Dan, Yeah, that's the beauty of Dana's suggestion. I love simple too. Sounds like your canopy is TOP Drawer, I glad you're making progress. Speaking of which.... My Lower Canopy Latches are installed. Along with lengths of 1/16" braided cable. The cable inserts into the end of the latch as is secured by the tyniest allen wrench in my toolbox. Man I like these latches! I'm adding fiberglass "T" stiffeners and angles to the forward "deck" skin. These T's and angles are already added to the forward canopy skin. I took a sample part with me to work the other day. A bunch of Strength Engineers work near my office. This one placed the T upside down between his desk and reference table, placed his upper body weight on it. He couldn't believe how strong it was! He didn't break or even make it crack!
The Forward "Deck" is only about 4 inches long! So do you still want to call it a forward deck? I'm also in the middle of making another tool out of foam to make an angle from. This angle after it's cured will be attached to the aft face of the firewall, and the inside of the forward skin. It will be bonded to the skin, although I haven't decided if I'm going to permanently attach this "deck" or use platenuts and countersunk screws..... I know it's not exactly simple, but... It's so light weight, I can't help but use this thing somewhere... I was rumaging around my basement boxes when I found a couple of power lumbar motor assemblies. It's attached to a plastic hosed cable drive transmission. The cable travel is 2.0625. The motor and transmission are fully reversable. I will add a drive lug to my right side gooseneck hinge to attach the end of the drive cable to. Add a micro switch to the canopy latches that is nomally closed.... I now have a power canopy, No pnuematic (gas Lift Arms) struts needed. The motor assembly weighs a lot less than the lift arms....Added benefit: Adjustable canopy opening height, ..... at the press of a switch. Hee hee heee. I love simple, but I love Sneaky even better!!!! Dan Heath <da...@alltel.net> wrote: I love simple. Window tapes have been applied and tomorrow I will remove the safety angles at the lower ends of the windshield and tape that in. Then it is on to fill and sand. I will bet that I have the top of this plane painted by the end of this month. You wouldn't believe how big this canopy looks. It is normal size, but it looks as big as an RV. I love it. Scott Cable KR-2S # 735 Wright City, MO s2cab...@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
