Dan and Netters: Well, you were right-sort-of!
I worked all day on the canopy. After I floxed in place the aft frame, and canopy sills, and everything dried overnight, it still wasn;t nearly torsionally rigid enough for my like-ing, So I added a ply of BID over the canopy sills and forward. This helped some, but still not rigid enough. I bought a 2' x4' piece of 1 inch Lasta-foam ($35 !!!) and fabricated an "H" frame in the area forward of the canopy. I floxed it into position, and added 1 ply of BID over it on the bias to the ply below it. The "H" frame is bonded to the BID ply with 1 ply of 2 inch tape and flox. That really made the whole structure rigid now. I also installed 9 MS21075-08 Platenuts into the Spinner Bulkhead using Hi-Tigue solid rivets. After finishing the flange (Scoth-Brite and Alodine) you can't even see where the rivet heads are! I actually sat in my airplane today for the first time doing a canopy fit. Plenty of headroom, Michelle caught me making airplane noises (just taxi-ing!!!) I accomplished my goal: Build all of the Fuselage Top by 2004. It's all built, fiberglass-wise. Onto making hinges, and installing the latches..... Keep Building! Scott Cable KR-2S # 735 Wright City, MO [email protected] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003
