{"id":928,"date":"2010-07-25T17:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-05T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T07:26:58","slug":"worked-on-canopy-hinges-and-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/07\/25\/worked-on-canopy-hinges-and-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Worked on Canopy Hinges and Latch"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was working on the canopy hinge, my buddy Andre worked on the canopy latch. \u00a0The torque tube is positioned and clamped in place.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see that the finger on the end of the latch penetrates the hole in the seat back bulkhead. \u00a0After ensuring everything was positioned properly, we marked the position of the holes in the bushing blocks with a #30 bit.<\/p>\n

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After match drilling the C-619 spacer (aluminum spacer between the plastic blocks), I reinstalled the center subpanel and used bolts placed loosely through the holes to keep everything aligned.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a closeup showing how the aluminum spacer is sandwiched between the two plastic blocks. \u00a0The spacer is the exact width of the hinge bracket on the canopy.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I reinstalled the top skin to pull everything into its final position.<\/p>\n

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While I was working on the canopy hinge, my buddy Andre worked on the canopy latch. \u00a0The torque tube is positioned and clamped in place. Here you can see that the finger on the end of the latch penetrates the hole in the seat back bulkhead. \u00a0After ensuring everything was positioned properly, we marked the … 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-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}