{"id":385,"date":"2014-01-06T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-13T08:21:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T08:21:27","slug":"worked-on-wingtips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2014\/01\/06\/worked-on-wingtips\/","title":{"rendered":"Worked on Wingtips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the plane at the hangar, there are only a few things I can work on at home. \u00a0One is the wingtips, so I resumed fitting the wingtip lenses.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20140106\/IMG_1237.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_1237.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The flange widths around the lens varied fairly significantly (from 18-23 32nds), so I marked and filed the flange on the right wingtip to a consistent width.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20140106\/IMG_1238.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_1238.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I trimmed the lens approximately to shape and then sanded each side so that the edges are nice and straight. \u00a0Once the lens fits on properly, I will apply some filler to the wingtip so that the gap is tight and uniform all the way around.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20140106\/IMG_1239.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_1239.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the plane at the hangar, there are only a few things I can work on at home. \u00a0One is the wingtips, so I resumed fitting the wingtip lenses. The flange widths around the lens varied fairly significantly (from 18-23 32nds), so I marked and filed the flange on the right wingtip to a consistent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2014\/01\/06\/worked-on-wingtips\/\" 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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","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=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}