{"id":881,"date":"2010-10-25T17:07:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:07:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-07T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T07:09:10","slug":"final-fitting-of-canopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/10\/25\/final-fitting-of-canopy\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fitting of Canopy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I taped the canopy down tight and marked the final trim lines on the side. \u00a0Afterward, I removed the canopy and used the belt sander to sand up to the lines.<\/p>\n

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Next, I laid out the holes that attach the canopy to the side channels and skirts. \u00a0I ended up using ~2 3\/32″ (instead of 2″ as the plans specify) since I lengthened the side skirts.<\/p>\n

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Pulling the side skins in tight against the side channels puts a lot of pressure at the forward end of the notch in the canopy skin. \u00a0I’m going to cut along the blue line a bit to allow the upper portion of the skin to flex downward and hopefully ease this transition to avoid any localized stress on the canopy which could lead to cracking.<\/p>\n

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I taped the canopy down tight and marked the final trim lines on the side. \u00a0Afterward, I removed the canopy and used the belt sander to sand up to the lines. Next, I laid out the holes that attach the canopy to the side channels and skirts. \u00a0I ended up using ~2 3\/32″ (instead 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-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","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=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}