{"id":874,"date":"2010-11-14T17:07:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T17:07:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-07T07:15:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T07:15:35","slug":"drilled-rear-window-and-rivete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/11\/14\/drilled-rear-window-and-rivete\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilled Rear Window and Riveted Aft Top Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I centered and clamped the rear window in place using the 1\/8″ spacers along the top of the cabin frame. \u00a0I’m using these because I’m gluing the rear window to the cabin frame with sikaflex.<\/p>\n

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Starting at the center, I alternately drilled down both sides with the 1\/8″ plexi bits.<\/p>\n

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Now that the rear window is in its final location, I put some tape along the marked line. \u00a0I’ll trim this back to this point and will then probably sand both the forward and aft windows to open the gap up to the recommended amount.<\/p>\n

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My buddy Andre stopped by and we knocked out the riveting of the final aft top skin. \u00a0I left the forward ears unriveted since I need to disassemble and paint a bunch of the interior components before everything is put together for good.<\/p>\n

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I centered and clamped the rear window in place using the 1\/8″ spacers along the top of the cabin frame. \u00a0I’m using these because I’m gluing the rear window to the cabin frame with sikaflex. Starting at the center, I alternately drilled down both sides with the 1\/8″ plexi bits. Now that the rear window … 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":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing","category-fuselage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","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=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}