{"id":992,"date":"2008-06-27T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T13:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=992"},"modified":"2013-03-31T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:25:12","slug":"pushrods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"Pushrods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on travel for a week or so since the last entry. I decided to work slowly, surely and patiently on the large aluminum pushrods, measuring two or three times and taking great care in cutting and drilling. The result this time was much more successful. Here&#8217;s one end of a pushrod with the threaded end match-drilled in place, done after the interior of the tube was primed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ail_pushrod_welds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-990 aligncenter\" title=\"ail_pushrod_welds\" alt=\"Welded aileron pushrods\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ail_pushrod_welds.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ail_pushrod_welds.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ail_pushrod_welds-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After deburring, the threaded ends were wet-riveted in place with pulled rivets. Why the wet-riveting? Those pulled Cherry rivets are steel, and I didn&#8217;t want any galvanic corrosion working on those pushrods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ail_pushrod_riveted.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-993 aligncenter\" title=\"ail_pushrod_riveted\" alt=\"Riveting aileron pushrods\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ail_pushrod_riveted.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ail_pushrod_riveted.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ail_pushrod_riveted-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After riveting, both pushrods got a final coat of primer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ail_pushrod_primed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-994 aligncenter\" title=\"ail_pushrod_primed\" alt=\"Primed aileron pushrods\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ail_pushrod_primed.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ail_pushrod_primed.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ail_pushrod_primed-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on travel for a week or so since the last entry. I decided to work slowly, surely and patiently on the large aluminum pushrods, measuring two or three times and taking great care in cutting and drilling. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=992\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ailerons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","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=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}