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Mon 28 November 2005

With the cool morning - I finished the P1 harness bracket. Simple alignment / drilling for AN4 bolt.
Then moving onto the spinner plate, Dad knocked up a wood base plate for mounting on the pillar drill.
I sorted a layout and transferred to the spinner.
With the spinner plate mounted and the locations defined the base can then be rotated - this results in a nice circular pattern!
This is the rear of the prop - sounds obvious now, but we went looking for the prop bolts - they are captive and already on the prop!
With the temps getting back toward 28C we returned to the front canopy. First up was marking of the side rail locations.
Then lots of trimming and sanding, fitting, re-testing then more of the above..... Also removed the forward skin which helps the front drop a little more. More trimming at the front (and probably sides) will be needed but the rear parts needs fixing first.
This was our first take at pulling the rear ribs up to the canopy plexi - not bad - with a 5/16" ish gap between the two rear ribs - a little more than we want but not the end of the world.
Carl Morgan