{"id":448,"date":"2005-04-30T14:18:59","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T18:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=448"},"modified":"2013-04-05T06:43:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T10:43:51","slug":"trim-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Trim tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of days brought mixed success with the trim tab. Got the inboard tabs folded and was pleased with the results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/el_left_tt_bend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-449 aligncenter\" alt=\"TT inboard tabs folded\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/el_left_tt_bend.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/el_left_tt_bend.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/el_left_tt_bend-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The outboard tabs didn&#8217;t come out so well. They looked ok, but not great &#8211; sorry, no pics.. Got everything put together, then clamped the piano hinge into position and match-drilled it to the spar and skin. This is where things began to go south a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The plans call for a 1\/4&#8243; distance between the front edge of the hinge plate and the match-drilled holes. This leaves exactly 3\/16&#8243; edge distance between the center of each rivet hole and the aft end of the hinge plate &#8211; and that&#8217;s the absolute minimum for #40 hole. The clamps must&#8217;ve needed a few extra turns, because the whole assembly slipped a bit and some of the holes didn&#8217;t have the required edge distance.<\/p>\n<p>So, it was time to order a new hinge. And since I was ordering parts from Van&#8217;s, I decided to order another trim tab skin &#8211; just to see if I can do better the next time around. I may just cut off the outboard tabs and fabricate another riblet to take their place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of days brought mixed success with the trim tab. Got the inboard tabs folded and was pleased with the results. The outboard tabs didn&#8217;t come out so well. They looked ok, but not great &#8211; sorry, no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=448\">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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elevators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}