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02-13-2017, 08:55 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Alameda, CA
Posts: 191
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New Member/Needs help selling the RV Idea
Hello all,
Long time reader and donator to the website. I've been patiently waiting for the day when I'd have a chance to build an RV for my wife and myself. We're finally in a happy place and I'm relatively close to my airport. I'm on the waiting list for a hanger at my airport but I don't know if I want to wait to get started building.
My flight club has a hanger that isn't being used. I'm going in front of our board and am going to try to convince them to let me use the hanger to start building the RV (not sure of which model... 9... 14... probably a 14). I'm going to try to sell it by saying that all of the club members can help if they want and that they'd be getting some educational benefit to it. I'll of course supply the parts, the tools, etc. Once my hanger become available I'll move the project into that hanger but will still welcome all members to help in the build should they want to.
Does that sound like an enticing sell?
Thanks.
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02-13-2017, 09:00 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Boulder, CO
Posts: 4,428
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Didn't Tom Sawyer try something like that?
Dave
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02-13-2017, 09:00 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Gardnerville Nv.
Posts: 2,828
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Do you have a garage at home? if given a choice, I would not build one in a hangar. O, and welcome!
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02-13-2017, 09:18 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
Posts: 15,408
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Welcome to VAF!
Andrew-------welcome aboard 
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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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02-13-2017, 10:01 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Alameda, CA
Posts: 191
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Originally Posted by bret
Do you have a garage at home? if given a choice, I would not build one in a hangar. O, and welcome!
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I don't have a garage. I have an unfinished, creepy basement but its verboten. Plus its exactly 6' tall and so am I and I have to wear a hard hat to keep my scalp on. |
02-13-2017, 10:19 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: SF East Bay
Posts: 852
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Quote:
Originally Posted by David Paule
Didn't Tom Sawyer try something like that?
Dave
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I actually laughed out loud.
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RV-8 with the Showplanes Fastback conversion
Emp completed except for glass work
Wings completed except for bottom skin and glass work
Fuselage underway
N18451 reserved
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02-13-2017, 10:39 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Livermore, CA
Posts: 6,767
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What airport are you at?
I'm at LVK.
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02-14-2017, 07:09 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ridgeland, SC
Posts: 2,584
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Start it at home. Even 5 minutes to the airport can interrupt progress. Aske how I know
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Joint Venture with Aircraft Specialty
Teflon Hose Assemblies for Experimentals
Proud Vendor for RV1, Donator to VAF
RV7 Tail Kit Completed, Fuse started-Pay as I go Plan
Ridgeland, SC
www.tsflightlines.com, www.asflightlines.com
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02-14-2017, 08:21 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Edgewater, FL. KSFB
Posts: 1,116
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Sorry this doesn't address your question but as others have stated. Build at home. You will triple your build time if you build off site.
Read Vlad's story, I think he built most of an RV-9A in a NY apartment.
I was able to spend 10-20 minutes in the morning before work, sometimes lunch, 1/2 hour before dinner and a couple of hours after dinner since it was in the garage. Could have never done that in a hanger.
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02-14-2017, 08:28 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SC
Posts: 12,887
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkW
Sorry this doesn't address your question but as others have stated. Build at home. You will triple your build time if you build off site.
Read Vlad's story, I think he built most of an RV-9A in a NY apartment.
I was able to spend 10-20 minutes in the morning before work, sometimes lunch, 1/2 hour before dinner and a couple of hours after dinner since it was in the garage. Could have never done that in a hanger.
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Same suggestion and story here.
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RV-9 (Yes, it's a dragon tail)
O-360 w/ dual P-mags
Build the plane you want, not the plane others want you to build!
SC86 - Easley, SC
www.repucci.com/bill/baf.html
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