| My Friend John Ackerman was down from Prescott today and offered to come over and help me install the Windscreen. Late |
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| last night I taped off the upper fwd fuse and Scotchbrited and primed the top, then applied a coat of Semi-flat Black Krylon. I plan |
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| to cover the glareshield w/ Upholstery, but this is 'just in case' When John arrived we fabricated the 5 'fingers' out of .032" to |
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| hold the bottom of the windscreen stationary, only we reasoned that 7 would be better, My windscreen dispite my best efforts |
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| isn't a perfect fit, and is sits up a little bit in the bottom center, so we figured a couple more clips could help hold it down a bit. |
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| After a couple of dry run rehersals w/ John, we mixed up the flox/cabosil/epoxy and began applying it to the flange on the cabin |
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| cover. I used the same method as for the previous windows. i/e applying a generous amount and then using the popsicle stick to |
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| screed off a level amount using the cabin cover and the edge of the flange. this results in just about a perfect amount w/ not a lot |
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| of excess that is squeezed out and NO voids. Used the finger/clips made for the previous windows to help clamp/hold the wind |
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| screen in place for cure, Then we made a quick trip to the printer cartridge store to pick up some Black toner. the guy there |
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| found a letf over bottle and I bought it from him for $5. We used that to color the flox/epoxy mix that we used to fill the gap at the |
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| bottom between the windscreen and the glareshield. So that that anything from inside the cockpit will appear Black. |
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