{"id":423,"date":"2013-11-21T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-13T02:12:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T02:12:55","slug":"removed-wingtip-reinforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/11\/21\/removed-wingtip-reinforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Removed Wingtip Reinforcement and Filled Left Side of Rudder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my attempt at reinforcing the bottom of the wingtip was a failure. \u00a0The Coremat didn&#8217;t come with instructions, and apparently, it needs to be saturated with epoxy in order to work. \u00a0I managed to pop the glass off and the Coremat released pretty easily from the inside surface of the wingtip. \u00a0I tried saturating the Coremat and reinstalling it, but it took a shocking amount of epoxy. \u00a0It would have easily weighed a couple of pounds, and I would need to do the same thing on the top and both surfaces of the other wingtip. \u00a0This would be far too much weight to add to the plane just to stiffen up the wingtips.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20131121\/IMG_1005.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_1005.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Before calling it quits for the evening, I decided to apply some filler to the left side of the rudder. \u00a0I mixed up the epoxy\/microlight a little bit thinner tonight, so it should self-level somewhat which will make it easier to sand.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20131121\/IMG_1006.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_1006.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my attempt at reinforcing the bottom of the wingtip was a failure. \u00a0The Coremat didn&#8217;t come with instructions, and apparently, it needs to be saturated with epoxy in order to work. \u00a0I managed to pop the glass off and the Coremat released pretty easily from the inside surface of the wingtip. \u00a0I tried saturating &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/11\/21\/removed-wingtip-reinforcement\/\" 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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empennage","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","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=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}