{"id":742,"date":"2006-03-13T17:07:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T22:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=742"},"modified":"2012-10-21T17:09:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:09:15","slug":"match-drilling-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"Match-drilling skins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the pitot mast installed, I went back to the right wing and began match-drilling skins after double-checking the wing box for twist and sag.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t too much to tell about this process &#8211; it&#8217;s pretty much the same as the left wing &#8211; with the exception of a couple of skin-to-rib holes that I couldn&#8217;t line up no matter how I clecoed the skins to the wing box. I tried adjusting the flutes around these holes, no luck there either. The problem holes are circled in this picture.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_743\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_holes_misaligned.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-743\" class=\"size-full wp-image-743\" title=\"wing_holes_misaligned\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_holes_misaligned.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_holes_misaligned.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_holes_misaligned-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misaligned skin holes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not wanting to drill the holes with this misalignment, I consulted Van&#8217;s and my tech counselor. They both agreed that an acceptable procedure would be to drill the holes, then fabricate a dimpled doubler plate that will be held in place by the wing-to-rib rivet. Sounds good to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the pitot mast installed, I went back to the right wing and began match-drilling skins after double-checking the wing box for twist and sag. There isn&#8217;t too much to tell about this process &#8211; it&#8217;s pretty much the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=742\">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-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}