{"id":17,"date":"2006-01-14T20:01:51","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T01:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2006-12-04T12:52:27","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T17:52:27","slug":"and-the-beat-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"And the Beat Goes On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the miscalculation on the fabric is more of an issue than first imagined. The fallback supply, from my stockpile, has only marginal tear strength. It tested at 6lbs in a tongue tear test. (I didn&#8217;t purchase this lot of fabric for a balloon project and hadn&#8217;t bothered to test it before now.) Although this exceeds the 3 lbs that is the minimum reasonable, the other fabric has been testing at 12-15 lbs of tear strength. Given that this fabric is for use at the top of the balloon (the most critical location) using the best available fabric seems like a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>So, Kevin is going to have to order some more nylon fabric on Monday and have it shipped via overnight freight. Given that both the Nomex and the load tapes have yet to arrive, there probably won&#8217;t be much effect on the overall construction schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Sewing proceeds apace. One of the picture posted earlier today shows a gore that consists of 11 of the eventual 13 panels. Even at a fairly measured pace (by Kevin&#8217;s standards) from this point, it looks like Kevin will be ready to start joining the panels when last of the materials arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the miscalculation on the fabric is more of an issue than first imagined. The fallback supply, from my stockpile, has only marginal tear strength. It tested at 6lbs in a tongue tear test. (I didn&#8217;t purchase this lot of fabric for a balloon project and hadn&#8217;t bothered to test it before now.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xlta.org\/buildlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}