{"id":393,"date":"2012-01-14T19:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T03:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stol750project.info\/?p=393"},"modified":"2012-01-14T19:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T03:07:23","slug":"strut-doubler-30m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Strut Doubler (30m)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The strut on the bottom of the wing gets a doubler for strength (I presume) and this is made from a pre-fabricated strut angle and a gusset. The first task was to position the strut angle and back drill into it from inside the skin.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7020\/6709199205_1e9fb904cd.jpg?resize=500%2C282\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><br \/>\nI did a lot of this from underneath the wing since it would be a real hassle to turn it over just for this small task. This made for some head scratching but was worth it in the end (I think).<br \/>\nTo determine the position of the gusset I clamped it in place and made some pilot holes in a couple of the pre-drilled holes in the gusset and then removed it for drilling away from the wing.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7026\/6709203989_883bd53ca1.jpg?resize=500%2C282\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><br \/>\nAfter deburring and priming I riveted the gusset to the angle.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7021\/6709208875_d8280e373e.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\nThen the assembly was riveted to the bottom skin, hopefully get some better pictures when the wing is closed up.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7156\/6709213561_1aeb40f913.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strut on the bottom of the wing gets a doubler for strength (I presume) and this is made from a pre-fabricated strut angle and a gusset. The first task was to position the strut angle and back drill into&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=393\">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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p320wU-6l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}