Before tackling the installation of the canopy frame, I decide to fabricate the small parts required. Here the plastic blocks and other parts. One of the blocks in the upper right corner was thicker by 1/16 than the other, it took ages to sand it down.



Then part of the jettison mecanism is to be worked on (I will only install it partially). Two steel tubes have to be cut and drilled. There is a little gotcha in the plans as the dimension given is not the tube length, but the length between the holes.



The picture shows the tubing end. The ends have to be sliced, and the dimension are not the same for both sides. Filing took one hour to get the four ends done.



I then drilled the various splice parts and drew the parts for the installation of the gas struts.