My Friend John Ackerman was down from Prescott today and offered to come over and help me install the Windscreen. Late last night I taped off the upper fwd fuse and Scotchbrited and primed the top, then applied a coat of Semi-flat Black Krylon. I plan to cover the glareshield w/ Upholstery, but this is 'just in case' When John arrived we fabricated the 5 'fingers' out of .032" to hold the bottom of the windscreen stationary, only we reasoned that 7 would be better, My windscreen dispite my best efforts isn't a perfect fit, and is sits up a little bit in the bottom center, so we figured a couple more clips could help hold it down a bit. After a couple of dry run rehersals w/ John, we mixed up the flox/cabosil/epoxy and began applying it to the flange on the cabin cover. I used the same method as for the previous windows. i/e applying a generous amount and then using the popsicle stick to screed off a level amount using the cabin cover and the edge of the flange. this results in just about a perfect amount w/ not a lot of excess that is squeezed out and NO voids. Used the finger/clips made for the previous windows to help clamp/hold the wind screen in place for cure, Then we made a quick trip to the printer cartridge store to pick up some Black toner. the guy there found a letf over bottle and I bought it from him for $5. We used that to color the flox/epoxy mix that we used to fill the gap at the bottom between the windscreen and the glareshield. So that that anything from inside the cockpit will appear Black.
Test fit /w multiple dry runs.
Carbob blacked flox applied to bottom 'gap'
My friend, helper and builder of his own -10 John Ackerman.
