After cutting the hinges to
length, I made myself a 4' long square by clamping together a large square
and a 4' aluminum ruler. I used the long square to align the hinges
parallel to one another. This image shows the square clamped to the
instrument panel and also shows the packing tape I put on the hinges to
prevent them from getting gummed up with epoxy. I used a couple of
stir sticks, cut on the ends, as stops to keep the hinges in the spots there
were supposed to be.
Once the hinges were floxed on,
I used blue masking tape to keep them from moving. Now, time for some
weight and another straight edge.
The long square I made kept
them aligned in the longitudinal axis, in pitch I used a second straightedge
and some weights to keep them aligned. It took a while to set this all
up but I wanted it to turn out right.
Once the flox was cured, I
found a piece of wood that I could affix to both hinges and see how they
worked.
Works great! No binding
at all! Bring on the canopy!
No more work on Chapter
18 until after Chapter 17 finishes.
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