1st task was to drill and pop rivet the door brace stiffeners after they had cured. I put flush head rivets in instead of the LP4-3's. I'm going to cover Them with headliner anyway, but just didn't want the 'bumps' to show. They are slightly weaker than the LP4-3's but in my 'infinate wisdom' I don't think it will matter much. Then a quick trip to West Marine to pick up some SLOW hardner to allow for a little longer pot life. Used packaging tape to protect the cabin/fuse frame/skins from the wet epoxy 2-3 widths seems to be enough. Cut som HD garbage bags to lay up the parabeam (pretty neat stuff!) which wetted out easily.Then with Judy's help. We brushed. wetted, smeared, clecoed, and otherwise joined the 2 Left door halves together and then got them placed on the fuse. I was a little stressed about the time, I mixed the epoxy in smaller batches so that there would be less heat in the 'pot' and with both of us working it really went fairly well. I didn't time exactly how long from the time we started brushing/smearing/spreading until we clecoed them together but I guess it must have been 45 mins to 1 hr. This is Defniately a 2 person job. Temp was 75 degrees. As you can see from the pics, I used a variety of clamps tp get the doors to sit flush with the Cabin door frame, it was flush all around without the need for Duct Tape. could have easily done the other door today but not enough clamps, so that's tomorrows project. BTW my Seats arrived from Classic Aero Today. Wow!!!! I just sent them my seat frames 1 1/2 weeks ago so I wasn't expecting them back so soon. They look GREAT THANKS Luke!
Left Door shells joined and clecoed to fuse/cabin for curing
