{"id":501,"date":"2015-05-03T18:37:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T02:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=501"},"modified":"2015-05-03T18:47:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T02:47:24","slug":"horizontal-stabilizer-attached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"Horizontal Stabilizer Attached"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leveled the fuselage to within .1 degrees all around, centered and measured. \u00a0Placed the appropriate shims in front and back and began drilling. \u00a0Lots of measurements to make sure the bolts are centered, lots. \u00a0Started drilling with 40 then 30 then 19 and final drilled to 12.<\/p>\n

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Made a drill shim of sorts which is the height of the bolt holes above the aft deck. \u00a0This way I can use a long drill bit and make sure it’s level by holding it back 6 inches from the hole so it’s level in the horizontal.<\/p>\n

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Drilled the front horizontal spar with an pancake drill. \u00a0Edge clearance for the outboard bolt holes is not perfect but a thread on vansairforce.net indicated that Vans said the structural integrity comes from the longerons.<\/p>\n

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Leveled the fuselage to within .1 degrees all around, centered and measured. \u00a0Placed the appropriate shims in front and back and began drilling. \u00a0Lots of measurements to make sure the bolts are centered, lots. \u00a0Started drilling with 40 then 30 then 19 and final drilled to 12. Made a drill shim of sorts which is […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}