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<\/a><\/center>Here’s the finished bead of Sikflex. \u00a0The rear window is officially done!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/center>With all the adhesive work done, I can start putting some of the interior in place. \u00a0I can’t install everything since I’ll still need access to do the final assembly, but I can go ahead and install some things that won’t need to come out. \u00a0First up is the seat belts.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/center>Next, I installed the upper side panels. \u00a0The lower panels can’t go in yet since the seat pans have to come out to attach the wings. \u00a0I also installed the pilot’s seat so that I could adjust the seat belts.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/center>In addition to sanding the skin in front of the canopy, I sanded the edge of the canopy in preparation for fiberglassing. \u00a0Also, the front edge of the canopy was sitting a bit above the canopy frame, so I fabricated three small clips that I pop riveted to the canopy frame to hold the edge down. \u00a0I painted the back side of these black so that they won’t show through on the inside.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/center>Here’s a closeup of one of the clips. \u00a0The outer two pop rivets are hidden inside by the canopy frame brace, but the center one will show on the inside, so I’ll have to paint it.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/center>I mixed up some dry micro with some black pigment and filled the gap between the leading edge of the canopy and the skin.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/center>I impregnated some 8.9oz satin weave cloth with epoxy and marked strips of widths in 1\/4″ increments from 1\/2″ to 2″.<\/p>\nPro-Tip:<\/strong> I really should have added some black pigment to the epoxy used in these strips. The color is very apparent from inside the plane.<\/p>\n I came out this morning and pulled all of the spacers holding the rear window in place. \u00a0I closed the canopy to check the fit and I’m super happy with the fit. \u00a0I needed to apply sealant to both the front and back of the joint, so I climbed into the baggage area. \u00a0This was … 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-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","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=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3917,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/center>I laid the layers of glass from narrowest to widest to create a nice transition from the skin to the canopy. \u00a0This will still need a bunch of filler to make the transition have a uniform radius, but this will provide the strength for the fairing.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"