{"id":372,"date":"2010-10-14T04:23:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T04:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=372"},"modified":"2010-10-14T04:23:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T04:23:21","slug":"landing-gear-put-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Landing gear put together."},"content":{"rendered":"

2 hours.<\/p>\n

That’s not saying it won’t come apart again. It’s currently in this state:<\/p>\n

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I think I’m not kosher on the amount of threads showing on the bolts holding the wheel pant bracket on one leg, but I can sort that out tomorrow. But I have this theory: If things are assembled with all the requisite parts, those individual parts are less likely to grow legs and wander under appliances and places of storage to hang out with the dust bunnies. It’s like the Phantom Graveyard of Lost Hardware under there, like that scene in Heavy Metal when the B-17 crash lands on the island full of derelict planes, abandoned spaceships, and zombies. But instead of zombies, I have an assortment of fasteners and other hardware. <\/p>\n

The gear is ready to rock, but I need to get fire caulk so I can finish up the firewall installation stuff and put the engine mount on. Then I can put the plane on the gear, just for a hoot . Tailwheel’s on, why not give it a test roll? <\/p>\n

The engine is still at Tim’s. He’s backlogged, and my engine is all torn down, waiting for inspection. I’m not in a hurry, but I am in a hurry to find out how things cost, because I need to know what my avionics package is going to look like. The way my luck runs with engines, I’ll probably have enough left over to equip 313TD at about the same level as Kern and Rinker Buck’s Piper Cub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2 hours. That’s not saying it won’t come apart again. It’s currently in this state: I think I’m not kosher on the amount of threads showing on the bolts holding the wheel pant bracket on one leg, but I can sort that out tomorrow. But I have this theory: If things are assembled with all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,31],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"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=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}