{"id":271,"date":"2008-03-26T21:34:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T20:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/?p=271"},"modified":"2008-11-03T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T22:40:00","slug":"preparing-spars-3%c2%bdh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Preparing spars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I arranged all the rivets from the wing hardware and the leftover rivets from the empenage into a storage cabinet\u00a0I bought. This will be much easier to manage, compared to having a big pile af small plastic- and paperbags! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/wings-002-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"wings-002-400\u00d7533.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">After that I began working a bit on the main spars. The inboard leading edges of the wings are fueltanks. These get attached to the main spars by several flathead screws. So, a lot of platenuts has to be installed in the spars.<br \/>\nFirst I drilled, then countersunk the holes for the rivets that holds the nutplates.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/wings-003-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"wings-003-400\u00d7533.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Then I riveted on the nutplates. The pneumatic squeezer\u00a0was great for this!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/wings-005-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"wings-005-400\u00d7300.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Finally both main spars are done. That&#8217;s a lot of platenuts!!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/wp-content\/wings-006-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"wings-006-400\u00d7300.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Next thing is to countersink the screw holes to fit the dimples in the fuel tank skin. There is a lot of disgussion about this amongst RV-builders, some believe its better to countersink these holes before installing the platenuts, using a guide tool for the cutter. Vans tell you to install the platenuts and use these as guide, and as far as\u00a0I can tell from builders who have tried both, there is not much difference. So,\u00a0I desided to go the easy way, Vans way. I tried to countersink a few holes before calling it quits, it worked great. By the way, I have a special pneumatic drill for this, running 500 rpm.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style3 like-271 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='271' data-nonce='7a0d6dd598' 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-271 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-271 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I arranged all the rivets from the wing hardware and the leftover rivets from the empenage into a storage cabinet\u00a0I bought. This will be much easier to manage, compared to having a big pile af small plastic- and paperbags! \ud83d\ude09 After that I began working a bit on the main spars. The inboard leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}