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Date:  5-1-2021
Number of Hours:  2.00
Manual Reference:  18-10
Brief Description:  Canopy frame outer skin prep

Quite despondent I find work to do around the house for a week, after coping with a very inconvenient work schedule. I'm working 0900-1700 for the first time in 40 years and freakin hating it! How do people cope with the indignity of the whole habitable part of the day slaving for the man. I don't know.

Reviewing the mess from my last day's work I note that there was never enough in the plans amount to cover my frame. Not sure if it is a Cosy Classic/Cozy IV thing, or the CC plans are just wrong, my flange is eating more CF than Uli could imagine, or I didn't order the right amount. I discover I have sufficient to make two complete plies, overlapping each side of the centerline with a nice staggered overlap, one of them out of three ovelapping bits. From the remains I have enough for the first 20 or so inches from the trailing edge, and the area around the hinge mounts from the leading edge, the side and up to but not including the flange. I deem it enough, as it looks to me from the CC plans that the whole CF thing is an afterthought, and I wonder if it is neccesary at all. I'm not an engineer, so I really shouldn't have an opinion...

Start to pre-cut the UND and BID, and note that the Colan UND I inherited from another builder will do the frame in one piece full width, and the BID will cover most on the diagonal. Both will be easier to apply off the roll, so I stop cutting.

Trimmed the area around the bottom rear corner of the turtleback, and added some extra core foam to ensure the flange will be deep enough. Applied some dry micro, underfilled, to fair in these bits.
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Salvaging CF

Salvaging CF

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Fine tuning the flange

Fine tuning the flange

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