{"id":895,"date":"2010-09-13T17:11:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T17:11:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T19:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:02:29","slug":"drilled-and-attached-forward-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/09\/13\/drilled-and-attached-forward-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilled and Attached Forward Strut Mounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drilled the forward strut mounts to the canopy frame using a #21 bit. \u00a0I was a little worried that the bit could damage the threads I already tapped into these holes but it was a non-issue. \u00a0The shavings did clog up the threads, but running the tap back through them cleaned them up nicely and the screws still threaded in snugly.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20100913\/IMG_8910.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8910.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center>I then clecoed the skin back on and opened the holes up to #12.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20100913\/IMG_8912.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8912.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center>I attached the mounting blocks using some scrap bolts. \u00a0The frame will eventually get countersunk and the skin dimpled, so these will be replaced with flush head screws, but this is fine for the remainder of the fitting.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20100913\/IMG_8914.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8914.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center>Here&#8217;s the inside of the mounting block. \u00a0The ball fitting for the strut will thread into the center hole.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20100913\/IMG_8913.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8913.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drilled the forward strut mounts to the canopy frame using a #21 bit. \u00a0I was a little worried that the bit could damage the threads I already tapped into these holes but it was a non-issue. \u00a0The shavings did clog up the threads, but running the tap back through them cleaned them up nicely &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/09\/13\/drilled-and-attached-forward-s\/\" 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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","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=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3919,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}