Three days after starting to make plexiglas dust and having fit TWO canopies, I am happy with the slider canopy fit on the F1. Lessons learned? Read the instructions and look at the pictures four or five times…and then use a practice canopy to precede work on teh final one….both lessons lower the stress level considerably! One thing I know from other canopy builds - while the frame on rollers was a good fit, it wasn’t perfectly silky smooth - but I knew that the added mass of the canopy plex would make it so - and it did! And it’ll take a day of cleaning the shop to get rid of all the fine plastic dust - not quite as bad as fiberglass debris, but still obnoxious.
I still have to dress edges, and then get to work on skirts - then the windshield. But the really high-stress tasks are behind me (in my experience).
Ready to begin skirts!
I personally like a 3” cutoff when on a pneumatic too - light and easy to control.
Before you start - you need LOTS of clamps - the black and orange plastic ones from Harbor Freight are really, really, really cheap….
I still have to dress edges, and then get to work on skirts - then the windshield. But the really high-stress tasks are behind me (in my experience).
Ready to begin skirts!
I personally like a 3” cutoff when on a pneumatic too - light and easy to control.
Before you start - you need LOTS of clamps - the black and orange plastic ones from Harbor Freight are really, really, really cheap….
