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Build log for an RV-10

By
Jae Chang
web@jline.com

Contents (Index)
These are links to the major kits for the project.

Section 45: Door Struts (10 hours)

I ended up redoing the strut bracket. The first attempt, i tried to level the bottom of the strut bracket, as was depicted in the plans. The bracket does fit nicely around the door frame this way. However, the problem is that the bolt for the strut interferes with the door frame. The plans have you notching the door frame to allow everything to fit.

I ended up having to notch so much of the bracket, that I had to create 2 parallel notches for the bracket almost to the bottom of the rain gutter in the door frame. Rain would inevitably leak through those notches, at some point way way way in the future.

Thus, I elected to fill those notches up, fill in the bolt holes as well, and realign the bracket, redrill and renotch. This meant moving the bracket futher outboard and slightly up. You want to make sure not to move the bracket TOO far up, or it will interfere with the bolts holding the door hinge to the door when the door is closed, as is shown below in the photos.

Unfortunately, I couldn't open both doors at the same time for the last photo.

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