{"id":286,"date":"2009-09-29T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/lick-o-paint\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T02:09:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:09:13","slug":"lick-o-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/trikes\/lick-o-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Lick O&#8217; Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We accomplished quite a lot today. In short, got the <a href=\"http:\/\/s122.photobucket.com\/albums\/o244\/sluggy9912\/Gabbys%20VW%20Trike\/temp\/?action=view%C2%A4t=IMG00321.jpg\">pedals<\/a> on and operational and got a first coat of paint on 95% of the trike.<\/p>\n<p>The pedals went extremely well. The brakes were even easy to bleed. The bad news, and it&#8217;s pretty minor, is that upon reflection, I don&#8217;t think the wheel will clear the fittings on the pedals in the event of a hard turn while braking, so I will need to move them. It&#8217;s just a matter of drilling 4 news holes.<\/p>\n<p>The paint was really an all day affair that Toni was working on before I finished the pedals and could join in. In no particular order, we masked off large portions of the trike, removed the fuel tank, cleaned a LOT of surface with acetone, finished painting the front wheel, painted the &#8216;faux&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/s122.photobucket.com\/albums\/o244\/sluggy9912\/Gabbys%20VW%20Trike\/temp\/?action=view%C2%A4t=IMG00327.jpg\">tank<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/s122.photobucket.com\/albums\/o244\/sluggy9912\/Gabbys%20VW%20Trike\/temp\/?action=view%C2%A4t=IMG00325.jpg\">body<\/a> of the trike. It will definitely all need another coat and we ran out, so we&#8217;ll have to buy another can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We accomplished quite a lot today. In short, got the pedals on and operational and got a first coat of paint on 95% of the trike. The pedals went extremely well. The brakes were even easy to bleed. The bad news, and it&#8217;s pretty minor, is that upon reflection, I don&#8217;t think the wheel will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/trikes\/lick-o-paint\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lick O&#8217; Paint<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}