{"id":1304,"date":"2009-02-27T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T19:09:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:09:26","slug":"prepped-vertical-stabilizer-fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/02\/27\/prepped-vertical-stabilizer-fo\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepped Vertical Stabilizer for Riveting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dimpled and countersunk all of the ribs and spars for the vertical stabilizer tonight and got everything primed. \u00a0Unfortunately, the digital scale I bought for mixing the primer and other chemicals came with a really crappy 9-volt battery that basically only worked for about 30 minutes when I mixed the primer for the horizontal stabilizer. \u00a0Tonight, after midnight and right in the middle of mixing the primer, the battery died and I couldn&#8217;t find another 9-volt battery anywhere in the house. \u00a0Fortunately, we live fairly close to a 7-Eleven, so I was able to run out and get a new battery before the epoxy primer started to cure and finish the priming.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really liking the Stewart System EkoPoxy primer. \u00a0It&#8217;s trivial to clean up and I&#8217;m very impressed with the durability on the horizontal stabilizer structure. \u00a0It&#8217;s very hard to scratch, and it&#8217;s impervious to basically all chemicals. \u00a0I really like the fact that it isn&#8217;t highly toxic like other epoxy primers, so a simple particle respirator is all you need to spray it.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20090228\/CIMG0070.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIMG0070.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dimpled and countersunk all of the ribs and spars for the vertical stabilizer tonight and got everything primed. \u00a0Unfortunately, the digital scale I bought for mixing the primer and other chemicals came with a really crappy 9-volt battery that basically only worked for about 30 minutes when I mixed the primer for the horizontal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/02\/27\/prepped-vertical-stabilizer-fo\/\" 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empennage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","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=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3936,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}