The insides of the main doors and cargo doors were covered with fabric also. Other than leaving them bare, this is the lightest and easiest way to finish the inside of the doors.
Here is one of the main doors covered:
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Some folks have had troubles with getting their door skins to fit after shrinking
the fabric on the inside of the doors. If you put the
1/4" tube reinforcement as shown in the July 1998
Bear-Tracks newsletter, you shouldn't have a problem. I shrunk this
fabric to 350 degrees and my door skins clecoed right back in place with
no problem afterword.
The aft cargo door is curved inward, so requires either rib lacing or rivets
to shape the fabric to the door. I chose to use some fabric rivets (larger
head) for mine:
The fabric was riveted after attachment to the door frame but BEFORE shrinking. I found that very little shrinking was needed after riveting the fabric to the frame. I only went to 250 degrees on this one and it was plenty tight.
The holes for the rivets were pre-drilled prior to fabric covering.
Reinforcement tape was placed, holes were poked through with needle,
and then the rivets as shown here:
The inside of forward cargo door was covered next. I started by riveting
the door skin in place. Then the door was placed on the table top with
the inside facing up. An aluminum plate was fabricated to act as a guide
for the inside door latch handle. It was Pop riveted in place as shown
below:
The fabric was then positioned and then glued to the door skin just around
the window opening with about a 2" wide band of Poly-Tack.
In the above picture you can see where I marked a line where the glue should
stop. The line was made by clecoing the inner window channel in place
and then marking around it.
Once the Poly-Tack had dried thoroughly, the fabric was glued and trimmed
around the door frame as shown below:
Finally, the fabric was heat shrunk and readied for Poly Tone:
