{"id":2033,"date":"2011-06-30T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T19:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2012-11-06T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T14:49:00","slug":"repairing-the-mess-under-the-mothership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=2033","title":{"rendered":"Repairing the mess under the mothership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finished repairing the damage between the Mothership drop-target and Mothership hole today. Here&#8217;s how it went:<\/p>\n<p>Firstly I drilled four holes into the damaged area and glued 4 stumps of matches into the holes. This was to give the thin wall between both holes more strength.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2036\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2036\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2036\" title=\"IMG_2480\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2480-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2480-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2480.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dividing wall strengthened with matches<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With hindsight, I should have used toothpicks to strengthen this section, as toothpicks are made of a hard wood, whereas matches are made of soft wood. Still, better than nothing!<\/p>\n<p>Next was building the wall up with &#8220;PC Lumber&#8221;:<div id=\"attachment_2035\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2485.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2035\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2485-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2485\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2485-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2485.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dividing wall built up with &quot;PC Lumber&quot;<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Finally, having waitied for the wall to dry I sanded it down with sandpaper, trying to mould the right profile:<div id=\"attachment_2034\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2489-e1352205881318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2034\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2489-e1352205881318-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2489\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2489-e1352205881318-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2489-e1352205881318.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Repair ready for painting<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Just the painting left to do now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finished repairing the damage between the Mothership drop-target and Mothership hole today. Here&#8217;s how it went: Firstly I drilled four holes into the damaged area and glued 4 stumps of matches into the holes. This was to give the thin wall between both holes more strength. With hindsight, I should have used toothpicks to strengthen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}