{"id":102,"date":"2010-09-12T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T16:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stol750project.info\/?p=102"},"modified":"2010-09-12T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T16:36:16","slug":"day-8-rudder-complete-1h-50m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Day 8: Rudder Complete! (1h 50m)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to give the skin a uniform appearance, I marked a 10mm line out from the holes on the skin and trimmed the edge using the snips. I also cut away the overhanging metal from where the skin touches the tip rib. Gave the edges a good filing (and cut myself in the process).<\/p>\n<p>From there I reassembled the skins onto the rudder and cleco&#8217;d everything in place so that it could be riveted, and then got to it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4154\/4986808685_4646c352a5_m.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4154\/4986808685_4646c352a5_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" title=\"Ready for riveting\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4149\/4987412006_1f73f3d5ac_m.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4149\/4987412006_1f73f3d5ac_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" title=\"Riveting\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4091\/4987412754_381746ed34_m.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4091\/4987412754_381746ed34_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" title=\"One Side done\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One lesson learned from this: get an air riveter! My hand was sore and blistered after all that riveting, and I am sure it is nothing compared to the amount needed for all the other kits. After a little hard work, the rudder was complete:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4107\/4987415686_84065bfb91_z.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4107\/4987415686_84065bfb91_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" title=\"Rudder done\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trimmed skins and deburred all edges and holes. Reassembled skins and riveted everything to complete the rudder. The rudder is done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=102\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-rudder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p320wU-1E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}