{"id":426,"date":"2015-04-02T17:56:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T01:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=426"},"modified":"2015-04-02T17:56:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T01:56:44","slug":"forward-top-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Forward Top Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drilled the forward top skin F-821PP, baggage door support F-821BPP\u00a0and firewall. \u00a0Marked the lengthwise centerline of all three, aligned them and made sure the skin was even on each side. \u00a0Began drilling in the center and used cleco clamps between each rivet to spread the skin out evenly on each side. \u00a0Nice and tight, no gaps. \u00a0Tomorrow I will do the same with the second bulkhead F-866. \u00a0I may insert a few keeper rivets on the baggage door support and the bulkhead to keep them aligned while I force the bulkhead into the proper arrangement. \u00a0I will tape the skin down so it&#8217;s even on each side. \u00a0I drew a line on each side skin centered on the rivets and when those show through the top skin holes I&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s properly aligned left to right. \u00a0At least that&#8217;s the plan. \u00a0I tried it with tape today but pushing the bulkhead into place made the F-866 and F-821BPP come out of alignment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_2443.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-425\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_2443-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2443\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_2443-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_2443-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drilled the forward top skin F-821PP, baggage door support F-821BPP\u00a0and firewall. \u00a0Marked the lengthwise centerline of all three, aligned them and made sure the skin was even on each side. \u00a0Began drilling in the center and used cleco clamps between each rivet to spread the skin out evenly on each side. \u00a0Nice and tight, no <a href='http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=426' 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":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}