Canopy shimming
With the canopy skin clecoed to the frame, I installed the canopy back on to the fuselage. It’s difficult to determine whether there will be a skin interference problem when opening the canopy. Everything is just clecoed down at this point, but the canopy skin does look very low in the middle compared to the forward skin. It doesn’t hurt to put in shims now. I made a .032 shim for the middle 8 inches, tapering down to a .018 shim for 3″ outboard of that on each side.
This cool little gizmo showed up from EPM-AV. It’s a lot smaller than I thought it would be. It’s a stainless steel cabin heat selector box. Van’s sells one that’s aluminum, but this one stands up much better in case of a fire in the engine compartment. To me that’s worth the $40 in price differential.
