{"id":333,"date":"2004-12-31T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=333"},"modified":"2012-10-15T11:07:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:07:48","slug":"learning-how-to-roll-and-close-the-rudder-leading-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Learning how to roll and close the rudder leading edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_334\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rud_le_closing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334\" class=\"size-full wp-image-334\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rud_le_closing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rud_le_closing.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rud_le_closing-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get bent!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The next adventure in learning was how to roll and close the rudder leading edge. I bought both 7\/8&#8243; and 1&#8243; dowels from Home Depot, not knowing which one would work better. As it turns out, the 1&#8243; dowel is a better choice; following Van&#8217;s directions with a smaller diameter dowel leads to a rolled edge that has a lot of curvature toward the front edge, but not enough at the rear edge (next to the spar) to make closing a little easier. I tried moving the dowel a little closer to the spar, but it was tough to get it to stay there. Generally after a couple of bends on each side, the edge was ready for closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next adventure in learning was how to roll and close the rudder leading edge. I bought both 7\/8&#8243; and 1&#8243; dowels from Home Depot, not knowing which one would work better. As it turns out, the 1&#8243; dowel is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=333\">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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rudder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}