The day started with a small victory; Yesterday I broke off the threaded portion of a threaded drill bit in my 90* drill motor while drilling the hole in the roll bar to roll bar brace, leaving the threaded portion stuck in the head of the drill. This morning I was able to carefully drill down into the broken piece with a #30 bit in my drill press, then remove the piece with an eze-out. My favorite dotco is back in business! Trimmed the excess material off the lower end of the brace per print. Cleaned up and painted the raw edges. I also continued working on the canopy latch assembly. I filed about another 1/16" off the tube it rides in on the canopy frame and at this point it is aligned vertically so that the latch engages the post on the roll bar nicely. The plans have you drill a couple of 1/16" holes in the latch for attaching a spring, and I didn't have a 1/16" bit. Had a #50, but thats a little bigger than called for. It would have worked, but seemed a little shoddy, so I ran to Ace and was able to pick up a #54 bit which is a little smaller than the 1/16" called out, but will look prettier on the finished product, so that's what I went with. I also did some preliminary marking on the latch to show where the engaging notch will eventually need to be enlarged to in order to engage the roll bar pin properly. Carefully trimmed the fwd edge of the canopy back to the dimension I had marked yesterday (3/32 fwd of the fwd canopy frame bow) with a 120 grit flapper disk in my angle ryobi. I then smoothed out the rough edge by block sanding with 120 grit. I ran out of time, so that was it for today. Next time I'll finish all edges to 400 grit to get rid of any residual scratches and hopefully eliminate any stress risers that might lead to future cracks, and then move on to final fitting of the canopy. I will be so glad when this canopy is done.