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02-23-2011, 03:06 PM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Vienna
Posts: 47
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Number of rivets in RV-7,8,9
Hi
ever since I started building, people that know of this inevitable ask me how many rivet this aircraft has.
Experienced something similar?
Does someone even have a number?
Just curious,
Thomas
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02-23-2011, 03:09 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Lockhart, TX
Posts: 206
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I'm dimpling the right wing on my 6 now. With the fuel tank I think that there's somewhere around 1500 rivets on the one wing.
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02-23-2011, 03:15 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
Posts: 15,408
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Chad Jensen counted every single rivet IIRC.
Might be in here.
http://www.chadandbrittne.com/RV-7.htm
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Mike Starkey
VAF 909
Rv-10, N210LM.
Flying as of 12/4/2010 
Phase 1 done, 2/4/2011
Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
Last edited by Mike S : 02-23-2011 at 03:17 PM.
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02-23-2011, 03:46 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Arlington, WA
Posts: 174
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Chad Jensen's numbers off his website. WOW!!!!
"Total rivets including factory set (wings & center section) 16,229
Total rivets set (including drilled out) 16,018
Total rivets set (without drilled out) 15,808
Total drilled 210
Percent set right the first time... 99%"
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Casey D. Stewart
RV-7 N957RV (right seat if I am lucky  )
C-150 N4265C for the PPL
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02-23-2011, 03:48 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: KRTS
Posts: 1,798
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Holy anal retentive OCD Batman!!!
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Next?, TBD
IAR-823, SOLD
RV-8, SOLD
RV-7, SOLD
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02-23-2011, 04:52 PM
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Senior Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
Posts: 15,408
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sig600
Holy anal retentive OCD Batman!!!
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Guess what the name of the town Chad lives in is???
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Mike Starkey
VAF 909
Rv-10, N210LM.
Flying as of 12/4/2010
Phase 1 done, 2/4/2011
Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
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02-23-2011, 07:10 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Coconut Creek, Fl
Posts: 56
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sig600
Holy anal retentive OCD Batman!!!
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X10, why would you want to know that? But I feel the same about builders logs. I'm an accountant by trade, I build tangible things to get away from that world. |
02-23-2011, 08:05 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Albuquerque
Posts: 297
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riiiiivetttsss
my therapist has advised me not to think about it
Dave
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02-23-2011, 08:22 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: lake constance
Posts: 244
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thing is... not the number of rivets you have to set matters at all. more important is number of problems/questions you face during the project. could be close to 16k. |
02-23-2011, 11:09 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Edgewood, NM
Posts: 122
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KayS
more important is number of problems/questions you face during the project. could be close to 16k. |
Ah, like tonight when just about every rivet turned out to be a problem. I'm well on my way to that 210 figure. 
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Mike Davisson
Edgewood, NM
RV-14A #140805
VS complete, Rudder in progress
2020 =VAF= donor
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