{"id":277,"date":"2014-04-28T08:06:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T16:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=277"},"modified":"2014-04-28T08:06:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T16:06:13","slug":"safety-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Safety First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stainless steel melts at approximately 900 degrees celsius Higher than aluminum. \u00a0If there was ever a fire in the engine bay it&#8217;s a safe bet that most of the heat, fire and flame is going to come out through the exhaust channel and under the pilot. \u00a0Several other builders have replaced the aluminum channel with stainless steel. \u00a0I think this is an easy upgrade. \u00a0It will be heavier but the new channel will be built so that it will resist the cracking that can happen in this area. \u00a0Like the other builders I&#8217;m giving the channel &#8220;wings&#8221; so that it is attached more rigidly.<\/p>\n<p>First pass after using the local EAA96 shear and brake. \u00a0Left side is the old aluminum channel and the right side is the stainless one (upside down).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1461.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-263\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1461-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1461\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1461-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1461-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting closer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1462.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-264\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1462-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1462\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1462-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1462-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still need to attach the stiffeners. \u00a0This was a lot of work, almost the entire day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1463.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-265\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1463-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1463\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1463-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1463-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stainless steel melts at approximately 900 degrees celsius Higher than aluminum. \u00a0If there was ever a fire in the engine bay it&#8217;s a safe bet that most of the heat, fire and flame is going to come out through the exhaust channel and under the pilot. \u00a0Several other builders have replaced the aluminum channel with <a href='http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=277' 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":[8,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}