{"id":300,"date":"2014-06-07T16:50:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T16:50:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T05:48:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T05:48:01","slug":"replaced-pitot-mast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2014\/06\/07\/replaced-pitot-mast\/","title":{"rendered":"Replaced Pitot Mast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, Tony Munday (owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safeair1.com\/\">SafeAir1<\/a>) contacted me about the pitot mast I purchased from them. \u00a0There were apparently some instances of cracking in the weld that joins the mast to the mounting plate and he is replacing all of them free of charge. \u00a0He sent me the new mast, but I&#8217;ve been so busy with Phase 1 and other maintenance that I haven&#8217;t had the time to do the swap. \u00a0I had a good chunk of time today, so I decided to take care of it. \u00a0Drilling out the old mast was fairly straight forward, but I decided to attach the new mast with screws in case I ever have to take it out again in the future. \u00a0I dropped the new mast down through the hole and then drilled all nine spots for #6 screws. \u00a0I then pulled the mast out and added nutplates on the mounting plate.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20140607\/IMG_2691.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2691.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center>I dimpled or countersunk the surface and then attached the new mast with some stainless steel torx screws. \u00a0I transferred the mounting holes for the screws that mount the pitot tube on the mast and then installed everything for good.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20140607\/IMG_2693.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2693.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center>The forward three holes go through the spar flange, so I had to countersink there. \u00a0The others I could dimple. \u00a0For some reason, the new mast is much stiffer than the old one.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20140607\/IMG_2695.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2695.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, Tony Munday (owner of SafeAir1) contacted me about the pitot mast I purchased from them. \u00a0There were apparently some instances of cracking in the weld that joins the mast to the mounting plate and he is replacing all of them free of charge. \u00a0He sent me the new mast, but I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2014\/06\/07\/replaced-pitot-mast\/\" 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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3791,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/3791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}