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fredorosa(at)gmail.com
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 Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:23 pm Post subject: Cruiser door hinges |
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What is the correct orientation of the door hinge? Short side on door and long side on fuselage or vice versa?
It fits the recesses better with long side on fuselage and short side on door but I wonder if that would not provide
the door with enough clearance of the fuselage top. Need answer to proceed.
Al
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 6:21 pm Post subject: Cruiser door hinges |
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You are correct, you need the long side on the doors for clearance.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:38 am Post subject: Cruiser door hinges |
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4/22/2011
Hello Al, Long side on the doors will work better. If needed reshape the hinge halves so that they will fit well into the recesses.**
Mount the hinge halves into the fuselage recess first. As mentioned by Bill Schertz it is essential that the hinges line up in a 3 dimensional fashion so that they do not bind.
The way to accomplish this is to clamp the door end of the hinges onto a rigid bar (such as an aluminum angle) in an adjustable fashion. Then place the fuselage end of the hinges into the recesses on the fuselage and rotate the rigid bar as if the door was opening and closing. Adjust the position of the door end of the hinges on the bar until:
A) The fuselage end of the hinges sets properly into the fuselage recess.
B) There is no binding when the rigid bar is swiveled up and down simulating the door opening and closing.
Then fasten the hinges into the fuselage recesses and remove the rigid bar. When you build the doors in place on the fuselage (lots of fun) you can eventually fasten the door end of the hinges into place on the door.
'OC' Baker Says: "The best investment we can make is the time and effort to gather and understand knowledge."
**PS: I don't know what kind of hinges came with the 4 place kit and I don't recall what came with my KIS TR-1 kit (if any), but they were not satisfactory. What I wound up doing was having Vance Jaqua make me a set of aluminum hinges. You don't have that option, but you may want to explore getting different hinges if the ones that you have are not entirely suitable. Here is just one potential source:
http://www.guden.com/control-continue.aspx
A google search of aluminum hinges will reveal many other sources.
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mantafs(at)earthlink.net
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 5:43 am Post subject: Cruiser door hinges |
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The factory TR1 hinges were just short off the shelf hinges that you needed to rivet on extensions. The TR4 hinges are much nicer. I replaced the hinges on my TR1 with TR4 hinges that were modified to fit. I think Vance also did the modification for me.
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fredorosa(at)gmail.com
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:06 am Post subject: Cruiser door hinges |
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Thanks, glad I asked before I did it the other way around.
Al
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