{"id":626,"date":"2005-09-17T18:25:37","date_gmt":"2005-09-17T22:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=626"},"modified":"2012-10-20T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T22:27:36","slug":"fabrication-of-the-wing-tiedown-plates-and-spacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Fabrication of the wing tiedown plates and spacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While working through my wing spar hole questions with Van&#8217;s, I moved on to fabrication of the wing tiedown plates and spacers. It was much easier to lay out the spacers on the bar stock, pilot-drill the center of each 1&#8243; hole, then cut the holes with a 15\/16&#8243; hole saw.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_627\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_tiedown_spacers_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"size-full wp-image-627\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_tiedown_spacers_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_tiedown_spacers_1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_tiedown_spacers_1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raw spacers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Regardless of what&#8217;s marked on the hole saw, they all seem to cut a hole that&#8217;s about 1\/32&#8243; larger than spec, so using a 15\/16&#8243; saw for these 1&#8243; holes left slightly undersize hole in each spacer that were easy to finish to final size with a Dremel tool.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_628\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_tiedown_spacers_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"size-full wp-image-628\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_tiedown_spacers_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_tiedown_spacers_2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_tiedown_spacers_2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spacers done<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John Sannizzaro stopped by today. He had a brand new tap that was just itchin&#8217; to be used on my tiedown plates. We tapped both tiedown plates&#8230;came out fine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While working through my wing spar hole questions with Van&#8217;s, I moved on to fabrication of the wing tiedown plates and spacers. It was much easier to lay out the spacers on the bar stock, pilot-drill the center of each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=626\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}