{"id":960,"date":"2012-06-17T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2012-06-29T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T17:16:08","slug":"12-3-1-prop-control-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/17\/12-3-1-prop-control-bracket\/","title":{"rendered":"12.3.1 Prop Control Bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"36\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 17 of 50 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/12-engine-propeller\/\">12 - Engine \/ Propeller<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Once the Mixture Control Bracket was installed, I moved on to the prop control. This one looked to be a bit easier. It&#8217;s just an &#8220;L&#8221; shaped piece of aluminum with pre-drilled holes to mount it to the engine. Which means that all I need to do is located and drill the holes for the prop cable clamp.<\/p>\n<p>Except that when I tried to put the bolt through the hole to mount the bracket to the engine, the bolt didn&#8217;t fit in the hole. By this point, I didn&#8217;t waste any time thinking about it, I just enlarged the holes to accommodate the bolts. Once that was done I mounted the bracket and determined where the holes for the cable clamps would go then drilled those.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the bracket with the cable mounted looking from the side, bottom and rear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-16-IMG_0988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-964\" title=\"2012-06-16 IMG_0988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-16-IMG_0988-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-16-IMG_0985.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-966\" title=\"2012-06-16 IMG_0985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-16-IMG_0985-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-16-IMG_0986.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-965\" title=\"2012-06-16 IMG_0986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-16-IMG_0986-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, of course, I don&#8217;t like the silver aluminum color so it gets painted too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-16-IMG_1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-961\" title=\"2012-06-16 IMG_1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-16-IMG_1000-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-16-IMG_0998.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-963\" title=\"2012-06-16 IMG_0998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-16-IMG_0998-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-16-IMG_0999.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-962\" title=\"2012-06-16 IMG_0999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-16-IMG_0999-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next is the throttle control. And that one looks like it will be a real pain. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"36\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 17 of 50 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/12-engine-propeller\/\">12 - Engine \/ Propeller<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Once the Mixture Control Bracket was installed, I moved on to the prop control. This one looked to be a bit easier. It&#8217;s just an &#8220;L&#8221; shaped piece of aluminum with pre-drilled holes to mount it to the engine. Which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/17\/12-3-1-prop-control-bracket\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"series":[36],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44","series-12-engine-propeller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}