Today's afternoon I installed the lifting struts on the canopy. Here the forward support is bolted to the frame.



As the screws are countersunk, the skin needs to be dimpled (the two big holes on the right) and the frame countersunk. The countersink being quite deep, I used the forward support bloc as a guide and screwed it as shown.



Then the rear mount is installed in the fuselage. To get it to the correct position, I make a template of the closed strut with some aluminium laying around.



The mount is to be bolted to the canopy deck, but acces to the bolts (and washers) is marginal. So I stole the idea of other builders and made a platenut plate that also acts as an antirotation device.



An here the strut is fully installed.