{"id":900,"date":"2012-12-04T19:14:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T01:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2013-01-20T16:55:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T22:55:23","slug":"toe-boards-dec-4-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/2012\/12\/toe-boards-dec-4-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Toe Boards Dec 4, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been bugging me for a while now &#8211; I have been wanting to trim the top lip off of my new patch piece, but have been struggling with how much I could trim. \u00a0Placing it in the car was problematic as the lip was preventing it from being flush and kept it raised and wouldn&#8217;t sit in there straight:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/2012\/12\/toe-boards-dec-4-2012\/img_0028\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-902\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-902\" title=\"IMG_0028\" src=\"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0028.jpg 757w, https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0028-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0028-401x300.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then the light went on and I placed the piece that I had cut out of the car and used that as a reference:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/2012\/12\/toe-boards-dec-4-2012\/img_0027\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-901\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-901\" title=\"IMG_0027\" src=\"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0027.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0027.jpg 757w, https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0027-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0027-401x300.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will be able to trim that lip off and have room to spare! \u00a0So after I trim the lip, I will position the new piece and trim the opening in the car around what is left. \u00a0Then I will be able to butt-weld it in place and can start on the other side. \u00a0I will also be able to place the firewall bracket to use as a rough guide as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been bugging me for a while now &#8211; I have been wanting to trim the top lip off of my new patch piece, but have been struggling with how much I could trim. \u00a0Placing it in the car was problematic as the lip was preventing it from being flush and kept it raised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/2012\/12\/toe-boards-dec-4-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toe Boards Dec 4, 2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camaro","tag-toe-boards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}