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08-08-2017, 10:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: 36U
Posts: 243
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Buy the empanage kit!
Try that first. It's a small bite of the elephant, but it'll give you a taste. Be sure and join your local EAA chapter and get to know other RV builders too.
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Terry Small
RV-7 "Sasha" (1000th completed), IO-390, SJ cowl, ww prop
Deferred by combat (OEF '04 - '05, AH-64A) Donates by choice and love the OT humor.
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When you're at the end of your rope tie a knot in it, and hang on . . . .Joe Back
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08-09-2017, 03:15 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Locust Grove, GA
Posts: 621
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Daniel,
Check your private messages please. Thank you.
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Krea Ellis
Locust Grove, GA
DA20-A1 "Princess Amelia" - gone home to Amelia Island
RV-7A Phase 2
RV-10 under construction at Synergy Air South
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08-09-2017, 06:21 AM
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: Purcellville, VA
Posts: 283
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You said you have a girlfriend who's eager to help. You should really have no issues. Good luck and thanks for your service.
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08-09-2017, 07:11 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Sammamish, WA
Posts: 654
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Bucking rivets...
Like has been said, riveting is only a small part of what is involved in building an airplane.
But when it comes to bucking rivets solo, control is more important than strength.
Most of the rivets that you buck you will being doing blind. In other words you can't see both sides of the rivet at once. Usually it is the bucking bar side that you can't see, because you need your eyes on the gun side for proper placement of the rivet gun. You depend on feel and touch for the proper placement of the bucking bar over a rivet. Once you pull the trigger you depend on the feel, strength and control of the bucking bar hand to keep the bar in the right spot as it bounces on the shop side of the rivet.
A generous amount of duct tape over the corners of the bucking bar can help avoid damage to surrounding parts, if you loose control of the bucking bar. Bucking bars do want to wander!
You might explore a special hook attachment that made it so you could hold the rivet gun in your hook.
Of course a dedicated bucking partner makes this much easier for all of us. And some small percentage of the rivets require a bucking partner anyway.
Thank you for your service and sacrifice!
Good Luck, you'll have a blast!
Michael-
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Michael Burbidge
Sammamish, WA
RV-14A Empennage
RV-9A Flying?340 hours!
Last Donation: December 2019
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08-09-2017, 08:18 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: 08A
Posts: 9,500
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Originally Posted by theman1990
My concern is I'd like to do the QUICKBUILD but I worry about being able to rivet with one arm and a prosthetic.
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Contact Shayne McDaniel, co-builder (with son-in-law John Walker) of a beautiful RV-10, as well as several previous aircraft flown by himself and wife Phyllis. Shayne can tell you everything you want to know, from experience, and you'll enjoy speaking with him. Really nice fellow.
John is "Bluelabel" here in the forums. Send John a private message to get Shayne's contact info.
Welcome to the Borg network. You will be assimilated. 
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Dan Horton
RV-8 SS
Barrett IO-390
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08-09-2017, 08:42 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 1,967
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Originally Posted by DanH
Welcome to the Borg network. You will be assimilated. 
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Yup. Like others have said before, it's mostly mental. I believe you have "the sickness" and are already one of us. Glad to have you aboard the good ship VAF, and thanks for your sacrifice.
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08-09-2017, 10:13 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 119
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Very possible! A prosthetic hand clamp may work better than one may think. There are a lot of 3/32 rivets in the empennage kit, they will set fairly easy. A flat bucking bar clamped in place with good control should work fine. Give it a try.
Jim Fogarty
RV-9A Flying
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08-09-2017, 11:35 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: San Diego, Ca
Posts: 431
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DanH
Contact Shayne McDaniel, co-builder (with son-in-law John Walker) of a beautiful RV-10, as well as several previous aircraft flown by himself and wife Phyllis. Shayne can tell you everything you want to know, from experience, and you'll enjoy speaking with him. Really nice fellow.
John is "Bluelabel" here in the forums. Send John a private message to get Shayne's contact info.
Welcome to the Borg network. You will be assimilated. 
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Was just about to chime in on this... Shayne is missing his left arm at the forearm. He has an "apparatus" as we call it. Spring loaded hook.. before our plane he built a Waiex, and 2 Zeniths, and is now finishing a 9A. Of course, Phyllis helps out too. But it's pretty amazing what he does with no help... he does have two advantages, grabbing hot pieces of metal, and no worries about drilling into his finger  .
But yes, He would be a good person to talk to. He's on here, I'll find out his username.
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John Walker
RV-10 N265WD
"Miss Whiskey Delta"
BPE IO-540, FULL EFII
KMYF, San Diego, Ca.
KEOS, Neosho, MO
Crew Chief
Grove Aero Super Legacy Reno Racer,
twin turbo, IO-540,
full EFII management system!
Race Coordinator STOL Drag coming to Reno, 2019
"so I got that going for me... which is nice."
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08-09-2017, 12:00 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Macon, GA
Posts: 499
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Assuming you have a retired ID, you ought to shoot an email to someone in the Reserve refueling wing at McDill. I bet they'd be happy to have you over on a family day or similar to shoot some rivets.
In USAF parlance, I think you wanna talk to the Chief of the sheet metal shop in the 927th AMXG 
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Macon, GA (KMCN)
RV-7, Niner Fife Victor
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08-09-2017, 12:36 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 242
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluelabel
he does have two advantages, grabbing hot pieces of metal, and no worries about drilling into his finger  .
But yes, He would be a good person to talk to. He's on here, I'll find out his username.
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So can he still get a Repairman's Certificate without a scar from drilling his hand to prove he built it? 
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