{"id":1841,"date":"2018-02-12T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2018-02-12T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:22:13","slug":"canopy-filler-at-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1841","title":{"rendered":"Canopy Filler at Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I placed a bead of electrical tape around the perimeter of the canopy so the flox doesn&#8217;t stick to the windscreen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0505.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1844\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0505-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0505-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0505-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0505-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a gap at the front.\u00a0 As hard as I tried to get rid of this it seems like this is fairly normal.\u00a0 When the canopy is sitting on the frame for trimming it&#8217;s not squeezed inwards on the sides.\u00a0 When you finally drill it to the frame the canopy gets sucked in on the sides and the result is the front pops up about this high.\u00a0 Easily fixed with a thick bead of flox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0507.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1843\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0507-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0507-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0507-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0507-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I laid up the flox while the canopy was on the airframe so that it&#8217;s in it&#8217;s final shape on the fuselage.\u00a0 First bead applied here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0509.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1845\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0509-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0509-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0509-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0509-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I placed a bead of electrical tape around the perimeter of the canopy so the flox doesn&#8217;t stick to the windscreen. There is a gap at the front.\u00a0 As hard as I tried to get rid of this it seems like this is fairly normal.\u00a0 When the canopy is sitting on the frame for trimming <a href='http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1841' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841"}],"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=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}