{"id":2899,"date":"2014-08-24T20:59:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T00:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2014-08-31T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T14:06:07","slug":"fitting-the-tank-support-brackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=2899","title":{"rendered":"Fitting the tank support brackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a little nervous about fitting these two steel brackets that support the forward inboard end of each fuel tank, because I slipped up and had already fitted them to the fuselage before installing the wings. \u00a0The brackets are supposed to be clamped to the tank angles &#8211; the big D-shaped piece of aluminum on the end of the tank &#8211; then match-drilled to the fuse. \u00a0I was concerned that they might end up being misaligned, but fortunately that turned out to not be the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-23-17.39.55.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2901\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-23-17.39.55-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"2014-08-23 17.39.55\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-23-17.39.55-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-23-17.39.55-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>The right bracket fit almost perfectly after being bent according to plans. \u00a0A little adjustment with the vise and hand seamers got it just right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-23-17.40.05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2900\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-23-17.40.05-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Left tank support bracket\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-23-17.40.05-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-23-17.40.05-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The left bracket wasn&#8217;t quite so easy to fit&#8230;I had to tweak it a bit to get it flush with the tank angle, but in the end it came out fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a little nervous about fitting these two steel brackets that support the forward inboard end of each fuel tank, because I slipped up and had already fitted them to the fuselage before installing the wings. \u00a0The brackets are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=2899\">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":[16,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel-tanks","category-fuselage","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","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=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}