{"id":688,"date":"2011-11-19T17:04:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T17:04:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-10T21:14:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T21:14:56","slug":"prepped-wings-for-riveting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/11\/19\/prepped-wings-for-riveting\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepped Wings for Riveting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for riveting on the wing bottom skins, I wanted to take care of a few last items inside the wings. \u00a0First up, I installed the remaining fuel tank z-bracket bolts and torqued\/sealed them. \u00a0Afterward, I installed the remaining screws that attach the tank (only on the bottom of each wing since that&#8217;s all I could reach). \u00a0I also cleaned out each bay and stripped the plastic from the insides of the wing skins.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20111119\/IMG_0033.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0033.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This bracket ties the pitot tube mount to the adjacent rib. \u00a0I primed it and riveted it to the rib with some AN470 AD3-4 rivets.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20111119\/IMG_0034.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0034.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Finally, I installed the countersunk nutplates on the top side of each wing aft of the spar. \u00a0I&#8217;ll do the bottom side of the wing aft of the spar after the bottom skins are riveted on. \u00a0The nutplates around the inboard edge of the tank will have to wait until I can remove the wings from the stand.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20111119\/IMG_0035.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0035.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for riveting on the wing bottom skins, I wanted to take care of a few last items inside the wings. \u00a0First up, I installed the remaining fuel tank z-bracket bolts and torqued\/sealed them. \u00a0Afterward, I installed the remaining screws that attach the tank (only on the bottom of each wing since that&#8217;s all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/11\/19\/prepped-wings-for-riveting\/\" 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-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}