{"id":1008,"date":"2010-04-04T17:14:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-04T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:26:46","slug":"attached-instrument-panel-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/04\/04\/attached-instrument-panel-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Attached Instrument Panel and Forward Top Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fit the instrument panel to the forward ribs and clamped a straight edge to the panel to ensure it was flat, then match drilled the clip to the forward canopy decks.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20100404\/CIMG1364.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIMG1364.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Next, I fluted all of the substructure to ensure the holes were in line, then fit the top skin in preparation for match drilling it to the structure.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20100404\/CIMG1365.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIMG1365.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I clamped the firewall flange flush with the forward edge of the skin using the cleco clamps. \u00a0I had to adjust the flutes several times to get the edge of the firewall flange to follow the line of the top skin perfectly.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20100404\/CIMG1366.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIMG1366.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Finally, I match drilled the subpanel, firewall and ribs to the skin.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20100404\/CIMG1367.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIMG1367.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fit the instrument panel to the forward ribs and clamped a straight edge to the panel to ensure it was flat, then match drilled the clip to the forward canopy decks. Next, I fluted all of the substructure to ensure the holes were in line, then fit the top skin in preparation for match &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/04\/04\/attached-instrument-panel-and\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuselage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2878,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}