Van's Aircraft RV 10 Cabin Top Trimming And Installation

Here is a short video where I show some of the tools that I used to rough trim the fiberglass cabin top for our group-built Van's aircraft RV-10.
I used an angle grinder with thin cut-off wheel as well as a flapper disk to remove a lot of material very quickly.
I used a 1/4" die grinder with a different type of flapper wheel to shape and contour the window openings along with shorter hand sanding blocks.
Mostly, I used long, course sanding blocks that I made with cut up sanding belts, straight lumber and contact cement to achieve the flat and square surfaces necessary to mate the fiberglass cabin top with the door and sill area of the fuselage.
Please forgive the wind noise and my mumbling!
Please comment and tell us what you used and how you went about the rough trimming and fitting of your project.
I would love to see more detailed information and/or links to what the final profile should look like to allow for the McMaster Carr door seal modification and how others went about achieving this.
Cheers!
Van's Aircraft
RV-10
RV10
C-FEAR
Cabin Top Installation
Cabin Top tools
Cabin Top Fitting
Elbow Grease
Sanding Blocks
Die Grinder
Angle Grinder
Flapper Wheel
Flapper Disk

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I appreciate your forum type of purpose for creating this video. You want to share with the community, what you’ve learned and invite others with similar experience to share their knowledge. I hope the almighty algorithms start loading this into the feeds of more builders, to get the conversation some traction 😎🎩♠️