First, I made sure my fuselage was level fore and aft as well as side to side. Since my main gear is still attached to the fuselage, all I need to do is to find a way to raise the front of the fuselage until it is level with the rear. I clamped a couple of 2x4's along both sides of the fuselage and 1 across & under the fuselage. With the help of a digital level, I got the fuselage leveled as needed.

Note the saw horse under the fuselage is my fail safe support, in case the C-clamps decide to give out. So far, they have been holding up OK.

Once the fuselage was leveled, I placed the 12' canard over F-22, it was 0.1 degree off - with the starboard side low. That was easy... a 1/16" washer took care of the problem. 

After searching through the archives, G template is the template of choice for setting the canard incidence - no problem there. However, the original G template from drawing M-18 is not the correct one. A 'modified' G template was released with Newsletter #80. Well, I did not have Newsletter #80 and the modified G template was not available at the 'Unofficial Cozy Site'. I called Aircraft Spruce and the person who knew anything about the Cozy Newsletter (Renee) was on maternity leave. I asked for alternate support and was disappointed to get one of those "I have no idea, just have to wait till she gets back" type answer. I posted a request to the Forum and received an original copy as well as a scan-in version of the template two days later (within hours apart).

I laid the modified G template over the original template to determine the difference. The height of the forward edge was decreased by .3", everything else remains the same. In other words, put a mark 0.3" below the top left corner of the original template and draw a straight line joining this 'new' mark to the top right corner of the template. This equated to a 1.15 degree increase to the canard incidence. I made a 1/2" thick wooden G template with the new dimensions and added stir sticks (shims) to the front edge of the canard until the digital level on the top of the G template registered 0.0 degree. As shown, the canard is leveled side to side,  and 0.0 degree incidence.

I made up an 8 layer BID tape and glassed it onto F-22 to replace the washer. After cure, I re-mounted the canard and re-measured the perpendicularity of the canard. After minor sanding, I got my 119.4" back on both sides. I also drilled  the pilot holes through the lift tabs, making sure the canard is still level at 0.0 degrees.

I made the alignment tabs out of .25" birch wood - just because I feel it has more substance to it (though the plan suggests Clark foam is OK as well). I drilled the alignment holes and trimmed them to length.

Using the 5 minute epoxy to hold the alignment tab in place (per plan) is OK, but I was not comfortable in leaving it in place as the fillet material for the subsequent 5 plies of BID. Besides, I know I can make a better fillet with flox than 5 minute epoxy. Therefore, I hot glued the alignment tabs in place first and then applied dry flox at the joint. Right before laying up the BID, I smoothed out the dry flox with pure epoxy using a soft brush. Then I carefully removed the alignment pin and laid out the BID and peel ply. It turned out nice. Once cured, I dismounted the canard and glassed the bottom side of the alignment tab  with 4 plies of BID per plan.

After cure, I opened up the alignment tab holes again to 3/16" for the AN-3 bolts. With the bolts in place and canard incident at 0.0 degrees, I floxed and glassed the 4" alignment pin tube in place. After cure, I opened up the alignment pin holes (on the tab) to 1/4" to accommodate the CN-2 bushings. Then I 5-min epoxied the CN-2 bushings in place.