Title: Canopy work
It was another warm day in the Twin Cities, perfect for drilling plexiglass, so "H", our longtime family friend agreed again to be the hobbit who got inside to hold the wood block against the canopy skirts. She did a fine job but when done, I noticed the edge distance on the left side was quite small. How is this possible? The canopy skirts are predrilled, the canopy was closed in its normal position; everything was as directed. No clue, and I'm not going to worry about it. I had someone coming for a camper rental demonstration hours later so I decided to just stay at the hangar and work. I deburred the new holes in the canopy, then drilled all the holes out to #27 and deburred them again. Then I countersunk all the holes in the canopy along the front bow. I drilled the canopy latch mechanism as intructed. I'll need to prime and paint the latch. And I drilled the canopy guide and countersunk it to fit a #8 screw. I'd done pretty much the same thing to the canopy latch after drilling out to a #19 as instructed. So I did the same thing to the blocks. That was stupid. First, an 8-32 tap takes a #27 hole, not a #19. So I ordered new blocks. They're backordered. So I think that pretty much concludes the canopy work for this year.


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