I haven't had much of a chance to work on the plane lately, but tonight I did have time to assemble the canopy rollers:
…and temporarily put them into the canopy frame tubes. The plans suggest a small c-clamp to hold them in place but I don't have any that are small enough. Time for a hardware store run I suppose.
I cut the slide tracks to length, laid out and drilled the pilot holes for the screws that hold them to the fuselage sides, and temporarily clamped them in place.
Then I drilled a hole through the canopy slide block and the aft end of the canopy. This would have been a great place for a pilot hole, as it was hard to hold everything together while drilling. The edge distance looks pretty small in this photo but it's adequate in real life (you don't need as much E.D. with steel as with aluminum). Also, the specified AN3-21A bolt was too short and I don't have any extra -22A's, so I'm using a thin AN364 nut on here for now.
