Brief Description: Continue Constructing Last Gear Door
I worked all day on the installation of this door. It is now being comverted from the cabinet hinge version into the finished version as on the pilot side of the aircraft. The rear side of it was finished up and then all the work for mounting the new hinge system was started. Lots of measuring and figuring and then still one can make errors with this. It will end up right in the end. The finished version uses the pictured hinges I designed on my CAD system and then had cut by a service. They are super strong and very overbuilt, but that is the way to do it if you are not calculating everything. They have grease points as can ne seen. The hinge pin is a 3/16" stainless rod that will have a rectangular stainless plate welded to the front end. The pin sits in an appropriate 3/16" ID brass tube set up that will be glued in the door. The door can not move fore or aft or up and down with this set up. It can only rotate. The hinge pin assembly can be removed by taking out 1 stainless steel machine screw that holds the plate. The only other item that is removed to relaese the door is 1 locknut on the control arm. None of these parts are on the original Barracuda plans. They are all engineered to fit, hence a large amount of additional custom work.
View Of My Old Hinge Assembly
View of Entire Old Hinge Assembly
View of My New Custom Hinge - THe top hole allows for the installation of a grease fitting.
