{"id":589,"date":"2015-05-17T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=589"},"modified":"2015-05-17T18:28:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T02:28:54","slug":"pilot-seatback-weldment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Seatback Weldment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This kit came with a tall pilot option seat back weldment. \u00a0I purchased a shortie from another builder who had an extra one. \u00a0With the combination of a Quickbuild fuselage, including the already drilled shim and Showplanes canopy sills it was amazing that most of the drill holes lined up, especially when you consider the fuselage had to get squeezed about 1\/4&#8243; to get the weldment to fit properly. \u00a0Since the weldment was already drilled I back drilled up through it. \u00a0The red arrows were placed there because I was going to take this to the local welder to get those holes filled if they did not line up. \u00a0No need now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image44.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-585\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image44-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image44-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image44-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image43.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-584\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image43-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image43-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image43-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shim riveted in place. \u00a0I still need to get the Showplanes roll bar welded to the seat back weldment so I must wait to install it permanently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image45.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-586\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image45-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image45-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image45-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This kit came with a tall pilot option seat back weldment. \u00a0I purchased a shortie from another builder who had an extra one. \u00a0With the combination of a Quickbuild fuselage, including the already drilled shim and Showplanes canopy sills it was amazing that most of the drill holes lined up, especially when you consider the <a href='http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=589' 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":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}