Back to the canopy
Did various stuff on the plane today including connecting part of the cabin heat system, from the intake to the muff. I was going to hook the muff to the cabin heat selector, but it looks like it’ll be in the way of connecting up the mixture control cable.
For some reason, I didn’t paint the F-704 bulkhead when I touched up the paint in the cabin a while back. Not sure why. It doesn’t matter too much as I just ordered interior side panels. I decided to mask it off and paint it anyway.
I pulled out the canopy in order to work on the fairing at the front. It’s one of those things that I left unti “later.” Might as well get it done. I could actually completely finish the canopy. That would be nice. It seems like everything is partially finished.
I did the DanC trick of using some small tabs to hold down the canopy. My canopy ended up popping up a bit when I secured the sides. The clips held it down partially. I’ll fill the rest with epoxy.
I masked off a line along the plexiglass that looked good. I did a combination of using a 4″ radius (not 4″ diameter as the instructions indicate) cardboard disk to visual the fairing shape, measuring with a ruler, and just eyeballing a smooth curve. It turned out pretty good. I masked off the metal below as well just to minimize the mess. I sanded the metal and plexi with some 60 grit sandpaper. It’s tough scratching up something I spent so long trying to look perfect. The picture shows an intermediate step where I was using chunks of masking tape to mark the line.
