Hired a wrecker truck to move the airplane to my hangar at Felts Field.
Time: 4 hours.
Moved Aircraft to Airport
Category: 5 – Canopy
Canopy Cover
Designed and fabricated canopy cover.
Time: 8 hours.
Windscreen Installation – 5
Deburred fairings and cleaned, primed and applied SIKAFLEX and installed them on the windscreen.
Time: 6 hours.
Windscreen Installation – 4
Drilled fairings to fuselage and dimpled and countersank the holes.
Time: 6 hours.
Windscreen Installation – 3
Made card stock pattern and used it to cut out right side fairing for lower windscreen fairing. Used 2×6 cut on a curve to hold fairings and used a gadget with rollers to bend flanges on fairings.
Time: 6 hours.
Windscreen Installation – 2
Made card stock pattern and used it to cut out aluminum fairing for windscreen-canopy gap.
Time: 6 hours.
Windscreen Installation
Final fitting of windscreen. Sikaflexed windscreen.
Time: 6 hours.
Canopy Rollers
Drilled fastening bolt holes for sliding canopy rollers. Ordered replacement nylon blocks to try again for better canopy closure.
Time: 6 hours.
Canopy Latch
Installed canopy latch. Adjusted Nylon Blocks.
Time: 6 hours.
Canopy Adjustment
Adjusted canopy height. Installed Nylon Blocks for rear of canopy.
Time: 8 hours.
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