{"id":921,"date":"2010-08-09T17:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-05T07:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T07:40:44","slug":"more-work-on-canopy-latch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/08\/09\/more-work-on-canopy-latch\/","title":{"rendered":"More Work on Canopy Latch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a break from the canopy latch handle and went back to the latch itself. \u00a0I trimmed the lower ear as specified in the plans for weight savings. \u00a0After taking this picture, I used the touch-up paint that matches the powder coat to cover the bare metal.<\/p>\n

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Next, I drilled the bushing blocks out to full size and temporarily bolted the latch into place.<\/p>\n

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Finally for this evening, I fabricated the idler and linkage. \u00a0The upper hole in the idler will connect to a pushrod whose other end is attached to the canopy latch handle. \u00a0Here’s the mechanism in the latched position.<\/p>\n

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And here’s the mechanism in the unlatched position.<\/p>\n

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I took a break from the canopy latch handle and went back to the latch itself. \u00a0I trimmed the lower ear as specified in the plans for weight savings. \u00a0After taking this picture, I used the touch-up paint that matches the powder coat to cover the bare metal. Next, I drilled the bushing blocks out … 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-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}