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rstone4(at)hot.rr.com
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject: Canopy Block

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      Those of you who live in  the south as I do are well aware of the extremes of heat we experience during  the summer months and when taxiing or doing your power-on pre-flight the heat  becomes unbearable.  The block you see in the picture I have enclosed is an  item I dreamed up to keep the heat down during all ground operations in my  ZodiacXL.  Even with one of the Koger sun shades the cockpit gets very hot  on the ground.

  

 Tracy Stone

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craig(at)craigandjean.com
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject: Canopy Block

Is there some kind of hold-down for the canopy in case of a  tail wind?

  

 -- Craig

  

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bryanmmartin

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject: Canopy Block

I bought a piece of steel strap from the local Ace hardware store. It 

was about 3/16" thick and an inch wide and had holes in it at regular 

intervals. I enlarged a hole at one end to fit over the latch pin on my 

canopy rail. I bought a replacement latch pin from the "Help" display at 

a local auto parts store and installed this pin in the other end of my 

steel strap. Now when I want to prop open the canopy of my Zodiac while 

taxing, I stick the latch pin on the end of my steel strap into the 

canopy latch and slip the hole on the other end over the latch pin on 

the canopy rail. I think I paid less than ten dollars for the parts and 

the assembly only weighs a few ounces and takes up very little space. 

Works like a charm.



robert stone wrote:

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		   Members,

      Those of you who live in the south as I do are well aware of the 

 extremes of heat we experience during the summer months and when taxiing 

 or doing your power-on pre-flight the heat becomes unbearable.  The 

 block you see in the picture I have enclosed is an item I dreamed up to 

 keep the heat down during all ground operations in my ZodiacXL.  Even 

 with one of the Koger sun shades the cockpit gets very hot on the ground.

  

-- 

Bryan Martin
	


Zenith 601XL N61BM

Ram Subaru, Stratus redrive

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