Determined to press on with fitting the windscreen, I decided to copy the approach used by several other builders for marking the fixing positions into the legs of the screen and that is to make up some batons that can be glued on the inner wing.
Four strips of plywood were cut.
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| Plywood batons |
The batons then had holes drilled in them to allow the screen mounting bolts to pass through and spacers were added to the back of the baton. The idea being that the backs of the spacers are glued to the inner wing and the hole in the centre of the baton is fixed in place to the mounting point. The batons are set far enough off the mounting supports to allow the screen legs to pass between them and the baton.
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| Spacers fixed to batons and holes drilled to fix to screen support mountings |
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| Batons screwed in place and waiting for glue to harden |
Once the glue dries the fixing bolts can be removed, the screen lowered into place and then fixing holes marked through the hole in the baton in the correct place on the screen legs
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