{"id":3004,"date":"2010-08-28T07:59:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T07:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2017-12-14T22:37:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T22:37:13","slug":"placed-canopy-on-the-fuselage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/08\/28\/placed-canopy-on-the-fuselage\/","title":{"rendered":"Placed Canopy on the Fuselage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started prepping the fuselage to receive the canopy. \u00a0First up was to cleco all of the skins back on. \u00a0Next, I put some masking tape over all of the places the canopy could touch to prevent scratching it. \u00a0Next, I marked a centerline down the cabin frame. \u00a0This will be the eventual split point between the forward canopy and the rear window.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center>I also taped up the ears on the canopy frame skin to prevent them from scratching up the inside of the canopy.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center>Finally, I finished cutting all four sides of the canopy, smoothed out the edges, and then placed the canopy on the fuselage. \u00a0This looks so fucking cool! \u00a0The edge finishing technique I’m using is to clean up the rough cut marks with the vixen file and then sand with 80 grit sandpaper to smooth things out. \u00a0I tried breaking a piece of the scrap without edge finishing, and it takes a surprising amount of force, so I’m confident that edge finishing to this degree is more than sufficient. \u00a0The shop was between 75\u00ba and 80\u00ba though, so that definitely helps keep the plexiglas soft.<\/p>\n

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I started prepping the fuselage to receive the canopy. \u00a0First up was to cleco all of the skins back on. \u00a0Next, I put some masking tape over all of the places the canopy could touch to prevent scratching it. \u00a0Next, I marked a centerline down the cabin frame. \u00a0This will be the eventual split point … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}