{"id":791,"date":"2007-07-16T17:46:03","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T21:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=791"},"modified":"2012-10-21T17:47:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:47:18","slug":"its-time-to-dimple-the-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"It’s time to dimple the skins"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to dimple the skins. Dimpling a relatively stiff part like a leading edge is easy to do with minimal help, but the wing skins are large and floppy. Even with Ellen’s help, some additional support was needed. So I dusted off the support table plans that came with the DRDT-2 and made a runto Home Depot for some particle board and carpet remnants. Throw in some wood glue, wood screws and a little elbow grease, and voila – a dimpling stand.<\/p>\n

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Spar-to-skin countersinks<\/p><\/div>\n

With an hour’s help from my awesome, wonderful wife, the skins were dimpled. Following that, I whipped out the squeezer and dimpled the wing inspection plates and corresponding screw holes in the wing skins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time to dimple the skins. Dimpling a relatively stiff part like a leading edge is easy to do with minimal help, but the wing skins are large and floppy. Even with Ellen’s help, some additional support was needed. So … Continue reading →<\/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-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}