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Finally sacked up and drilled the aft plexi to the roll bar and aft top skin. I still can’t install it permanently because I have to repaint the roll bar and fill a couple of slight dents in the F631 channel where I clamped it a little hard during assembly. That does actually need to happen first, since I’ve only got 1 pair of sawhorses and I need them to do the fiberglassing of the canopy bubble. But there’s definitely light at the end of the tunnel, and I don’t think it’s a train.
I’m also currently in the process of match-drilling the backing strips for the aft canopy, which are optional, but since I spent the effort to make them, I might as well use them.
I also sunk 3 cherrymax rivets in on the 3 forwardmost rivets of the aft top skin. Remember those holes? They were the ones that interfered with the big honking angle holding the roll bar to the rest of the fuselage. Support at Van’s Aircraft said to go ahead and put blind rivets in there, so I did.
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