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12-09-2009, 01:05 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Gunter, TX
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Still no kits
I just called to check availability for the RV8 empennage kit. I was told they are still producing parts and should be ready to ship in about two weeks. Suppose my options are: 1. sweep out the shop a few more times. 2. buy more tools (can't have too many) or 3. try to finalize whether I want an 8 or 8A (this has been going on for several months now). When the kit does arrive I'll just call it my "After Christmas" present!
Sky
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12-09-2009, 01:16 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Waco, Texas
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This is really nothing in compairson to the future frustrations you'll experience.
You'll screw up a part on a Friday afternoon and it'll ruin any progress for the weekend. Then you'll realize its a 2 day holiday on Mon and Tues. So by the time your order is processed and shipped, you're waiting week or week and a half. It happens to all of us.
Building an airplane isn't nearly as much about technical apptitude. It's really more about patience and attitude. The more you build, the more you'll understand that statement.
I'm still learning too.
Enjoy your time spent at Christmas and New Years. It'll probably be the last one you really get to take in for the next 5 years.
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12-09-2009, 04:47 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Mtns of N.E. Georgia
Posts: 1,322
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8/8A
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Originally Posted by skyking902001
or 3. try to finalize whether I want an 8 or 8A (this has been going on for several months now). When the kit does arrive I'll just call it my "After Christmas" present!
Sky
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Best way to finalize that dilema is to honestly answer the question: "What do I want to see when I open the hangar door?" 
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12-09-2009, 05:11 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: KSLC
Posts: 4,021
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or 3. try to finalize whether I want an 8 or 8A (this has been going on for several months now). When the kit does arrive I'll just call it my "After Christmas" present!
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Originally Posted by mannanj
Best way to finalize that dilema is to honestly answer the question: "What do I want to see when I open the hangar door?" 
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A ..............retractable..
L.Adamson --- RV6A
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12-09-2009, 05:44 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Mtns of N.E. Georgia
Posts: 1,322
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A ..............retractable..
L.Adamson --- RV6A
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Oh YES! Wouldn't that be awesome!
But with my pea size brain; I'd forget my checklist-----Think I'll stick with the 8! 
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12-09-2009, 07:14 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Gunter, TX
Posts: 314
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Originally Posted by L.Adamson
A ..............retractable..
L.Adamson --- RV6A
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No, what I'd really like to see is a retractable, with a turbine engine!
Sky
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12-09-2009, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Chandler, Arizona
Posts: 90
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Prep for building
Andrew: I read your prep list and your practice lists.......almost complete.........add:
Bandaides
Practice opening and applying Bandaid with two fingers while finger on your second hand is squirting blood on aluminum. 
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12-10-2009, 05:21 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Wichita, KS
Posts: 557
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That brings up another good point.
Since I know that at some point I am going to drill into my hand at some point on this project, should I go ahead and get it out of the way now? And I have the two weeks to recover.
Maybe I can make sure I drip a little on the practice kit to make sure the appropriate blood to aluminum sacrifice has been made.
Just kidding. Kind of.
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Engineering Flight Test Pilot/Engineer, CFI-A, CFII, ATP
RV-7 in work (See my build log.)
Empennage...Done (except rebuilding the rudder.)
Wings...Halfway complete.
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12-10-2009, 06:11 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Huskerland, USA
Posts: 5,862
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Originally Posted by N999ZA
That brings up another good point.
Since I know that at some point I am going to drill into my hand at some point on this project, should I go ahead and get it out of the way now? And I have the two weeks to recover.
Maybe I can make sure I drip a little on the practice kit to make sure the appropriate blood to aluminum sacrifice has been made.
Just kidding. Kind of.
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Absolutely! Also, take your fingers and hold them against the spinning Scotch Brite wheel, that will toughen you up!
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RV-10 : In the hangar
RV-12 : Built and sold
RV-44 : 4 place helicopter on order.
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12-10-2009, 01:46 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 963
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Don't forget the finger in the pneumatic squeezer, mallet on thumb (opps shifted to a DRT2).
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