{"id":1064,"date":"2006-09-06T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2013-03-31T17:45:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T21:45:14","slug":"wing-bulkheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Wing bulkheads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One more task to accomplish before declaring success on the wing bulkheads&#8230;drilling two holes out to 0.25&#8243; to accommodate bolts and spacers that hold the bulkhead halves exactly 1.438&#8243; apart. Why does it have to be exactly 1.438&#8243;? I don&#8217;t know&#8230;ask Vans. Here&#8217;s one bolt and spacer in place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_cthrough_spacer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1065 aligncenter\" title=\"fuse_cthrough_spacer\" alt=\"Bulkhead spacer fitted\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_cthrough_spacer.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_cthrough_spacer.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_cthrough_spacer-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the bulkhead halves fitted in place around the previously-mentioned spacers and four aluminum blocks that simulate the wing spar root attach points. These were precision machined by friend and fellow RV builder Rich, who just happens to own his own machining company. That&#8217;s a handy business to have when you&#8217;re building an airplane!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_cthrough_blocks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1066 aligncenter\" title=\"fuse_cthrough_blocks\" alt=\"Rich's spacers!\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_cthrough_blocks.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_cthrough_blocks.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_cthrough_blocks-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of those close-tolerance bolts took some persuading and liberal application of Boelube, but in the end they went in. This is an extremely beefy assembly&#8230;which you would hope it would be, since it keeps the wings attached to the airplane!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_cthrough_assembled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1067 aligncenter\" title=\"fuse_cthrough_assembled\" alt=\"Carrythough bulkhead assembled\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_cthrough_assembled.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_cthrough_assembled.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_cthrough_assembled-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more task to accomplish before declaring success on the wing bulkheads&#8230;drilling two holes out to 0.25&#8243; to accommodate bolts and spacers that hold the bulkhead halves exactly 1.438&#8243; apart. Why does it have to be exactly 1.438&#8243;? I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=1064\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuselage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}