{"id":9294,"date":"2022-07-03T17:45:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T17:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9294"},"modified":"2022-07-05T19:12:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T19:12:51","slug":"july-2-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9294","title":{"rendered":"July 2, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today actually felt like a decent victory. My progress on the airplane has been so minimal lately, so completing a tricky part of the project feels pretty good.<\/p>\n

I got the right canopy lug drilled. These parts are really annoying. It’s not clear how much resistance there should be between the latch and the lug, so I just tried to figure out a placement that had a small amount of friction. The trick I used for for drilling the brackets was the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Drill an oversized (#30) hole in the lug approximately where the bottom hole is located.<\/li>\n
  2. Tape a square sheet metal “washer” with a #42 hole to the lug. The holes should be concentric.<\/li>\n
  3. Cleco the lug\/sheet metal washer to the canopy.<\/li>\n
  4. After determining the appropriate location for the bracket, hot glue gun the bracket in place.<\/li>\n
  5. Remove the canopy from the frame<\/li>\n
  6. Drill out the upper hole in the frame<\/li>\n
  7. Drill out the lower hole in the frame<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The glue gun is a the key step. This allows you to place the lug and drill it out while you are outside of the cockpit.<\/p>\n

    Here is the bracket after being glued in place.
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    The holes on the forward face were drilled to #12. The lug is clecoed in place.
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    Here is the lug after being pulled off the frame. Looking good!
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    Today actually felt like a decent victory. My progress on the airplane has been so minimal lately, so completing a tricky part of the project feels pretty good. I got the right canopy lug drilled. These parts are really annoying. Continue reading July 2, 2022<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9312,"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9294\/revisions\/9312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}