The Spruce Moose Deuce is Under Way!

[sprucemoose]

After building my slooooowwwwbuuuiiiiiild-6, and swearing up and down that I could do another one in half the time with twice the quality...

After doing TC inspections on all these new-fangled matched hole kits, and having to wipe drool off afterwards...

After 2 1/2 years of great flying in my -6, tempered by constant thoughts of, "I wish I had done........."

After listening to Falcon's and Pappy's constant refrain of, "there's a fix for that..."

After getting the blessing from the Mrs., who of course is accustomed to staring at the back of my head from the rear seat of our HARLEY...

And, of course, after learning of Van's extremely generous "Repeat Offender" discount...

After all that, on 10-19-06, I took delivery of my RV-8 tail kit. The Moose II is officially under way!

BTW- what kind of primer do you guys think I should use?

[gpiney]

"BTW- what kind of primer do you guys think I should use?"

Any quality rattle can self-etching primer. Why waste all that time with alodining and 2-part primers. The cleanup alone on that method is probably a couple of hundred hours over the life of the project.

[cytoxin]

why paint the inside if your not gonna paint the outside.
btw this doesnt mean you'll have to buy another diamond does it.

[Rick6a]

Originally Posted by sprucemoose

After building my slooooowwwwbuuuiiiiiild-6, and swearing up and down that I could do another one in half the time with twice the quality..... After all that, on 10-19-06, I took delivery of my RV-8 tail kit. The Moose II is officially under way!BTW- what kind of primer do you guys think I should use?

Hey Jeff,
That empennage kit is so far advanced from our slow build RV-6 kits you won't believe it. Remember how tedius it was to make all those control surface stiffeners? Now they come on a stick, notched for cutout and predrilled of course. After dimpling and deburring, I accidently attached the left hand horizontal stab skin on the right side and didn't discover the error till I was almost done riveting....only because I noticed the horizontal was laying on the table upside down instead of rightside up. It made no difference whatsoever, the hole pattern is that precise. I recall an RV8 builder who accidently built both wings either left or right...I don't recall. Now he had a problem! Anyway, the empennage kit went together in less than 3 weeks of mostly waiting for the primer to dry! Which kind? Why Akzo, of course!

[frankh]

Originally Posted by gpiney

"BTW- what kind of primer do you guys think I should use?"

Any quality rattle can self-etching primer. Why waste all that time with alodining and 2-part primers. The cleanup alone on that method is probably a couple of hundred hours over the life of the project.

Of the skins...(just do between the mating surfaces)...Unless you live in Florida.

Frank...Zenair Zodiac made entirely of of 6061, no primer and no corrosion after 7 years.

[gpiney]

Originally Posted by frankh

Of the skins...(just do between the mating surfaces)...Unless you live in Florida.

Frank...Zenair Zodiac made entirely of of 6061, no primer and no corrosion after 7 years.

Frank,

You are right. I am just doing things like ribs, spars & stiffeners. The interior skin just gets shot on the rivet lines.
I live across the street from a river and 1.5 miles from the Atlantic. Not too worried about it.
It looks like the empennage will take 5 rattlecans.

[sprucemoose]

Guys, I was kidding about the primer. Musta been too early in the morning. 'course, we haven't had a good primer war in a while.

On a serious note, one of the things I learned from the first project is what kind of primer to use. I tried several different types over the course of construction, from Variprime to AKZO to zinc chromate to various rattle cans. SW988 is my primer of choice, and only and non-alclad parts and mating surfaces.

[Jekyll]

You have been baited by a master!

Jekyll

[jimpappas]

Jeff,

Way to go!

Hope to visit this one someday too.

Be well.

[robertahegy]

Moose!!! I would have thought you to be so in love that only a side by side 7 would do. Separated already?!?!?!