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6/11-6/12/10 - Doors - 10 hrs

Once I had the door latch situation under some control, I started to pay attention to how well the doors sat against the side of the cabin top.

While the cabin top is formed pretty well, the doors are more flimsy and don't match up perfectly to the cabin top. So, based on some other builders' experience, I decided to level the doors and reduce the gap around the door opening.

I started by putting packing tape around the door opening as a release agent. Then I sanded the door itself to give the filler something to grip.

I spoke to Grady Oneal at GLO Custom Aircraft. He is the one that painted my RV-9A, and who will eventually paint this plane. He strongly suggested I use this product for leveling the cabin and doors. It's called Dyna-Glass, and I got it from Spruce.

It is a filler that is reinforced with strands of fiberglass. It cures quickly, so I could only mix up a small batch at a time, but it was easy to work with.

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