{"id":152,"date":"2020-09-03T19:39:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/?p=152"},"modified":"2020-09-20T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:50:18","slug":"practice-kit-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/2020\/09\/03\/practice-kit-part-deux\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice Kit, Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/09\/kit-part-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/09\/kit-part-2.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/09\/kit-part-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/09\/kit-part-2-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Having survived Practice Kit Part #1, we&#8217;ve now moved on to Part #2: the Aerfoil Section! The goal for this kit is to further hone your skills by building a small (12&#8243; wide) aerfoil section, which includes 2 skins, 4 ribs, a spar, and 2 caps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This one is moving along at a nice clip. We&#8217;re at the point where we&#8217;re ready to start riveting&#8230;well, almost. The ribs on this one needed to be trimmed and rounded, and it looks like we didn&#8217;t take off enough material at the trailing edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the assembly process includes back-riveting the small ribs to the skins. They must be Mini-Ribs, because my back rivet set won&#8217;t &#8220;fit&#8221; over the rivet&#8230;the holes are too close to the bend. I may have to make a small &#8220;modification&#8221; to the back rivet set and shave off a bit of the sleeve&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-12-at-2.50.08-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-12-at-2.50.08-PM.png 900w, https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-12-at-2.50.08-PM-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-12-at-2.50.08-PM-768x374.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>Notice how thick the tension sleeve is.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I may just grind a flat side into the Delrin tension sleeve so that it can actually get the flat set onto the rivet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having survived Practice Kit Part #1, we&#8217;ve now moved on to Part #2: the Aerfoil Section! The goal for this kit is to further hone your skills by building a small (12&#8243; wide) aerfoil section, which includes 2 skins, 4 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/2020\/09\/03\/practice-kit-part-deux\/\">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":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","tag-learning-kit-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}