{"id":484,"date":"2006-05-28T20:10:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T00:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=484"},"modified":"2013-03-31T16:50:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:50:45","slug":"z-brackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Z-brackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Z-brackets were in place, I followed the Checkoway MethodTM and fitted the clecoed tank on the wing.<\/p>\n<p>With the tank in place the inboard Z-brackets were drilled, and after the outboard leading edges were removed, the outboard Z-brackets were drilled as well. Read and heed Van&#8217;s instructions to use a drill stop when doing this work &#8211; it&#8217;s damn easy to drill into the spar web or stiffeners if you&#8217;re not careful. Here&#8217;s a pic of the inboard bracket.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_zbracket_drill_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-485 aligncenter\" title=\"wing_zbracket_drill_1\" alt=\"Z-brackets drilled\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_zbracket_drill_1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_zbracket_drill_1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_zbracket_drill_1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the Z-brackets at each end of the tanks were drilled, the tank skins came off and the other Z-brackets were match-drilled to the baffles. Here&#8217;s the left tank with skin removed, just before match-drilling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_zbracket_drill_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-486 aligncenter\" title=\"wing_zbracket_drill_2\" alt=\"More Z-brackets drilled\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_zbracket_drill_2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_zbracket_drill_2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_zbracket_drill_2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With drilling complete on both tanks, the wings came out of the jig for our move to the new house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Z-brackets were in place, I followed the Checkoway MethodTM and fitted the clecoed tank on the wing. With the tank in place the inboard Z-brackets were drilled, and after the outboard leading edges were removed, the outboard Z-brackets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=484\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel-tanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}