Tired Old Man
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Okay, I see it's canopy time again.
First lay a sheet of wax paper on the deck that hangs over the sides a couple of inches. Make sure it runs up to the top of the turtle deck and overhangs a little. The hatch will sit on this when you attach the canopy.
Fit the canopy to the hatch with the hatch in position over the wax paper and deck. Mark the outline of the canopy on the hatch with a fine tipped felt pen.
Remove the canopy and use some 320 sandpaper to rough up the covering a little just inside the canopy outline. Do the same around the inside edges of the canopy.
Clean the felt pen marks with some acetone or denatured lcohol. It might even come up with rubbing alcohol.
Attach the hatch to the fuselage just like you were going to go fly it, making sure that the wax paper is still between the hatch deck, turtle deck, and canopy frame.
Run a thin bead of RC56 glue along the area where you roughed it up. Set the canopy down over the glue, apply a little pressure to squeeze out the excess glue, and tape it down tight over night with an easy to remove masking tape. Run the tape down the fuselage past the wax paper and trim the wax paper up a little for better tape adhesion if needed.
After taping it down, carefully go back, and removing one piece of tape at a time, clean up any excess RC56 with a wet sponge or paper towel. Dry that area, tape it down again, and move on to the next area that needs cleaned up. Be sure to get after it while it's still wet.
The end result usually comes out looking professional. The canopy is glued to the hatch with it secured in position on the deck, so the aft edge of the frame matches the turtle deck. The wax paper prevents getting things stuck together when it gets glued, and having it all attached when you glue means that the frame is aligned with the fuselage with a nice, straight canopy. At the local hardware stores you can probably find some colored electrical tape that matches, or almost matches, the color of the covering to trim out the edges of the canopy
Don't use Saran Wrap or things of that nature.
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