{"id":1203,"date":"2016-01-24T15:29:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T23:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2016-01-24T15:35:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T23:35:01","slug":"showplanes-canopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"Showplanes Canopy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Measured to make sure the canopy frame was in the correct location. \u00a0One measurement threw me off for a bit until I figured it out “I think”. \u00a0The fore\/aft position is specified as positioning the forward edge of the embedded foam core 3\/4 inch behind the aft edge of the 821PP skin. \u00a0If I do that there seems to be very little left on the canopy frame to wrap around the aft portion of the fuselage. \u00a0I placed the aft honeycomb bulkhead stiffener in place and realized that it gets glassed in place where there is no foam or aft of the foam inserts on the side and aft of the shelf the plexiglass sits in. \u00a0I eventually came up with 1 inch behind the 821PP skin as it allows the bulkhead to sit aft of the plexiglass recess and still leaves enough skin on the aft fuselage. \u00a0It’s fiberglass. \u00a0It can be fixed if it’s off too much.<\/p>\n

The plans have you measure and mark the right side and they want you to leave the instrument panel\u00a0cover off to do this, which seems strange until you realize you need to mark the underside of the canopy frame at the 821PP skin as well because you need to cut that off too. \u00a0Just saves you some time. \u00a0I made “two trips” if you will since I left the panel cover on when I marked the right side and had to take it off and then mark the front.<\/p>\n

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Mark and trim right side and front only. \u00a0Trimming the forward edge requires the use of a die grinder or similar as it’s just too thick for tin snips. \u00a0You trim the left side after it’s mounted on the hinge.<\/p>\n

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Right side and leading edge trimmed and sanded to fit perfectly.<\/p>\n

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Back drilling the hinge. \u00a0I used a flexible drill extension to back drill all the rivet holes with a slightly undersized bit. \u00a0The outside edge of the hinge is even with the skin. \u00a0I final drilled everything and it came out perfect.<\/p>\n

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Hinge from the inside. \u00a0I still have to remove 3\/16 from the bottom edge of the canopy before I can drill the hinge to the canopy.<\/p>\n

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Measured to make sure the canopy frame was in the correct location. \u00a0One measurement threw me off for a bit until I figured it out “I think”. \u00a0The fore\/aft position is specified as positioning the forward edge of the embedded foam core 3\/4 inch behind the aft edge of the 821PP skin. \u00a0If I do […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,8,11,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}