Door Latches

It seems I will have touched every part in this plane before it flys again.  The doors are in very good condition but the latches were all rusted up.  They work but could not be left in such a state, so out they came.

 

The main tasks were to grit blast the steel parts, epoxy prime and paint them.  Clearly someone has taken these apart since they left the factory.  The oddest bits of safety wire were holding some of the pins instead of cotter pins.  The clevis pins at the handles had been replaced with aluminum rivets crudely cut to length with a hole drilled for the cotter pin.  The handle stops were missing completely, replaced by washers to fill the gap from the missing parts.  The latch base plate was also pop riveted to the aluminum cover plate.  Fixed up and properly assembled the latches work great.  I did one latch at a time to allow me to see how they were assembled once the parts were done.  The second latch was as easy as the first. Before they can go back in the missing stop at the handle end needs to be replaced.