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06-12-2019, 01:19 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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How many Rivets are in a RV?
Don’t they say you are required to finish 20,000 rivets to complete an RV?
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06-12-2019, 04:20 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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I've heard around 15,000...
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06-12-2019, 05:29 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Vienna, VA
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I'd always heard that it was North of 14,000. Looks like the tribal knowledge for the -7/-8 says about 16,000.
There are a number of posts on VAF about rivet counts.
Here's one: http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...ad.php?t=68915
and another: http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...ad.php?t=58984
In 2010 Chad Jensen posted:
"There's the number! 16,225 rivets in my airplane to the point of being ready for inspection! I will have a few more when I get to the plate nuts for the wheel pants, but I don't know when that will be. So...to build an RV-7 to inspection readiness, one will use approximately 16,225 rivets, plus or minus a hundred or so depending on mods I would say."
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06-12-2019, 06:03 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Winston-Salem, N.C.
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I lost count..
Took 15 years to build my -4, and since I shot rivets all day at my day job, I never really counted. I did how ever remember a significant number of parts storage boxes that have B..dlight on the side and thinking I handled more labeled aluminum cans than aircraft parts. The -4 required much pondering between productive construction.. 
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06-12-2019, 08:57 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Boulder, CO
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fixnflyguy
....The -4 required much pondering between productive construction.. |
Well put! Applies to the -3B, too.
As for the number of rivets, do we have to count the ones drilled out and replaced, too?
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06-12-2019, 10:30 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Garden City, Tx
Posts: 5,118
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Quote:
Originally Posted by David Paule
Well put! Applies to the -3B, too.
As for the number of rivets, do we have to count the ones drilled out and replaced, too?
Dave
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And what about the ones that you drop and finally give up trying to find and just grab another one?
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Built an off-plan RV9A with too much fuel and too much HP. Should drop dead any minute now. 
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06-12-2019, 12:29 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
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After finishing my -4, I learned that its not the time to drive 12,000 (or whatever) rivets, it's not the time drill, de-burr, countersink or dimple 24,000 holes that makes a -4 a big project. It's all about how long it take to determine where to put those holes and working up the nerve to drill that first hole in each row!
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06-12-2019, 09:09 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Bradenton FL
Posts: 64
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If there are 15,000 in a -7, how many does it take to build a -10?
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06-13-2019, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Rochester, MN
Posts: 710
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mconner7
If there are 15,000 in a -7, how many does it take to build a -10?
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15,000 X 10/7 = 21,428 |
06-13-2019, 02:14 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Estes Park, CO
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Vans
Maybe Scott can run a program on the Vans CAD and give a definitive count per model.
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I cannot be, nor will I be, held responsible if you try to do the same things I do and it does not work and/or causes you loss, injury, or even death in the process.
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