{"id":397,"date":"2013-12-24T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-13T02:37:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T02:37:36","slug":"finished-gluing-canopy-and-sta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/12\/24\/finished-gluing-canopy-and-sta\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished Gluing Canopy and Started Rear Window"},"content":{"rendered":"

I removed all of the masking so that I could open the canopy and climb inside to finish applying the adhesive. \u00a0Jenn caught a picture of me working.<\/p>\n

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This is a lousy picture, but I applied a bead of adhesive on both the inside and outside of the canopy frame bow.<\/p>\n

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After scraping most of the excess adhesive away with an aluminum scraper I fabricated with a small radius, I removed the tape that was defining both sides of the bead. \u00a0I used my finger dipped in mineral spirits to create a nice smooth fillet. \u00a0It’s not perfect, but I’m happy with it.<\/p>\n

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I still need to do a final trim of the front edge of the rear window, so I put some masking tape on the roll bar and marked the aft edge of the canopy.<\/p>\n

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After installing the rear window, I transferred this line to the rear window. \u00a0I’ll sand close to this line and then start the final fitting. \u00a0Van’s specifies a 1\/32″ gap between the canopy and rear window.<\/p>\n

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I removed all of the masking so that I could open the canopy and climb inside to finish applying the adhesive. \u00a0Jenn caught a picture of me working. This is a lousy picture, but I applied a bead of adhesive on both the inside and outside of the canopy frame bow. After scraping most of … 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-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","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=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}