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Matt Dralle
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 Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:34 pm Post subject: Canopy Install (Part 1) |
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At 04:57 PM 1/31/2010 Sunday, you wrote:
| Quote: | Looks really nice Matt:
Isint the fairing supposed to go OVER the canopy skirt though? They may have changed it since my first 8. I am getting close to doing this as well. Got any good pics of the canopy fit up and cut?
Did you bond your canopy or screws?
Thanks
AL Grajek
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Here are a few (!) pictures of the canopy installation (second time around).
Matt
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algrajek
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:45 am Post subject: Canopy Install (Part 1) |
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Thanks for all the great photos Matt!
They will be a big help. How do you decide HOW MUCH to trim at the front. I see your line is about an inch wide. I was thinking of just trimming little by little till it fit( lot of work).
Al
[quote] Date: Sun C 31 Jan 2010 17:32:19 -0800
To: rv8-list(at)matronics.com
From: dralle(at)matronics.com
Subject: RE: Canopy Install (Part 1)
At 04:57 PM 1/31/2010 Sunday C you wrote:
>Looks really nice Matt:
>Isint the fairing supposed to go OVER the canopy skirt though? They may have changed it since my first 8. I am getting close to doing this as well. Got any good pics of the canopy fit up and cut?
>Did you bond your canopy or screws?
>Thanks
>AL Grajek
Here are a few (!) pictures of the canopy installation (second time around).
Matt
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Matt Dralle
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 8:22 pm Post subject: Canopy Install (Part 1) |
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Well, on the second canopy I kind of cheated. I just used the first one and measured all the way round plus about .5". You're right, though, in that basically you just start cutting a little bit at a time until you finally get to the right amount. I think I took the canopy on/off about 8 times with 8 cuts to finally get to the right length. Here's my log entry on the original canopy fitting (10 log entries) starting here:
http://www.mykitlog.com/users/display_log.php?user=MattsRV8&project=638&category 973&log=67122&row 54
Definitely use the AN version of those rivnuts, though. ACS has them. Those Stanley versions I show in Part 08 are shit.
Matt
At 07:34 AM 2/1/2010 Monday, you wrote:
| Quote: | Thanks for all the great photos Matt!
They will be a big help. How do you decide HOW MUCH to trim at the front. I see your line is about an inch wide. I was thinking of just trimming little by little till it fit( lot of work).
Al
> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:32:19 -0800
> To: rv8-list(at)matronics.com
> From: dralle(at)matronics.com
> Subject: RE: Canopy Install (Part 1)
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> At 04:57 PM 1/31/2010 Sunday, you wrote:
> >Looks really nice Matt:
> >Isint the fairing supposed to go OVER the canopy skirt though? They may have changed it since my first 8. I am getting close to doing this as well. Got any good pics of the canopy fit up and cut?
> >Did you bond your canopy or screws?
> >Thanks
> >AL Grajek
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> Here are a few (!) pictures of the canopy installation (second time around).
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> Matt
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