{"id":1306,"date":"2009-02-22T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T18:24:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T18:24:35","slug":"finished-horizontal-stabilizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/02\/22\/finished-horizontal-stabilizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished Horizontal Stabilizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My tech counselor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rvproject.com\/\">Dan Checkoway<\/a>, stopped by this morning to check out my progress. \u00a0He said everything looks excellent. \u00a0Now that I was good to go, my buddy Andre stopped by again to help me finish the riveting. \u00a0Here, we&#8217;re putting the last rivet in one side of the front spar.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20090222\/CIMG0061.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIMG0061.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nTo save time, I borrowed Andre&#8217;s squeezer and was able to squeeze two rivets at a time. \u00a0This really sped things up. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20090222\/CIMG0062.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIMG0062.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nWe only had to drill out a few rivets where the squeezer slipped, but I was able to drill them out without enlarging the hole, so we could just drop another rivet in.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20090222\/CIMG0063.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIMG0063.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nHere, I&#8217;m squeezing the very last rivet in the horizontal stabilizer.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20090222\/CIMG0067.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIMG0067.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nIn about one 4 hour session, we were able to finish the horizontal stabilizer. \u00a0It looks so cool to finally see this finished.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20090222\/CIMG0066.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIMG0066.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My tech counselor, Dan Checkoway, stopped by this morning to check out my progress. \u00a0He said everything looks excellent. \u00a0Now that I was good to go, my buddy Andre stopped by again to help me finish the riveting. \u00a0Here, we&#8217;re putting the last rivet in one side of the front spar. To save time, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/02\/22\/finished-horizontal-stabilizer\/\" 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-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empennage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","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=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}