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fitting new sills to a 1932 RP
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(05-02-2019, 11:02 AM)Smiley Wrote: Hi Martin, Ref your suggestion that I might have the doors of an RN on my RP, I have checked and I do have the correct doors. It would appear that the problem of the doors stick out at the bottom,goes a bit deeper. Cheers.

In that case you need to work out where the problem lies before doing anything drastic.  Have there been any major sheet-metal repairs to the bottoms of the A and/or B-posts?  

If the A-post looks OK, make a full-length template of its profile - the top 2/3 should be more-or less dead straight, with a continuous, gentle curve inwards for the lower 1/3, so that it throws in by 3/8" at the bottom.  If it doesn't do this, then repairs will be necessary before you think about the doors themselves.

If you're happy with the A-post, check your template against the leading and trailing edges of the doors and against the B-post.  They should all have identical profiles.  

Now make a horizontal template off the waistline of a door.  The top and bottom profiles of the doors should match this.

Hopefully, you'll then know where the problem(s) is(are).  My guess is that the bottoms of the B-posts will be out and the door frames will prove to have been badly repaired.  

New frame kits are available, but I'd better not push the commercial any further!
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fitting new sills to a 1932 RP - by Smiley - 03-02-2019, 10:04 PM
RE: fitting new sills to a 1932 RP - by Smiley - 03-02-2019, 10:49 PM
RE: fitting new sills to a 1932 RP - by Smiley - 05-02-2019, 11:02 AM
RE: fitting new sills to a 1932 RP - by Martin Prior - 05-02-2019, 12:00 PM
RE: fitting new sills to a 1932 RP - by Smiley - 05-02-2019, 01:21 PM
RE: fitting new sills to a 1932 RP - by Dave Mann - 05-02-2019, 04:00 PM

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