{"id":345,"date":"2014-03-01T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T16:50:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T03:52:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T03:52:55","slug":"riveted-hinge-to-right-gear-le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2014\/03\/01\/riveted-hinge-to-right-gear-le\/","title":{"rendered":"Riveted Hinge to Right Gear Leg Fairing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wasn’t able to spend much time at the hangar today, but I did get down there for a bit in the afternoon. \u00a0The winds were way too strong to fly (at least until I get more practice in the plane), but I did get a chance to resume work on the gear leg fairings. \u00a0I had previously trimmed them to size and put strips of tape along the aft edge as reference points to ensure they’re straight. \u00a0I then clamped the trailing edge with some cleco clamps and drilled the hinges to the inside of the fairing. \u00a0After countersinking, I removed the hinge and deburred it. \u00a0I used some of the G\/flex epoxy from West Systems to bond the hinge halves to the inside of the fairing and then riveted into place with some soft rivets. \u00a0I only had time to do the right fairing today, but hopefully I can knock out the other one tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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I had been planning on fabricating some jacking points for a while now. \u00a0Even though I’m going to lift the plane by the engine mount using the shop crane I bought, I need something under the wings to keep the plane from swinging. \u00a0Since I fabricated aircraft jacks awhile ago, using them to support the wings seemed like the best plan. \u00a0I bought some 1″ galvanized pipe caps and drilled them for a 3\/8″ bolt. \u00a0I then inserted a 2″ long 3\/8″-16 bolt through and tightened it down with a washer and nut. \u00a0This is screwed all the way down to the stop I installed in the wing tie-down point. \u00a0I might trim about 1\/4″ off the bolt to reduce the bending load a little further.<\/p>\n

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The cap just fits over the end of the ram on the jack. \u00a0It has just enough room to move around that I can insert it over the ram without having to be perfectly aligned with it.<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t able to spend much time at the hangar today, but I did get down there for a bit in the afternoon. \u00a0The winds were way too strong to fly (at least until I get more practice in the plane), but I did get a chance to resume work on the gear leg fairings. … 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":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}