{"id":1214,"date":"2016-10-22T19:34:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2019-01-12T16:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T16:01:15","slug":"rudder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Rudder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rudder is the part in orange below:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Statut1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20%\" height=\"20%\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe RV7 rudder skin is extremely thin : it must be handled with care and also to pay attention to the preparation of aluminum.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe skin is reinforced with stiffeners need to cut through 1\/3 of the length , round the edges , being careful to respect the distance edge with the holes.<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4993.jpg\" alt=\"Stiffners_cutting\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOnce the stiffeners cut &#038; deburred they are adjust with clecos on the skin. Time to drill the holes size 40. The skin is then deburred.<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4995.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4998.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4996.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe skin is dimpled.<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_5001.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nStiffeners are dimpled , they are then completely flattened.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe whole is then painted with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/anti-corrosion-dilem\/\">anti-corrosion<\/a>.<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/stiffners.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/skin.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSame operations with the second part of the skin after a long period of building inactivity due to:<br \/>\n  &#8211; A moving,<br \/>\n  &#8211; Work (some still in progress &#8230;)<br \/>\n  &#8211; A major career change.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0146.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nMy son is motivated: the hole must be perpendicular to the skin so that it has the right size, isn&#8217;it Maxence!<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0130.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0131.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAfter playing with primer on the skin and the stiffeners: back riveting! Great result! Be careful not to over crush the rivets so that they are not too tight.<br \/>\nEven after a long inactivity period, no problem for the resumption provided that you have the right rivet gun pressure!<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0318.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0316.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAssembling the skeleton of the rudder, no difficulty and even with a little help<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0320.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0125.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_0145.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rudder is the part in orange below: The RV7 rudder skin is extremely thin : it must be handled with care and also to pay attention to the preparation <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/?p=1214\"><div class=\"readon\">Read more<\/div><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[493],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flying-rv7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}