{"id":1298,"date":"2009-03-05T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T18:28:15","slug":"rudder-fully-assembled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/03\/05\/rudder-fully-assembled\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudder Fully Assembled"},"content":{"rendered":"

I still haven’t received an email back from Van’s about the top rib, so I gave them a call. \u00a0They’re going to take a closer look at my pictures and get back to me, but they did say that the top rib often requires a bit of massaging by the builder to get everything to line up. \u00a0Since I may end up using this rib anyway, I spent some time tonight getting it bent such that all of the holes lined up and the skin laid flat against its flanges. \u00a0Here is the rudder fully assembled to see how things lined up.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center>Here is the tip of that rib after I adjusted it a bit. \u00a0The holes line up well enough now that the clecos interfere with each other (causing the top one to lay over a bit). \u00a0I still have to adjust the fluting a bit more (you can see a slight gap between the skin and rib where the second cleco in on the top is located).<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center>I went ahead and trimmed the rudder brace and fitted it to the rudder horn.<\/p>\n

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I still haven’t received an email back from Van’s about the top rib, so I gave them a call. \u00a0They’re going to take a closer look at my pictures and get back to me, but they did say that the top rib often requires a bit of massaging by the builder to get everything to … 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-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empennage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","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=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}