{"id":2007,"date":"2018-07-01T11:06:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T19:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2018-07-01T11:06:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T19:06:25","slug":"reinforcing-pilot-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=2007","title":{"rendered":"Reinforcing Pilot Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1640.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2012\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1640-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1640-525x700.jpg 525w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1640-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1640-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of chatter on vansairforce.net about drilling holes into the pilots stick.\u00a0 Any hole will reduce the strength of the stick but it&#8217;s worse when the hole is nearest the pivot point, as mine is.\u00a0 Reinforcing the area is a worthwhile endeavor.\u00a0 My hole is 3\/8&#8243;.\u00a0 I had to cut 3+ inches off the top of the stick so it would fit under the panel with the Infinity stick grip.\u00a0 \u00a0 I sliced this excess in half and refined it so it would fit over the hole and fit within the existing welds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2011\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1641-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1641-525x700.jpg 525w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1641-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1641-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get a professional TIG welder to weld it into place, as well as the roll bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of chatter on vansairforce.net about drilling holes into the pilots stick.\u00a0 Any hole will reduce the strength of the stick but it&#8217;s worse when the hole is nearest the pivot point, as mine is.\u00a0 Reinforcing the area is a worthwhile endeavor.\u00a0 My hole is 3\/8&#8243;.\u00a0 I had to cut 3+ inches <a href='http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=2007' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}