{"id":898,"date":"2010-09-09T17:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-06T05:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T05:16:01","slug":"worked-on-canopy-frame-reinfor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/09\/09\/worked-on-canopy-frame-reinfor\/","title":{"rendered":"Worked on Canopy Frame Reinforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished flanging the lightening holes and then fit the center reinforcement and drilled it to the forward channel. \u00a0The rear flange won&#8217;t be drilled to the skin until the frame is clamped back to the fuselage.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20100909\/IMG_8893.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8893.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The side reinforcements are much trickier. \u00a0The flanges placed around the holes severely distort them, and it takes quite a while to bend them even close to the final shape.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20100909\/IMG_8894.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8894.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After much fiddling, I drilled the forward flanges to the channel. \u00a0I then tweaked the aft flanges so they lay flat against the skin. \u00a0I need to do a little trimming along the inner edge (along the black line that&#8217;s partly visible on the left) to provide some clearance from the hinge supports. \u00a0The reinforcements needed to be shifted inward so that one hole that&#8217;s shared with existing structure will have sufficient edge distance.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20100909\/IMG_8895.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8895.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished flanging the lightening holes and then fit the center reinforcement and drilled it to the forward channel. \u00a0The rear flange won&#8217;t be drilled to the skin until the frame is clamped back to the fuselage. The side reinforcements are much trickier. \u00a0The flanges placed around the holes severely distort them, and it takes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/09\/09\/worked-on-canopy-frame-reinfor\/\" 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-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}