{"id":2086,"date":"2009-12-28T22:26:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T21:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2010-06-14T22:28:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T21:28:56","slug":"finished-the-rudder-pedal-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/?p=2086","title":{"rendered":"Finished the rudder pedal assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I finally manged to put in the last hours needed<br \/>\nto complete the rudder pedal assembly.<br \/>\nFirst I dug out the F-6118 Rudder Pedal Brace, which supports the pedal assembly in the middle.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2087\" title=\"Fuselage 121 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-121-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It had to be modified a bit&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2090\" title=\"Fuselage 124 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-124-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2091\" title=\"Fuselage 125 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-125-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then I cut the center bearing block in half.<br \/>\nI had already drilled the bolt holes in this a while ago.<br \/>\nI used a small hacksaw for this, a bandsaw would have been much better, but I don&#8217;t have one. Ah well&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2088\" title=\"Fuselage 122 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-122-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2089\" title=\"Fuselage 123 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-123-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I clamped the Rudder Pedal Brace in place, and used my angle drill to drill it to the firewall angle.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2092\" title=\"Fuselage 126 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-126-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Last I drilled the bearing block bolt holes for the 3 rudder pedal positions.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2093\" title=\"Fuselage 127 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-127-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then it was time to install the brake master cylinders. After lining up everything, I used a short drill bit to mark the bolt hole positions.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2094\" title=\"Fuselage 128 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-128-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2095\" title=\"Fuselage 129 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-129-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All installed!! \ud83d\ude00<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2098\" title=\"Fuselage 134 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-134-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Last thing to do here, was to make some lightening holes in the Rudder Pedal Brace. I used a fly-cutter for this&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2096\" title=\"Fuselage 132 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-132-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2097\" title=\"Fuselage 133 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-133-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Next up is the floor stiffeners. I prepared for these by installing the forward fuselage bottom skin.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2099\" title=\"Fuselage 135 [400x]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/Fuselage-135-400x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style3 like-2086 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='2086' data-nonce='f7229be46f' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-2086 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-2086 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally manged to put in the last hours needed to complete the rudder pedal assembly. First I dug out the F-6118 Rudder Pedal Brace, which supports the pedal assembly in the middle. It had to be modified a bit&#8230; Then I cut the center bearing block in half. I had already drilled the bolt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forward-fuselage","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}