Works pretty good. But I was getting a sticking point when trying to open it. I discovered the welded spot on the latch was catching on the bottom of the block, so I rounded off that corner. That welded spot also hit the inside of the square hole and I had to make one of them slightly bigger.
Now the canopy goes up and down easliy and smoothly without worry of banging onto the canopy deck or banging against the side skins and bending something.
Oh yea, I added a second handle on the co-piot side. Just needs to be there.