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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 03:44:53 EDT
Subject: Door Seal and Axle Shims--LIV
To: toucan@the-i.net, lancair.list@olsusa.com
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"Now, if they've fixed the angle of the frames so that the door seal doesn't
push the door outwards, we'll be in bidness, as we say down here."

Jim Cameron, 

It is two AM, I am awake with a pinched nerve in my neck.  I just read your 
letter, and it made me forget all about the severe pain radiating down my 
arm--thank you.  It proves that humor is the best medicine.

Since the factory has a long history of being clueless about its product, I 
can assure you that they are either not aware that their seal pushes out the 
door, or that if they are aware of it, they will ignore it in favor of 
putting out the latest and greatest new design project.

When they fix the bent axle bolts on the first seventy or so LIV kits that 
had to have axle shims added to straighten a factory boo boo, then, and only 
then will I think that they are capable of such progressive thinking.

(Adding two 2.8  degree shims to each axle bends the four bolts only a little 
bit...._)

I have been waiting five years for them to do the right thing about this, 
with absolutely dead silence from the factory.  

Therefor,  for them to realize or admit that the door seal is a problem, 
seems to me to be quite a stretch.

However,  it is now your absolute duty to hound them till they admit it and 
fix it.  To not do this would be letting your fellow builders down.

Then, in five years you may have your very own case of pinched nerve in your  
neck, and you can sit up all night and wonder what other safety issue your 
fellow builders are unaware of. 

Well, maybe an eight or so square foot door bulging out into a Bernoulli slip 
stream at  three hundred knots is not a safety issue.  We have only had two 
incidents so far, and they are attributed to poor window preparation, not to 
the fact that the inclined plane of the frame allows the seal to deform the 
whole door into the slip stream.

Respectfully submitted,

David Jones
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