{"id":1188,"date":"2017-03-31T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T01:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2017-04-03T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T01:12:28","slug":"passenger-wing-root-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Passenger Wing Root Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we set out to make and install a new wing root skin for the pilot side. The idea was to add an l-angle to the existing rib to build up a new platform for the skin to sit on, and of course to make a new skin piece that was wide enough.<\/p>\n<p>Using a ruler edge, we could determine how high the l-angle needed to be, so some cuts and clamps later the l-angle was in position.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/ShVbpt\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2936\/33009278273_092e9df00a_c.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pilot drilled l-angle\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new skin was created by tracing around the existing one and making it the required extra width. I drilled through the existing holes to make ones in the new skin and created a new line of holes for the l-angle by measuring across from the existing rib holes. I got carried away and drilled the rib holes when there really was no use for them any more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/TkmtcK\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2878\/33693202341_f19621641a_c.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Riveting the root skin\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything seemed to fit good so it was decided to go ahead. Before riveting I cleaned up inside the skin and also fastened down the sender cable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Tkmtu8\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3848\/33693203291_837bc84331_c.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ready for skin installation\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final riveted product<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/SWLiVC\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2907\/33437574410_0887c93318_c.jpg?resize=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Root skin riveted\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and a closer view of the edge<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Tkms6g\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3894\/33693198601_1ef81f4719_c.jpg?resize=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Root skin riveted\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With an eye to getting the side windows in, I enlarged the holes. At least until my drill ran out of juice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/ShV82M\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2932\/33009266923_146a2ecaa6_c.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Enlarging side window holes\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we set out to make and install a new wing root skin for the pilot side. The idea was to add an l-angle to the existing rib to build up a new platform for the skin to sit on,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=1188\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[5,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing","category-fuselage","category-wings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p320wU-ja","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","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=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}