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Old 03-08-2009, 05:40 PM
N258RE N258RE is offline
 
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Default canopy trim/cutting with Sika

I have a canopy from Todd's and have trimmed it until it is in contact with the roll bar, how ever I still have quite a gap on the sides between the forward upper skin on both sides near the roll bar and not much over lap of the slider frame,

I was planning to go the Sika route, but if I do not have enough over lap I could take the spacers out and gain some more trimming in the front to bring the sides down

so my question is, should I trim more from the very front of the canopy to bring it forward and down or just make the big cut now? if I make the big cut will I have enough area for the Sika bond?



hard to see in this pic but the canopy is sitting down nicely on the front skin

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Old 03-09-2009, 03:49 AM
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Default frame

from the looks of the one photo, there does not appear to be a lot of overlap on the horizontal run of the frame. might be the angle from which the picture was shot- - though I'd consider lowering the canopy a bit to get more area to which the sika could bond with the frame.
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