{"id":2239,"date":"2018-08-19T14:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T22:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2018-08-19T14:50:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T22:50:54","slug":"fiberglass-and-elt-mounting-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=2239","title":{"rendered":"Fiberglass and ELT Mounting Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1914.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2241 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1914-e1534718466356-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1914-e1534718466356-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1914-e1534718466356-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1914-e1534718466356-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Took off the peel-ply and tape, sanded a bit and slathered a layer of micro on the rudder bottom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1916.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2240 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1916-e1534718596466-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1916-e1534718596466-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1916-e1534718596466-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1916-e1534718596466-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the VS tip (left) and HS tips all ready for primer.\u00a0 The rightmost one looks significantly larger in this photo but actually, it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1915.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2242\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1915-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1915-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1915-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1915-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m attempting to mount the ACK ELT antenna on the last fuselage bulkhead between the VS and HS.\u00a0 Unfortunately ACK made this whip antenna with a 30 degree base.\u00a0 I made a couple of shims to counter some of the cant but it&#8217;s not enough and any more thickness to the shim and I won&#8217;t be able to get the serrated washer and nut on the backside.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to look for a straight dual frequency antenna.\u00a0 I found one on Spruce website but it&#8217;s $169, ouch.\u00a0 Called ACK to find out what type of antenna I can use and they said that if it&#8217;s a two frequency antenna it will work.\u00a0 Not just need to find a cheap one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took off the peel-ply and tape, sanded a bit and slathered a layer of micro on the rudder bottom. Here&#8217;s the VS tip (left) and HS tips all ready for primer.\u00a0 The rightmost one looks significantly larger in this photo but actually, it&#8217;s not. I&#8217;m attempting to mount the ACK ELT antenna on the last <a href='http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=2239' 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":[27,39],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239"}],"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=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}