This entry is two days worth of work. Yesterday I assembled the main canopy latch, including a preliminary trim of the hook portion that engages the pin on the roll bar. I don't have the print in front of me and don't remember what they actually call that thing, but you get the idea. Final assembly requires a nylon washer on the exterior between the plexiglass and the exterior latch, and it wasn't in the parts bar with everything else. I had taken parts out of that bag previously, so I don't know if I lost it at that point or what, but I spent a while tossing the shop looking for the darn thing and never did find it. Pretty sure I can find a delrin washer that will work at Ace Hardware if it doesn't turn up. I still have to trim the handle shaft to the proper length, then drill and tap it for the exterior handle. Today I fabricated and installed the aft canopy mounting blocks. These delrin blocks have holes drilled in them to engage the pins on the canopy frame and the are parallel to absolutely nothing. The instructions tell you basically to lay out both these angles with a straight edge, but the print also calls out the angles as 5* and 23* respective to where the pin initially contacts the block. Ultimately, I decided that I had just as much chance of getting this right by following the print as by trying to mark a straight edge on twi different axes, is I borrowed a good drill press vise from work this morning and set up my drill press to the angles that were called out on the print. Did a trial run with a wooden block on the right side and it dropped right in, so I drilled the delrin, then readjusted the table for a mirror image on the left side. It took a couple of tries, but eventually I got a result I was happy with in the wood block, so I drilled the delrin for that side as well. Took everything apart, final sized the holes, countersunk where appropriate, and installed. After that, I noticed that when I engaged the main latch, the canopy aft blocks are snug enough that it was pulling the roll bar aft slightly, even with the fwd brace in place. Specifically, I could see the instrument panel flexing because it was actually pulling everything aft. This area will obviously be a lot more rigid when the fwd skin is installed, but I'm not crazy about all that flexing, so I filed out the latch hook a little more and it seems to be a lot better. If not, I'll likely have to make another latch because I'm pretty close to teh minimum dimension for that hook and can't really enlarge it much more. Overall, a good couple of days :)