{"id":373,"date":"2010-10-10T18:06:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2012-02-05T19:26:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T00:26:23","slug":"first-exterior-aluminum-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Gaining experience&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exterior aluminum skin repair, check. \u00a0Thanks again to Frank for the pre-cut sheet and to Craig for being on the buck end. \u00a0I trimmed the original hole and drilled through Rosie&#8217;s skin and bucked solid rivets, and no major catastrophe happened. \u00a0This hole will have a sky light, but I tried out the new Fan-tastic vent replacement and it fit perfectly. \u00a0I still need to order a sky light.<\/p>\n<p>Clecos in place after drilling out the holes<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/lh4.ggpht.com\/-LJYUckc8dXk\/Tkh4dj5x0JI\/AAAAAAAAEQ0\/EMPdlWteQaY\/w600\/2010-10-10_13-06-27.jpg');\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"2010-10-10_13-06-27.jpg\"  href=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/-LJYUckc8dXk\/Tkh4dj5x0JI\/AAAAAAAAEQ0\/EMPdlWteQaY\/w600\/2010-10-10_13-06-27.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"2010-10-10_13-06-27.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/-LJYUckc8dXk\/Tkh4dj5x0JI\/AAAAAAAAEQ0\/EMPdlWteQaY\/w500\/2010-10-10_13-06-27.jpg\" alt=\"2010-10-10_13-06-27.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got my new clecos all goopy using up a tube of Sikaflex 721. \u00a0Frank said to use a lot and I did, but I cleaned up the mess that oozed out. \u00a0Craig and I did a G-R-E-A-T job bucking the rivets. \u00a0They looked almost as good as Frank and Steve&#8217;s. \u00a0The sun was sliding down behind Snyder Hill before I got the picture taken of the newly installed aluminum so it&#8217;s a bit dark.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-HrIf8pDqIKw\/Tkh4cyW_klI\/AAAAAAAAEQ0\/0v9n98BN-tM\/w600\/2010-10-10_17-09-27_923.jpg');\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"2010-10-10_17-09-27_923.jpg\"  href=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-HrIf8pDqIKw\/Tkh4cyW_klI\/AAAAAAAAEQ0\/0v9n98BN-tM\/w600\/2010-10-10_17-09-27_923.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"2010-10-10_17-09-27_923.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-HrIf8pDqIKw\/Tkh4cyW_klI\/AAAAAAAAEQ0\/0v9n98BN-tM\/w500\/2010-10-10_17-09-27_923.jpg\" alt=\"2010-10-10_17-09-27_923.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read about the air conditioner removal in previous posts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exterior aluminum skin repair, check. \u00a0Thanks again to Frank for the pre-cut sheet and to Craig for being on the buck end. \u00a0I trimmed the original hole and drilled through Rosie&#8217;s skin and bucked solid rivets, and no major catastrophe happened. \u00a0This hole will have a sky light, but I tried out the new Fan-tastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}