I decided to recess the door hinge locations to lower the top of the hinges to be flush with the surrounding cabin top plus this was a chance to level the surface where the hinges attach. I then aligned the hinges per the plans and drilled the associated holes. I also dimpled the #30 holes in the tail cone skin plus drilled all three rivet doubler pieces for backing the inside of the cabin attach point. Worked 4 hours total, between Nov 14-15.

On Monday 12, 2012 after work I started working on the left door inner and outer shell by fooling the similar process used for the right door. I worked for 2.5 hours joining the two prices together.

Started working with the right side door halves by wetting out the Parabeam, a three dimensional weave. I brushed a thin coat of epoxy on the bag side of the inner and outer door shells where the Parabeam would be placed. I then placed the Parabeam in the proper locations and made sure the entire section of Parabeam was pushed into place. I then started working the flat sections that would be joined together when the door halves are finally positioned together using clecos. I used epoxy and cotton flox instead of cab-o-seal thinking that the cotton flox will keep the epoxy from running plus add some structural strength to the doors. I hope I did not make an incorrect assumption in that this should help strengthen the door. I spread a constant 1/16 think layer of the mixture on all the matting surfaces. The right door was hung on the cabin cover with clecos, duck tape, clamps, and some weights to mold to the cabin top on after sanding the matting surfaces earlier that morning. Total time was 6 hours on Sunday Nov 11th, 2012.

Since the cabin top was still nicely attached to the fuselage I decided to divert from Section 43 and jump to Section 45 to start work on the doors. I started out by trimming the inner and outer door halves. I sort of messed up and trimmed the outside shell to the scribe line instead of leaving it 3/4″ wider than the scribe line. I made clips to hold it all together during the joining process so I am not worried about it going to gather incorrectly. I did locate the index holes and drilled them #40 on both door halves. Once the door halves were trimmed I placed them onto the cabin top using the cleco holes to hold the door halves firmly to the fuselage and cabin top. I finished drilling the holes around the window opening at a spacing of 1.5 inches. I then removed the doors and separated the halves so I could fit the Gas Strut Attach Doublers to each inner door half. I mixed epoxy and cotton flox and applied it as described in the plans. Waiting for the epoxy to dry now. Worked 8 hours on November 10, 2012.