{"id":134,"date":"2017-03-11T20:48:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/?p=134"},"modified":"2017-03-11T20:51:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T20:51:24","slug":"practice-project-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/11\/practice-project-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice project started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered the Vans practice project with the Empennage kit and have made a start. \u00a0Quite a bit of learning here with stiffeners requiring to be cut from angle material and the first tentative go with the snips. \u00a0Luckily had a visit from Neil, a local guy who is about to start a 9a build and had some good tips picked up from the LAA metalwork day.<\/p>\n<p>Have been practicing with some scrap and also the Cleaveland Tools phone\/tablet holder so back riveting wasn&#8217;t a complete surprise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-135\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1531-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Cleaveland Tools practice project\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1531-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1531-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1531-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, stiffeners are cut, match drilled, deburred, dimpled and started to be back riveted to the skins. \u00a0Just need an independent judge to see if I&#8217;m doing this right.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1556-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Back riveted skin\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1556-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1556-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1556-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered the Vans practice project with the Empennage kit and have made a start. \u00a0Quite a bit of learning here with stiffeners requiring to be cut from angle material and the first tentative go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}