Show us a picture of your RV-10 progress.

[aturner]

Whew. Began bending longerons and skins on labor day weekend. Just finished bolting in the landing gear weldments. I was hung up for a few weeks till I got a friend over to help shoot some rivets, so I worked ahead, and now sections 30, 31, and parts of 32 and 33 are done. But 29 was a bear, and am glad to have it off my back.

[pierre smith]

...when you put the steps in, take care to not allow any rotational movement. This issue was discussed here, not too long ago. I mention it because on my bought-flying -10, both steps have some rotational movement and it's almost impossible to do anything about it now.

Best,

[aerhed]

Are those your little buckers?

[Mike S]

Originally Posted by pierre smith

...when you put the steps in, take care to not allow any rotational movement. This issue was discussed here, not too long ago. I mention it because on my bought-flying -10, both steps have some rotational movement and it's almost impossible to do anything about it now.

Best,

Yep, but there is a fairly easy fix for that, as long as the floor is not yet installed.

Get a piece of steel tubing that is a slide fit over the step mount, and rivet a nut plate to the exterior of it. You could also weld a nut on if that suits you better.

The steel nut/ring only needs to be wide enough to hold the nut----half inch or thereabouts. Slide it on the step mount, use JB weld or similar to fix it in place. Nut down toward the belly.

Last step is to drill an access hole in the floor, in line with the mounting bolt, so it can be tightened later if needed. Or, in the rather unlikely event you need to remove or replace the step.

Get a round snap in cover for the hole.

Done

[Phil]

Originally Posted by Mike S

Last step is to drill an access hole in the floor, in line with the mounting bolt, so it can be tightened later if needed. Or, in the rather unlikely event you need to remove or replace the step.

Pierre,
If you take a close look at your baggage compartment (Directly over the steps), I'll bet you find these reference holes. The plans have you drilling them and I'll bet the builder put them in. #30

Phil

[aerhed]

I was gonna go overboard on these, but I decided no, "get er done". So, this is how they came out.
http://i52.tinypic.com/2llc12e.jpg
http://i55.tinypic.com/123bj4g.jpg
AND ONE FOR DOUG while I'm at it.
http://i54.tinypic.com/t8223l.jpg [ed. And thank you for the guitar pic! dr]

[SeanB]

Nice work, Dave. All those nice details are adding up to something very great.

[Janekom]

I have done the maiden flight yesterday !



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[rleffler]

After many trails a tribulations, my Van's OSH special engine finally arrived. I won't bore folks with the delivery debacles. I'm just happy it finally arrived at 9:00pm on Thursday.

bob

[Janekom]

Wow Bob, Look at the serial numner on the box.
I bet you are about the only one who now has a serial number that you can almost remember.