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Date: 09-12-2026
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Number of Hours: 2.60
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Short Description: Canopy - Serious Skirt Side Sanding
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Began sanding out the waviness along the left canopy skirt edge. Since I previously added an epoxy/flox backer to the interior side, I can now safely sand down the exterior high spots to achieve a completely uniform thickness where the skirt meets the fuselage. Used a long Perma-Grit block and 100-grit sandpaper mounted to a 30" aluminum angle to keep the bottom edge straight and flat. Along the front left corner, sanding brought it down through the pink gelcoat/skin layer, leaving the structural epoxy/flox matrix exposed as expected. Once the bottom margin was straight and true, I applied 2-part SuperFil to the exterior surface and filled two low valleys along the rivet lines where the skirt attaches to the frame. Left the fill to cure before final block sanding.
Making dust and messing up the shop, but 100-degree heat outside keeps the sanding operations strictly indoors for now. Progress continues on the skirt.
Steadily Sanding Side Skirt
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Note the front bottom edge is now uniform in thickness
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SuperFil left to cure
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