{"id":148,"date":"2017-03-20T20:35:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/20\/vertical-stabiliser\/"},"modified":"2017-03-20T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T21:20:09","slug":"vertical-stabiliser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/20\/vertical-stabiliser\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertical stabiliser 06-01 to 06-04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to start referring to the plan numbers. \u00a0Workshop was signed off yesterday and I pressed on with the VS. \u00a0I did plenty of research last night and it seems that the trickiest part to this bit of the build is to get the skin to fit around the nose and tip rib. \u00a0Vans say to radius off the nose but I read another builder saying that on the advice of an 8 builder it needs about 1\/8th taken off with snips. \u00a0I tried grinding a radius but on the first skin fit it was obvious that it wasn&#8217;t going to be enough. \u00a0With my heart in my hand I took their advice and I snipped off the required amount and then use the Scotchbrite wheel to smooth it off &#8211; bingo, it fits and the #40 hole still has enough rib for clearances. \u00a0Other firsts include fluting the ribs to straighten them up. \u00a0Again, a bit worrying putting the fluting pliers to the metal but nice to see the ribs pull straight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_1563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_1563.jpg\" alt=\"Vertical stabiliser \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_1563.jpg 2000w, http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_1563-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_1563-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_1563-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPrimer ordered today from Aircraft Spruce via LAS Aero. \u00a0Decided on EkoPrime with EkoClean and EkoEtch to prepare. \u00a0Excellent tech information from Stewart Systems in the USA. \u00a0Need spray gun etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to start referring to the plan numbers. \u00a0Workshop was signed off yesterday and I pressed on with the VS. \u00a0I did plenty of research last night and it seems that the trickiest part to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"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":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"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=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}