{"id":888,"date":"2012-04-28T10:27:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T16:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2012-04-28T10:27:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T16:27:35","slug":"5-5-1-door-lift-gas-struts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/28\/5-5-1-door-lift-gas-struts\/","title":{"rendered":"5.5.1 Door Lift Gas Struts"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 3 of 16 in the series 05 - Doors \/ Windows<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Turns out that I was using the wrong length gas struts. Once Malcolm saw my pictures, he noticed that my strut was longer than he was used to seeing. So I picked up a 12″ (extended length) strut from McMaster-Carr, moved the hardpoint and voila! Door stays up when open and doesn’t distort when closed.<\/p>\n

Here’s a picture looking forward from the back of the plane with the door closed.<\/p>\n

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Notice how the direction the strut is pushing is inboard of the hinge. Before the direction of force was outboard of the hinge.<\/p>\n

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Outside view.<\/p>\n

Now I’ve just got to make the hardpoint permanent (it’s only temporary now), patch the holes in the B-pillar and repeat the whole install process on the pilot side door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 3 of 16 in the series 05 - Doors \/ Windows<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Turns out that I was using the wrong length gas struts. Once Malcolm saw my pictures, he noticed that my strut was longer than he was used to seeing. So I picked up a 12″ (extended length) strut from McMaster-Carr, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"series":[29],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44","series-05-doors-windows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}