{"id":5825,"date":"2012-05-17T19:11:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T05:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=5825"},"modified":"2012-05-17T19:11:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T05:11:30","slug":"patchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/17\/patchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Patchy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In cutting out the big ol hole for the battery box, I over shot on this edge. \"\"<\/a>I was left with plenty pieces of sheet metal to make a patch with. It’s always nice to patch with pieces of same metal, when the pieces are different thicknesses it can get tricky getting a good heat and speed in welding without blowing holes in the thinner piece. More guerilla body working as I hit the sheet metal as soon as I got home from work, trying to do all the noisy stuff early. Gas MIG welding isn’t too noisy so I was zapping away till pretty late, I think it was around 10:30 when I cleaned up for the night. Here’s the result:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It’s good enough to run for this Saturday’s rally. Now I just have to mount the battery and wire it in. I made the hole for the hold down threaded rod a little too close, so I’ll need to do something about that, but it looks like I can take care of this stuff Friday night, just in time! I think the hardest part is going to be finding a good grounding point.<\/p>\n

It ain’t the prettiest job around, but I’m confident it’s pretty solid!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In cutting out the big ol hole for the battery box, I over shot on this edge. I was left with plenty pieces of sheet metal to make a patch with. It’s always nice to patch with pieces of same metal, when the pieces are different thicknesses it can get tricky getting a good heat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saJYlx-patchy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5835,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}