I just had to design and build another different kind of teardrop trailer. My latest creation is a teardrop shaped like the Good Year Blimp. However, I am having a real problem with the hatch lid and it's hinge. The hatchlid fits just fine, but when I bent the piano hinge around the curve on the roof and screwed it down to the roof and to the hatch lid, I can't get the damned thing open. No matter how I try, it seems to bind and won't move more than an inch or so. What am I doing wrong? Piano hinges may not be the answer, besides they leak, due to their joints every 1/2 inch or so.
All of the piano hinges on my other TDs have worked just fine, but this one has me stumped. I guess I flunked engineering, so I may have to trash the whole thing, if someone can't fill me in about my bendable, curved, impossable hatch-lid lifting proceedures. Another problem I fear I will have would be fighting this same situation when I build the door on the curved side. Ugh, this stinks and trying to solve this problem makes my head hurt, I'm too old for this crap.
Roly