TR2/3/3A wood next to the door on a tr3

I never could figure out what and why that strip or piece of paper/wood was used for next to the door on a tr3. I first thought it was a nailing strip, but why a nailer--- most all the other vinyl is screwed to the sheet metal with cup washers? Was it to make a finish weld on the B side?Plus that little piece of stuff is basically floating in this odd shaped channel, so it is not structural. Then I thought the stuff is “oakum,” and when oakum gets wet it swells up and seals. I remember my dad showing me that when I was a kid with pluming, now putting that striped piece of cardboard in that little channel makes senses; it is an oakum door seal, Genius.

My memory tells me that it was a nailer for the weather strip but my memory is not all that reliable.
Tom

I think it is intended to hold the fuzzy weather strip in place. The Dog Leg panel screws on in about 3 places down the "B" post.

If you have a trim kit and the dog leg piece comes with a bit of vinyl stapled to the back that is to fill in the gap between the bottom of the dog leg piece and the carpet.

David

Having removed several of those pieces, I can say that the purpose is for a tacking strip. I have no idea why they used the stuff that looks like twisted craft paper as a tacking strip. But I have pulled the tacks out and have seen no other function. In the past I have replaced it with wood strips. I will say that the wood is not flexible like the paper getting it into that slot.

Funny, Steve! We should put oakum all around the cockpit. It's definitely wood, but it's always a weird, twisted, wood.