{"id":550,"date":"2011-09-14T21:36:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T02:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2011-09-18T17:18:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T22:18:35","slug":"tin-snips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Trimming the edges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-qJ4aq6X5TVw\/Tm6Q3LmI4hI\/AAAAAAAAEF8\/D3a-aY8DyiM\/2011-09-12_19-04-29_108.jpg');\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"2011-09-12_19-04-29_108.jpg\"  href=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-qJ4aq6X5TVw\/Tm6Q3LmI4hI\/AAAAAAAAEF8\/D3a-aY8DyiM\/2011-09-12_19-04-29_108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;\" title=\"2011-09-12_19-04-29_108.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-qJ4aq6X5TVw\/Tm6Q3LmI4hI\/AAAAAAAAEF8\/D3a-aY8DyiM\/w200\/2011-09-12_19-04-29_108.jpg\" alt=\"2011-09-12_19-04-29_108.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a>\u00a0When Frank reunited the new floor with the shell last year, he made new aluminum wheel well covers. A very nice addition, but it meant having to re-cut the inner skins so it fit over the new covers. I was nervous about messing up the skin (you can&#8217;t put it back and it doesn&#8217;t grow out), so I used cardboard to create a guide for cutting the aluminum skin. \u00a0The template got me started in the right direction, but I still had to make several passes and dry fits before it was acceptable. \u00a0I think it came out pretty well, the bleeding blisters on my fingers from the tin snips are healing.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/lh6.ggpht.com\/--ac7Qr3KcAs\/TnZeWFtblLI\/AAAAAAAAEGA\/oTF-avVQR3A\/2011-09-18_16-39-47_168.jpg');\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"2011-09-18_16-39-47_168.jpg\"  href=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/--ac7Qr3KcAs\/TnZeWFtblLI\/AAAAAAAAEGA\/oTF-avVQR3A\/2011-09-18_16-39-47_168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"2011-09-18_16-39-47_168.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/--ac7Qr3KcAs\/TnZeWFtblLI\/AAAAAAAAEGA\/oTF-avVQR3A\/w250\/2011-09-18_16-39-47_168.jpg\" alt=\"2011-09-18_16-39-47_168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0When Frank reunited the new floor with the shell last year, he made new aluminum wheel well covers. A very nice addition, but it meant having to re-cut the inner skins so it fit over the new covers. I was nervous about messing up the skin (you can&#8217;t put it back and it doesn&#8217;t grow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosie.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}