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Final fitting of windscreen. Sikaflexed windscreen.

Time: 6 hours.

Installed canopy latch. Adjusted Nylon Blocks.

Time: 6 hours.

Drilled and installed screws to canopy rails.

Time: 4 hours.

I checked the shape of the C-763 Slide Spacer against the full-scale template on DWG 41 as the part supplied in my kit varied slightly, so I carefully adjusted C-763 to match the template.

I completed the rear slider track assembly by positioning, drilling, and riveting the C-762 and C-763 parts together per DWG 43, Section H-H.

Make sure that you are not changing the shape of C-763 as you are attaching C-762 to it. Lay the track assembly in place approximately centered on the rear fuselage top skin. Bend the tab in the F-7112 skin down to allow the track assembly to rest on the skin. See DWG 43, Detail J.

I then slid the C-661 block onto the track and held it in place on the fuselage with duct tape.

I installed the Wd-640 Canopy frame on the fuselage by inserting the rollers in the tracks through their open aft ends and inserting the bolt through the C-661. I slid the frame forward until it met the roll bar. The flanges of the Wd644 roller brackets were to be the first part of the frame assembly to touch the roll bar.

Time: 8 hours.