{"id":911,"date":"2010-08-23T17:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-05T07:56:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T07:56:23","slug":"fabricated-canopy-frame-wedges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/08\/23\/fabricated-canopy-frame-wedges\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabricated Canopy Frame Wedges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because of the angle the side frames meet the forward canopy weldment, there is a gap between the bottom flange and the splice plate flange. \u00a0To fill this, you have to fabricate a wedge out of aluminum. \u00a0This took probably one hour to make two of these, but it wasn’t as bad as other builders made it out to be. \u00a0The plans specify that it should be 5\/32″ thick at the forward end, but fortunately my gap was only 1\/8″, so I could use some scrap I already had on hand. \u00a0The scrap already had a radius on one edge that tucked nicely into the radius on the bottom flange of the forward weldment.<\/p>\n

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After fitting the wedges, I laid out and drilled four holes along the bottom flange.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I deburred all of the canopy frame components. \u00a0Next up is to countersink a bunch of the rivet holes and then start riveting this puppy together. \u00a0After that, it’s time to start on the canopy itself. \u00a0I was really hoping to get the canopy cutting done during August while it’s still pretty warm, but it looks like it’s going to stretch into September.<\/p>\n

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Because of the angle the side frames meet the forward canopy weldment, there is a gap between the bottom flange and the splice plate flange. \u00a0To fill this, you have to fabricate a wedge out of aluminum. \u00a0This took probably one hour to make two of these, but it wasn’t as bad as other builders … 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-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3001,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/3001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}