{"id":414,"date":"2013-12-01T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-13T02:22:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T02:22:02","slug":"skim-coated-empennage-fairings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/12\/01\/skim-coated-empennage-fairings\/","title":{"rendered":"Skim Coated Empennage Fairings and Prepped Canopy Frame and Roll Bar for Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I skim coated most of the empennage fairings with straight epoxy to fill the pinholes and scratches from the sandpaper.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I then started prepping the canopy frame for painting. \u00a0First up is to rivet the canopy bow to the side channel. \u00a0I then bolted the canopy latches in place so that all of the hardware will get painted.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I masked off the areas that shouldn’t get any paint, then scotchbrited everything that needed paint.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I riveted the roll bar support channel onto the roll bar, then scotchbrited the whole thing. \u00a0I used the scotchbrite disc in the die grinder to make all of the rivets completely flush to the surface to make sure they can’t scratch the canopy.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I skim coated most of the empennage fairings with straight epoxy to fill the pinholes and scratches from the sandpaper. I then started prepping the canopy frame for painting. \u00a0First up is to rivet the canopy bow to the side channel. \u00a0I then bolted the canopy latches in place so that all of the hardware … 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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empennage","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","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=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}