New camera, door skins part 1

We will have a guest artist spending a week with the U.H. Gamelan, giving a bunch of lessons, and I decided that I wanted to video my sessions. My old Nikon 5400 can shoot video, but it is low res 4:3 and the battery is going. Time to buy a new camera. Okay, an excuse. Been looking for months and wanted a Nikon 1. Now I had to choose between the U1 and the V1, decided to go with the V1. Still learning how to use it, including how to upload to Flickr. I have been reducing the image size from the 5400 to 800x600, plenty good enough for this blog, but so far I have not figured out how to do that for the V1, so these pics are full size.







Decided that since the door skins are here I should dig into the doors, and come back to the floor. Comparing the skin to the actual door I found some things to do before removing the old skin. Removed two rubber pads that act as stops for the door handle. Removed the lock, and the side mirror mount. Measured the spacing of the holes for the trim:

LH door

#1  5/8 in. from fwd edge

#2  7 1/2 in. from #1

#3  9 3/8 in. from #2

#4  9 3/8 in.

#5  9 7/16 in.

#6  5/16 in. from rear edge

Last but not least, I got started peeling back the lip of the door skin. I must admit that by the time I had to leave, my hand was tired and sore from working the pliers. Hopefully I will get one off next Saturday.