I am building an RV-9A tip-up. I am having a difficult time getting the skin on the tip-up section of the canopy to fit correctly. The center holes of the frame and skin do not easily line up. I really had to tweak things around to get clecos in. I trim front edge of skin to fit well with forward skin and drilled holes in hinge arms of the frame. I removed skin from frame. When I reinstalled it, it fit poorly. I started looking at why it was so difficult to get on the frame in the first place. It appears that the holes get closer to the front of the frame nearer the center. I have heavily fluted the frame to attempt to pull them back so they would line up with the skin. This has helped some, but things still do not line up very well. I feel I have fluted about as much as possible. To make matter worse the frame is not straight across the front. It seems to come to a point at the center front. Looking back, I could have just drilled holes in between the existing holes at the center and created new holes in the frame since the canopy fillet would cover this, but I can?t do that now due to the fluting. Is there an issue with my frame or are they all this way? Anybody else have similar issues?
Thanks
Alan Jackson
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Alan Jackson
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