{"id":1662,"date":"2012-11-02T16:33:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T21:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2013-02-28T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T20:02:19","slug":"building-a-canoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"Building a canoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a whole mess of parts that make a fuselage&#8230;or part of one. \u00a0Tempted by the promise of hamburgers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrbartley.com\">Bartley&#8217;s<\/a> and a big bottle of Bundaberg Over-Proof rum, Captain John slugged through rain and traffic to help me assemble and begin riveting the fuselage &#8220;canoe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1663\" title=\"Captain John and the Canoe\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8336-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8336-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8336-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8336-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We did some of the more difficult riveting on the fuselage, specifically the AD4 universal-head rivets that attach the seat ribs to the F-706 aft baggage bulkhead. \u00a0A single-offset rivet set was really handy, and it was good to have John there &#8211; he&#8217;s much better at shooting those rivets than I am. \u00a0There were a few places on the center ribs where we couldn&#8217;t get solid rivets in place, so I fell back to using Cherrymax blind rivets.\u00a0To paraphrase an old Tom Cruise movie&#8230;&#8221;Cherrymax&#8230;there is no substitute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8342.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1669\" title=\"CherryMax rivets\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8342-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8342-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8342-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8342.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now well on our way to having another real airplane part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8338.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1664\" title=\"A canoe with no sides\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8338-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8338-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8338-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8338-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a whole mess of parts that make a fuselage&#8230;or part of one. \u00a0Tempted by the promise of hamburgers at Bartley&#8217;s and a big bottle of Bundaberg Over-Proof rum, Captain John slugged through rain and traffic to help me assemble &hellip; 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