All replies appear to be valid approaches in a "new construction"
environment. As the proud owner of a 4 year old Europa, I now find that
the top rear corner of my doors has grown to a 1/2 inch gap (proud of
the fuselage for my Brit friends). Does anyone have any experience with
"reversing" the distortion of the doors? Some non-destructive method of
bringing the doors back to a flush position with the fuselage?
Regards,
Garry V. Stout
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul McAllister [mailto:paul.mcallister@qia.net]
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Door Gas Strut Mod.
<paul.mcallister@qia.net>
Hi William,
If you take a look at http://europa363.versadev.com/apr-02.html you can
see
what I have done. It includes some measurements which should be a good
starting point.
I copied this idea from Jim Nelson's Europa and it seems to work nicely.
Regards, Paul
http://europa363.versadev.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Mills" <combined.merchants@virgin.net>
Subject: Europa-List: Door Gas Strut Mod.
<combined.merchants@virgin.net>
>
> All,
> Some time ago on the forum a member came up with a good idea for
improving
the door strut operation. I seem to remember it involved the gas strut
operating a pair of hinged aluminium angle legs to open the door, so
that
all the force of the gas strut was contained by the aluminium angles
when in
the closed position and not by the corner of the door. If anyone has
done
such a mod I would very much like to hear from them. Also, is there a
method to persuade the door corners back to the correct shape?
> Best wishes,
> William
>
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