Painted canopy frame
Today was a major session of deburring, dimpling, countersinking, prepping, and painting the canopy frame. The only tricky part was countersinking the forward blocks for the struts. The best way to handle those is to drill them to your smallest countersinking cutter #21 or smaller. Then countersink the frame and block together. Then drill the blocks to #21 and tap them. The holes in the canopy frame will be much larger than #12 from the countersinking.
One other thing I did was to remove the ears from the canopy skin. It seems that everybody does this, and it makes sense.
I didn’t take many pictures, but there wasn’t much to see. Just lots of monotonous work.
I carefully painted all of the canopy frame parts and the inside of the canopy skin with the satin black Rustoleum that I’ve been using in the cabin. It looks quite good.
I’m definitely looking forward to getting the canopy done. From here it’s just riveting and assembly.