{"id":880,"date":"2010-10-28T17:07:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T17:07:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-07T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T07:10:16","slug":"drilled-canopy-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/10\/28\/drilled-canopy-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilled Canopy Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"

I repositioned the canopy and clamped it down. \u00a0I then used a 1\/8″ plexiglass drill bit to drill through the canopy, aiming for the 3\/32″ holes already in the frame.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, the front of the canopy pulled up about 3\/32″ of an inch on the left and 2\/32″ on the right. \u00a0This is a pretty common problem, and the fix is fairly easy. \u00a0The canopy can be pushed down flush with very little force, so I’ll fabricate a couple of aluminum clips that can be riveted to the canopy frame to keep it tight while I lay up the fiberglass along the front joint.<\/p>\n

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Now that the canopy position is locked in, I laid up some masking tape to define the area to be painted. \u00a0I’m going to paint the part of the skin that is under the canopy a flat black to avoid glare.<\/p>\n

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I trimmed along the line I defined a couple of days ago, this allows the canopy to transition more gently from the skin to the side channels.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a shot from a different angle showing the gradual transition. \u00a0This is a much better solution than extending the notch forward.<\/p>\n

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I repositioned the canopy and clamped it down. \u00a0I then used a 1\/8″ plexiglass drill bit to drill through the canopy, aiming for the 3\/32″ holes already in the frame. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, the front of the canopy pulled up about 3\/32″ of an inch on the left and 2\/32″ on the right. … 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-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}