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Date:  9-18-2010
Number of Hours:  0.50
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Brief Description:  Final mating of canopy to frame 4

I also installed the little clips I made for the front of the canopy. I had hoped these would pull down the canopy where there was a slight gap, but they don't really do any pulling. Fortunately I don't have any significant gaps. But the canopy will vibrate a bit under these and at first I thought I would re make these clips to better hold, with pressure the canopy against the skin, but I'm not. Because I think the fiberglass strip that eventually goes here will also hold and stabalize the canopy to the frame/skin.

There is a trick to these little clips and that is to make a slanted portion on them so that the closer you rivet them to the canopy the greater the downward force is applied to the canopy against the frame skin. The pulled rivets hold pretty well.

I put 5 of these clips on the front of the canopy.

* * * * UPDATE THESE CLIPS ARE TOO LONG AND I HAD TO REMOVE THEM AND SHORTEN THEM * * * (See 9/20)
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Installed these little clips

Installed these little clips

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They hold pretty well

They hold pretty well

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Pulled rivets hold them down

Pulled rivets hold them down

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