{"id":90,"date":"2019-09-24T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T00:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/?p=90"},"modified":"2019-10-04T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T15:15:52","slug":"sheet-metal-training-closing-my-knowledge-and-skills-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Sheet Metal Training &#8211; Closing my Knowledge and Skills Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before I start pulling rivets for real, I&#8217;m taking some time to train and practice related skills. There are many useful videos on the Internet. I also found a nice, inexpensive training kit from a homebuilt airplane company in Oregon. I&#8217;m signed up for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eaa.org\/eaa\/aircraft-building\/eaa-sportair-workshops\">EAA SportAir sheetmetal workshop<\/a> &#8211; October 26 &#8211; 27, at <em>The<\/em> <em>Museum of Flight Restoration Facility, Paine Field<\/em> in Washington. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emphasis of the training resources are centered more on solid rivets and the expectation of somewhat less complete fabrication than what the <em>Sling<\/em> kits exhibit, but it still seems useful to be introduced to working directly with the metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_3275-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_3275-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_3275-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_3275-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_3275-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Practice Parts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before I tackle the training kit &#8211; using its materials, I&#8217;ve been experimenting with scrap pieces of aluminum sheet and angle, I found at my local <em>Home Depo<\/em>t. It&#8217;s a good thing too. I surprised myself as I realized laying out and drilling holes for some short lines of rivets, posed more challenges than I expected. I made real scrap out of my scrap material. I&#8217;m learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I start pulling rivets for real, I&#8217;m taking some time to train and practice related skills. There are many useful videos on the Internet. I also found a nice, inexpensive training kit from a homebuilt airplane company in Oregon. I&#8217;m signed up for an EAA SportAir sheetmetal workshop &#8211; October 26 &#8211; 27, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,19,15,16,17,12,14,13],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}