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Jims RV-8
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Date:  8-24-2018
Number of Hours:  1.50
Manual Reference:  9-3
Brief Description:  Canopy Skirt #15, Middle cut – aft skirt

I had some rubbing at the aft canopy skirt where it drops over the canopy slide cap – so I took out my handy-dandy dremel cutoff tool and widened the opening. I also wanted to open up the anchor pin hole a bit in the anchor block in order to allow the canopy pin (hence, the canopy) to enter and egress the anchor block easier. To do that, I wanted to get the canopy assembly out of the way to get the drill in there. Canopy removed, pin hole drilled, canopy replaced.

I also decided to cut some more from the “middle” of the aft skirt to attain an ever so slightly better fit…will I ever be done with the canopy skirt? I only took off about 1/8” on the right and left sides (the middle) but then I had to remake the aluminum support sheet as the cleco/rivet holes are now closer together and I just can’t cut the middle out of the aluminum support. Got that cut, deburred, measured, and also got the new cleco/rivet holes drilled and deburred. All back to where I was… happy now.
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