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**Ryan** · 07-17-2012, 13:59

Re: bc12d doors

Complicated answer, in short no the doors do not, but the door frames do. So therefore yes they can. Be careful there are BC12D doors that have wood door frames and ones that fit metal door frames. The door that fit wood frames are curved outwards at the top, while the doors that fit the metal door frames are straight at the top when looking at the door from front to rear. This would be true through F-21s to my knowledge.

**Hank Jarrett** · 07-17-2012, 14:41

Re: bc12d doors

I guess the real question is what kind of doors and fuselage are you working with and what do you want to do? There are spare doors around of almost ever kind and the others can be built. Depending on where you are with the fuselage you can also make a frame to fit your door, or the one you want. What do you have and what are you trying to get?
Hank

**Bird** · 07-18-2012, 10:36

Re: bc12d doors

41 prewar and the doors are not in the greatest shape and I saw the ones on ebay, was just wondering.

**Hank Jarrett** · 07-18-2012, 11:28

Re: bc12d doors

Why not put tube doors back on? They are lighter and fit fine. Your tube doors would have to be pretty bad to not be repairable. How far is Kannapolis, NC from Virginia Beach? I have good doors for making fixtures and a great welded here.
Hank

**Bird** · 07-27-2012, 14:12

Re: bc12d doors

Hank are you near the Suffolk county airport?, I think I worked a towercrane job at the paperplant there 5 years ago, Remember a war bird out front near road

**Hank Jarrett** · 07-27-2012, 14:35

Re: bc12d doors

I am at SFQ and the airport was also the home to the Fighter Factory (they still have their maintenance hangar there) so I get distracted on a regular basis by little interesting airplanes like an ME-262, Spitfire MK-9 couple of FW-190s, mustangs, P-40s, MiGs....... you know, the kind of planes that fly in and out of all small airports. ;-) The warbirds change on a daily basis. Come on up and we can check with the welder on fixing those doors.
Hank

**Hank Jarrett** · 10-04-2012, 14:13

Re: bc12d doors

There was a Taylorcraft door posted on E-bay today at

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/taylorcraft-door-/120995048603?pt=Motors_Aviation_Parts_Gear&hash=item1c2bddec9b&vxp=mtr

It is different than any one I have ever seen. It is a welded steel door with square tube and a completely different door latch mechanism. Anybody ever seen one like it? What model was it used on?
Hank

**mike lutz** · 10-04-2012, 15:54

Re: bc12d doors

to me that looks more like a Funk door.Doesnt look tall enough for a T-craft.Just my two cents worth.

**Hank Jarrett** · 10-04-2012, 16:22

Re: bc12d doors

He may not know what he has. The more I look at the door latch the more I like it. Much more complex than ours, but moves the handle forward where you can reach it and not be moving it when you don't want to. I also like the lock.
The first photo really looks short, but I think it could be the angle of the photo. I have seen Funks (neat plane) but never seen the door with no covering. Amazing performance for a plane that basically had a Ford Model A motor!
Hank

**swoeric** · 10-04-2012, 18:27

Re: bc12d doors

coul;d somebody post or pm me some tube door pics...id like to have a set that i can have all clear

**Hank Jarrett** · 10-05-2012, 05:41

Re: bc12d doors

The tube frames in these pictures are pre-war. The ones with two diagonal tubes are from my 45 Deluxe (I tend to lump the 45 planes in with the pre-war ones since there are SO MANY pre-war parts on them)
The door with the front edge up (Ivory over Red) is a 41 Deluxe wood door. Really nice feel, quiet and almost impossible to build. Feels like an antique car door when it closes.
The inner and outer pictures of the sheet metal doors are from a post war (~1946) plane.
There are loads of other differences in handles and windows too and this is just the side by side planes.

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