Before work, I sanded back the canopy so that it didn’t hit the joggle. The canopy can now be pulled down tight against the frame. Now that the canopy is sitting down all the way, the sides will need a minor trim, but I’m going to hold off on that for the moment.
Before doing the final trimming on the canopy and drilling it to the frame, I want to finish up the canopy frame so that everything will be in precisely it’s final position. First up is to prep the canopy frame reinforcement. These pieces further tie the forward canopy frame channel to the top skin and make the frame far more rigid. I spent about an hour deburring these. There are a ton of nooks and crannies.
The holes need to have flanges to stiffen them. Following the advice of several builders, I quickly fabricated this little tool out of some scrap angle and the rollers from the Avery hand rolling tool.
I bent the flanges in one of the pieces. This was pretty hard on my hands, so I stopped after the first piece. I’ll finish these up tomorrow and then start trying to fit them to the frame. It’s really amazing how much these flanges stiffen these pieces.
