{"id":1285,"date":"2009-03-19T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T18:52:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T18:52:29","slug":"finished-rudder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/03\/19\/finished-rudder\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished Rudder"},"content":{"rendered":"

My buddy Andre stopped by tonight to help me rivet the trailing edge. \u00a0It turned out great.<\/p>\n

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\nHere you can see that it’s completely straight. \u00a0One of the things Van’s really cautions you about is that setting these rivets can cause a hook in the trailing edge. \u00a0Using the sealant helps ensure this won’t happen. \u00a0I did get some very slight puckering between the rivets, probably due to slightly overdriving them.<\/p>\n

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\nWe also got the leading edge rolled and riveted. \u00a0This was probably by far the hardest part of the rudder. \u00a0Despite how thin the skins are, these things are a bitch to roll.<\/p>\n

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\nI also got the rudder hinges installed. \u00a0Van’s uses rod end bearings for hinges on the elevator and rudders. \u00a0These are just screwed in to a specified distance from the spar web (or reinforcing plate in this photo).<\/p>\n

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My buddy Andre stopped by tonight to help me rivet the trailing edge. \u00a0It turned out great. Here you can see that it’s completely straight. \u00a0One of the things Van’s really cautions you about is that setting these rivets can cause a hook in the trailing edge. \u00a0Using the sealant helps ensure this won’t happen. … 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empennage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","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=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}