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02-02-2014, 03:10 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: St. Paul, MN.
Posts: 4,792
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Decided to let it ride and not fix something that's not broken. Went out to hangar today (-7.at sunrise,) and spent a couple hours putting the elevators back on (all new hardware of course) I sure love squeezing in all those washers aside rod end bearings. Yeehah.
I'll put the VS on tomorrow and then make the rudder bottom fairing change to get rid of the snap bushing for the tail light and widen out a slot. Found too much chafing on the wiring.
In the meantime, it all gave me an opportunity to go over the the rudder, VS, and elevator with a fine inspection to get the progressive annual underway, I've been meaning to move it to too-cold-to-fly season anyway.
I'll plan on buying some HS parts from time to time over the years and slowly build a second HS. If the cracks appear, I'll just swap it out. the longeron attach point redrill isn't an issue. The shim makes a good drill guide .If I sell the plane, it'll be a relatively inexpensive A&P bill for the next owner.
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02-02-2014, 03:17 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Henderson, NV (KBVU)
Posts: 129
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One Crack! Top left side
Did the inspection this afternoon. One crack in the top left corner. Bummer!
RV-7A
635 hours
A little acro
A good bit of formation flying
180 HP Constant Speed Prop (Whirlwind composite)
Notches per the plans
Fewer than 10 grass landings
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Seb Trost
RV-7A
Boulder City, NV
Last edited by SebsRV7A : 02-05-2014 at 02:08 PM.
Reason: Add info
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02-02-2014, 03:22 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 40
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42-7
14.3%
Time for a margarita and football. Anyone feel free to pick up our running tally. 
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02-02-2014, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: 57AZ - NW Tucson area
Posts: 10,011
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I'll add another one.
Inspected a friends RV-6A, low time since a TX rebuild after a flip-over.
New horizontal bought pre-built.
Low hours on the new horizontal -
No cracks seen, and the hardest part of the inspection was removing the tight fitting HS-VS fairing.
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Gil Alexander
EAA Technical Counselor, Airframe Mechanic
Half completed RV-10 QB purchased
RV-6A N61GX - finally flying
Grumman Tiger N12GA - flying
La Cholla Airpark (57AZ) Tucson AZ
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02-02-2014, 03:35 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Cedar Hill, Tx.
Posts: 159
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Who do we contact for warranty? I think that these being a homebuilt nobody had to say anything about this. Thanks to Vans for their integrity. The integrity now has to follow on with the owner. I'll look at mine when it isn't so cold and wet.
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Metal Feathers Club
RV 7 N706CB
1st flight Oct 18, 08
S/N 72847 tip 200HP CS glass IFR
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02-02-2014, 03:50 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Yorkshire, England
Posts: 2,052
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We are doing the inspection on Tuesday.
No cracks found......
😎
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"I add a little excitement, a little spice to your lives, and all you do is complain!" - Q
Donated in 2020
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02-02-2014, 03:51 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central IL
Posts: 5,516
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jroser
Hello everyone,
A quick tally on the numbers so far listed on this thread:
Cracks found- 5
No Cracks - 40
11% so far on finding cracks in the hs
I will be checking my 6a tomorrow to report back.
Thanks
John
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My count is 8 with Danny King being the first -8. I am making a list with hours to make a failure probability plot.
2-6's
4-7's
2-8
Considering 5000 planes flying this number is extremely low, not to mention the crack is a soft failure, and no incidents are known in the fleet. One would have thought the 6's would have more hours and be higher in the reporting, but not yet. The population reporting here must be quite limited. Surely it will unfold with time.
posts go too fast to update the count!!
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Bill
RV-7
Lord Kelvin:
“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about,
and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you
cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge
is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.”
Last edited by BillL : 02-02-2014 at 04:09 PM.
Reason: updated
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02-02-2014, 03:54 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 40
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I did not include the factory 7.
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02-02-2014, 04:11 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: creswell Oregon
Posts: 23
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Looked at mine today no cracks
rv-6
tail built 1995
first flight 2000
0-320 c/s
1061 hours some acro
Steve Searle
Creswell Or
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02-02-2014, 04:12 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Livermore, CA
Posts: 25
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No Cracks Found
Inspected today per S/B 14-01-31
No Cracks
No Notch's
1995 RV-6, 715 Hours
0-360, 180HP
Constant Speed Prop
No Arco
Mostly paved, some grass
Danny
RV-6 N360DP
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