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Comment by David J. Beaulieu on March 12, 2017 at 11:20pm

Thanks Bob!  Starting to imagine I see light at the end of the tunnel...

Comment by Bob McDonald on March 12, 2017 at 1:51pm

Very nice attention to detail.

Comment by David J. Beaulieu on March 12, 2017 at 10:38am

Joe, I did something a bit different.  I took a a 3/8 x 1/4 piece of aluminum bar stock and placed it full length underneath the fuselage top skin forward of the top channel (not between the sunroof and top skin)  I then drilled and tapped at an angle into the bar stock.  The S/S 6-32 screw heads with plastic washer lay flat on the lexan, pass thru a 1/4 hole with silicon bushing, thru the top skin and into the bar stock.  The very slight load is distributed along the whole length of bar stock to the skin. I had tried fooling around with fabricating wedge(s) between the lexan and top skin, but the space was too small to effectively do anything with. I just need to lay a sealant line down on the trailing edge (and antennae) and I'll be done.  Hope it's somewhat clear...cheers!

Comment by Joe Harrington on March 11, 2017 at 10:56pm

How did you attach the back edge of the skylight? Did you bend the aluminum up to meet the plexi? ‘Cause that is what I did but I know some made some sort of wedge spacer which also worked.