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05-05-2014, 08:08 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Lee's Summit, MO
Posts: 747
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Originally Posted by AWeingram (RV14)
I had hoped to keep the aircraft in bare metal AA retrojet paint scheme for one year before painting it ( I'm not nearly a neat/clean freak enough to own a bare metal plane over the long term.....). I guess I can stop worrying about that now....
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An old time IA told me that everyone starts out thinking, "man this thing is going to look good polished" and ends up thinking "I wonder what color of paint would look good on this thing?".
Keep going 
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Robert Williams
Lee's Summit, MO
RV-8 - Empennage & Wings Done
Working on Fuse
O-360-A1A
1946 Cessna 120
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05-05-2014, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Orlando, Florida
Posts: 340
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I have NEVER done that. Except the very first time I tried it! Luckily it was on the Vans practice tool box. I am so scared of messing up my skins that I have not been riveting outside the tool box. Somehow, I think I will mess up....I feel your pain man 
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Manny Oro
RV-6/A
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05-05-2014, 10:15 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Sussex County NJ
Posts: 19
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Thanks for the love guys,
I can't wait to come back and tell you about the half dozen or so half moon dents that will happen when I try to keep going at some point in the future when tired and then the rivet gun slips off the head... The fact that I can predict it would make you THINK I could prevent it, but the envelope ain't spandex, and sooner or later I will probably over stretch it again <sigh>
Onward tomorrow. My cherry is broke, and my kit ain't perfect anymore....hopefully I'm the only one who will be able to tell...
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Andrew
RV14A
Serial Number 140094
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05-06-2014, 08:13 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Estes Park, CO
Posts: 3,947
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BTDT
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Originally Posted by JDBoston
Though I would see what Vans has to say, I did something similar in the middle of the Vertical stab for the 9 I was building. I was dimpling so quickly with the c-frame that I didn't have one of the holes lined up properly and wham.... Something like what you see there.
I 'fixed' it by putting two new rivets one each to the left and right of the original hole spaced evenly between the others. You can then fill the botched hole when painting and most likely it won't be noticed. Let's see what others have to say. A vertical stab skin though is not a huge amount of money in the grand scheme of things.
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+1
Been there.
This is a good fix. Make sure you follow the edge spacing rule. There should be plenty of space to put two more in and abandon the bad one.
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Larry Larson
Estes Park, CO
http://wirejockrv7a.blogspot.com
wirejock at yahoo dot com
Donated 12/03/2019, plus a little extra.
RV-7A #73391, N511RV reserved (2,000+ hours)
HS SB, empennage, tanks, wings, fuse, working finishing kit
Disclaimer
I cannot be, nor will I be, held responsible if you try to do the same things I do and it does not work and/or causes you loss, injury, or even death in the process.
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05-06-2014, 10:33 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Sussex County NJ
Posts: 19
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Just to confirm what everyone has said, email came back from vans saying deburr and build on....
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Andrew
RV14A
Serial Number 140094
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05-06-2014, 11:38 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Burleson, TX
Posts: 117
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Originally Posted by AWeingram (RV14)
Just to confirm what everyone has said, email came back from vans saying deburr and build on....
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I wish I could do that. Sometimes my OCD becomes CDO and it won't let me. 
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Ken
?Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease.? Anonymous
Building an RV-7
Empennage complete, fuselage 75%, wings 75%.
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05-06-2014, 03:29 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Sussex County NJ
Posts: 19
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I have my own exciting brand of ADD and OCD mixed together!
You should see me go off on a tangent, sometimes for 100s of miles!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken Martin
I wish I could do that. Sometimes my OCD becomes CDO and it won't let me. 
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Andrew
RV14A
Serial Number 140094
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