Desert Rat
Well Known Member
I'm going the Sika route on my RV7 Slider and will hopefully be at that point in a couple of days. I'm also going to likely take the easy(er) way out and do fiberglass canopy skirts.
I've read a ton of threads and build logs, including Larry Larson's excellent Kitplanes article.
I'm planning to rivet the C-759 Inner Canopy Skirt to the frame with every other hole, then use the open holes to eventually attach the yet-to-be-fabricated fiberglass skirts in position in addition to gluing them on with either Sika or epoxy. So far, I'm just copying what lots of other folks seem to have done.
What's not clear to me is how to Sika the plexi to the Inner Canopy Skirt. Sika claims to need 1/8" gap which is pretty easy to achieve everywhere else, but when you get to the skirts, there is essentially zero gap there.
What do people do here?
I've read a ton of threads and build logs, including Larry Larson's excellent Kitplanes article.
I'm planning to rivet the C-759 Inner Canopy Skirt to the frame with every other hole, then use the open holes to eventually attach the yet-to-be-fabricated fiberglass skirts in position in addition to gluing them on with either Sika or epoxy. So far, I'm just copying what lots of other folks seem to have done.
What's not clear to me is how to Sika the plexi to the Inner Canopy Skirt. Sika claims to need 1/8" gap which is pretty easy to achieve everywhere else, but when you get to the skirts, there is essentially zero gap there.
What do people do here?