FabricGATOR
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I am asking about the arm that holds the canopy from flopping over onto the RH side.
A friend asked me to fix a glitch during the annual inspection. It looked like a simple adjustment, a screw backing out and a misplaced bushing...
Hindsight is absolutely 20/20... I should have been seated inside when I closed the canopy... all I did was put a drip of Loctite 242 medium on the #10 pivot screw that I just reinstalled the bushing I found under the rear seat....
That arm somehow flipped to the rh side, went over center, and locked up the canopy in the closed position AARRRG!
This was worse than trying to get into a Chevy Avalanche when the kids locked the keys inside with a coat hangar and a piece of andante spaghetti.
The canopy would raise about a half my forearms width and then somehow get stuck. The screw (fuselage A frame side) would bind with the canopy cross member bolt. I could manipulate the canopy forward to clear the bind but then there was a 'clunk' of it binding in another section that I couldn't ascertain by myself working in a remote located hangar...
Does anyone have a solution or can someone supply a drawing or dimensions?
It worked pretty crappily before I "fixed it" by reinstalling the forward pivot bushing that I found.
A friend asked me to fix a glitch during the annual inspection. It looked like a simple adjustment, a screw backing out and a misplaced bushing...
Hindsight is absolutely 20/20... I should have been seated inside when I closed the canopy... all I did was put a drip of Loctite 242 medium on the #10 pivot screw that I just reinstalled the bushing I found under the rear seat....
That arm somehow flipped to the rh side, went over center, and locked up the canopy in the closed position AARRRG!
This was worse than trying to get into a Chevy Avalanche when the kids locked the keys inside with a coat hangar and a piece of andante spaghetti.
The canopy would raise about a half my forearms width and then somehow get stuck. The screw (fuselage A frame side) would bind with the canopy cross member bolt. I could manipulate the canopy forward to clear the bind but then there was a 'clunk' of it binding in another section that I couldn't ascertain by myself working in a remote located hangar...
Does anyone have a solution or can someone supply a drawing or dimensions?
It worked pretty crappily before I "fixed it" by reinstalling the forward pivot bushing that I found.