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Old 12-12-2014, 07:57 AM
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Your wife is pissed because she has a airline companion pass from you spending so much on airplane parts but you will not go anywhere because you gotta work on the plane!

You get up at 5 am on work days to go to work but 4 am on days off to work on the plane!
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Old 12-12-2014, 11:48 AM
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Default Here's a couple

Your wife finds you bent over the kitchen sink holding pressure on your scalp, blood dripping off your elbow - because moments earlier in the garage you stood up under the end of the wing spar in the goal-post jig and "found" one of the wing attach bolts with your noggin. Thirteen stitches from my colleague in the ED. circa 1996.

Fast forward to tonight: you plan to unpack the GRT Mini-X the UPS man just delivered and wire up tempo cigarette lighter power to it, so you can play with it in the car and make airplane noises on tomorrow's family trip - while the wife does driving duties. Hey, it's a shake-down flight; she's essential crew.

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Old 12-12-2014, 12:02 PM
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Ha!! Been there, done that, got the fingernail almost healed. You know, I really thought it would hurt more than it did.
That's the advantage of new, sharp drill bits!
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Old 12-12-2014, 05:01 PM
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... Showing fellow builders the bandage covering the hole you just drilled in your finger and all of them laughing at you with the knowing smile.
Or... you grab the camera for a photo BEFORE you go for first aid...
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Old 12-13-2014, 04:48 AM
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Default Heart break

If you receive this message and feel a little sad ...
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Old 12-13-2014, 11:32 AM
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Default You might be an RV builder if...

...you tell everyone who looks at the various wing, tail and fuselage assemblies that "It will look like an airplane, some day."

...the employees at the airport, who have been checking your progress for the past several years, refer to you as "That poor guy."

...your new wife takes one look at your "airplane" and bursts into tears.

...you seem to spend more time drilling out bad rivets and removing poorly installed sheet metal than you do driving rivets and installing new sheet metal.

...you found a good deal on a completed tail kit and an unbuilt wing kit, so you now have an RV6 and 2/3.

...it is 25 degrees outside with blowing snow, but you go to your unheated hangar to work on the airplane anyway, because you will probably have at least an hour before you can't feel your fingers or toes anymore.

Unfortunately, all of the above is true.
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Old 12-13-2014, 12:27 PM
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Default Regarding drilled fingers

I definitely have not drilled one of my fingers as an "Amateur building an airplane."

I drilled my finger on a much loftier scale as a "Professional technician building spacecraft."

Finger drilling in the previous century not included.
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Old 12-15-2014, 07:21 PM
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... when you hand your late 1980's japanese car alternator to the guy at the automotive alternator repair shop, asking for a rebuild, and he asks you "what's this off?", you look him straight in the eye and calmly reply -- knowing full well he'd never touch it if you told him it goes on an airplane -- "not sure what it came off, but I'm using it on a custom off-road vehicle."
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Old 12-17-2014, 05:54 AM
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your friend no longer leaves the top down and the doors unlocked on his Porsche after you mention that his very comfortable red leather seats measure just 19-1/2 inches wide.
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Old 12-24-2014, 10:10 AM
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You are carefully wrapping the Christmas turkey with aluminum foil and your wife asks if you need some clecos.
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