{"id":72,"date":"2012-10-09T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/?p=72"},"modified":"2014-04-03T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T20:42:10","slug":"primed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Primed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progress seems very slow so I needed something to give me a boost.\u00a0 The rear end has had a lot of attention and a kilo of filler of which most appeared to be sanded off again. The photo below is from part way through the filling stage and I&#8217;ve come on a bit since then. It just needs final sanding and defect filling then will be ready for a primer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rear-filling-in-progress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75\" alt=\"rear-filling-in-progress\" src=\"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rear-filling-in-progress-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rear-filling-in-progress-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rear-filling-in-progress.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scuttle and A pillars were next for attention and to ensure that all was aligning correctly the wings and nose were trial fitted. Suddenly it looked like a car again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/front-trial-fit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74\" alt=\"front-trial-fit\" src=\"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/front-trial-fit-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/front-trial-fit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/front-trial-fit.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nose section required a bit of welding and took a few evenings to clean to bare metal and was the most awkward item to work on so far. I just couldn&#8217;t get it to stay still or in a position that I could comfortably work on it, hence 2 evenings work.<\/p>\n<p>To give me that boost and to clear some workshop space I decided to spray the front end. This will then allow me to drop the engine back in and move the hoist out of the shop into another shed. Here&#8217;s how it looks tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/front-in-primer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73\" alt=\"front-in-primer\" src=\"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/front-in-primer-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/front-in-primer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/front-in-primer.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress seems very slow so I needed something to give me a boost.\u00a0 The rear end has had a lot of attention and a kilo of filler of which most appeared to be sanded off again. The photo below is from part way through the filling stage and I&#8217;ve come on a bit since then. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/?p=72\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Primed<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mgmidget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpineapple.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}