{"id":195,"date":"2008-10-12T01:31:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T01:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=195"},"modified":"2008-10-12T01:31:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T01:31:03","slug":"brakebeat-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Brakebeat nation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7 hours.<br \/>\nThis is kind of a double entry, from today and yesterday.   In this episode, I fitted and drilled the plastic bearing blocks for the pedals, drilled the pedal mount points out to proper diameter, and fit the center bearing support.   Then, in Act II, I made the brake pedals.  Like so:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/10-11-08\/IMG_0076.JPG\"><\/img><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s everything clecoed into place.  Bearing blocks are not yet drilled to the longerons, that was done right after this photo.   That was definitely a &#8220;Please, [insert deity of preference], don&#8217;t let me f**k this up&#8221; moment, because the metal they bolt onto runs the length of the plane and replacing would suck.  A lot.  It actually went OK.  I haven&#8217;t drilled the extra holes for adjusting the positioning of the pedals.  I&#8217;ve came to these measurements by sitting in the ship with a cold Tecate, simulating the optimum pedal location.  I just need to find a CFI roughly the same size as me, which is pretty normal.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/10-11-08\/IMG_0077.JPG\"><\/img><br \/>\nDetail of the bearing block and the pedal clecoed to the bolt hole on the weldment.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/10-11-08\/IMG_0078.JPG\"><\/img><br \/>\nPedal clecoed together, countersunk and roughed up.   I&#8217;m going to paint them later, so I figured I&#8217;d just rivet them together now.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/10-11-08\/IMG_0079.JPG\"><\/img><br \/>\n3 of 4 pedals ready for riveting<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/10-11-08\/IMG_0080.JPG\"><\/img><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s where I messed up and put the weldments in with the wrong pedal forward.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/10-11-08\/IMG_0081.JPG\"><\/img><br \/>\n4 riveted brake pedals ready to go.  The misconfigured weldments has since been fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 hours. This is kind of a double entry, from today and yesterday. In this episode, I fitted and drilled the plastic bearing blocks for the pedals, drilled the pedal mount points out to proper diameter, and fit the center bearing support. Then, in Act II, I made the brake pedals. Like so: Here&#8217;s everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}