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12-16-2007, 01:19 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: syracuse ny/venice fl
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if i see 1 more clecoe...................
Just 1 more and I?ll scream. Just put the leading edges and the one of the wings together with clecoes today. From 6:30 am until 3:10 pm today. I am clecoed out!!! But made a ton of progress today!
I'll probably have a snack and go back to drill out the holes in the wing.
Then move the CLECOES from un drilled holes to drilled,,,,,, then I can DEBURR!
Does it ever end?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This better be worth it! I haven't even been in a RV! Tail done, wings half started! This will change 12-27-07, I am going to Florida for transition flight in a RV6A. Can't wait!
Happy holidays to all!
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12-16-2007, 01:23 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Oliver, B.C. Canada (Okanagan valley)
Posts: 786
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Merry Christmas!
Enjoy your holiday and rest your carple tunnel syndrome! 
BTW: it's worth every ache! 
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Lorne
RV 7a tip-up
Pre-cover MD-RA Inspected.
Canopy completed. Bonded with Sika-Flex.
Up on her mains, Firewall Fwd and wiring on going.
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12-16-2007, 01:26 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Maple Grove, MN
Posts: 2,331
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Quote:
Originally Posted by VETE76
Just 1 more and I?ll scream. Just put the leading edges and the one of the wings together with clecoes today. From 6:30 am until 3:10 pm today. I am clecoed out!!! But made a ton of progress today!
I'll probably have a snack and go back to drill out the holes in the wing.
Then move the CLECOES from un drilled holes to drilled,,,,,, then I can DEBURR!
Does it ever end?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This better be worth it! I haven't even been in a RV! Tail done, wings half started! This will change 12-27-07, I am going to Florida for transition flight in a RV6A. Can't wait!
Happy holidays to all!
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Let me guess - your parts came out of the box with lots of little holes already in them, each just waiting for a cleco? I have a story about tape measures, duct tape, cardboard, string plumb lines, flashlights, sharpies, lumber jigs, mylar film, etc. to tell you sometime. 
It will be more than worth it! I hatched a plan yesterday - I intend to be inverted when my hobbs rolls to 1000 hours next year.
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Alex Peterson
RV6A N66AP 1700+ hours
KADC, Wadena, MN
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12-16-2007, 02:37 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Watkinsville, GA
Posts: 626
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seek therapy to increae your clecoe tolerance before you get to the fuse!!
but hey, it is all worth it, just a new version of "no pain-no gain!"
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Marshall Jacobson
"Miss Sue"
RV-8 80749 slow build taildragger
7.5 year build first flight Dec 2005
SOLD at 540 hours and 10 years of FUN
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Watkinsville, Georgia
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12-16-2007, 04:36 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 5,685
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Clecoes are great
It is hard to imagine a person building a metal airplane not loving clecoes! The precision they bring to the process is fantastic. If you are blown away by this I'm afraid you have some real anxiety ahead when you have to work with things that are not so precise. The airplane is great but you have to use the best tools to get there and clecoes will help you get it done right. Take a longer view and do each task as an important one by itself.
Bob Axsom
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12-16-2007, 05:31 PM
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been here awhile
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Alabama
Posts: 4,300
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This better be worth it! I haven't even been in a RV! Tail done, wings half started! This will change 12-27-07, I am going to Florida for transition flight in a RV6A. Can't wait!
Give us another report on 12-28-07. I suspect you will love clecoes!! |
12-16-2007, 05:40 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 3,275
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My guess
Is that you don't read the trip reports from folks who do a lot of neat things in an RV. If you did you would see what lies ahead for you.
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12-16-2007, 05:40 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Huskerland, USA
Posts: 5,862
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Close your eyes and repeat after me....
Clecoes are your friends.........
Clecoes are your friends.........
Clecoes are your friends.
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RV-7 : In the hangar
RV-10 : In the hangar
RV-12 : Built and sold
RV-44 : 4 place helicopter on order.
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12-16-2007, 05:45 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: jacksonville il
Posts: 97
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there are 2 pnuematic cleco tools listed on ebay .one closed yesterday I think it went for 28.50 but dont hold me to that amount
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Tom CassonN806TC{resv} [] tcrv7@yahoo.comCessna 120 N76137
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12-16-2007, 06:44 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: syracuse ny/venice fl
Posts: 623
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Axsom
It is hard to imagine a person building a metal airplane not loving clecoes! The precision they bring to the process is fantastic. If you are blown away by this I'm afraid you have some real anxiety ahead when you have to work with things that are not so precise. The airplane is great but you have to use the best tools to get there and clecoes will help you get it done right. Take a longer view and do each task as an important one by itself.
Bob Axsom
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WOOPS. I DON'T HATE CLECOS i just don't want to see one for 24 hrs! LOL
actually they are kinda fun. especially those damdable clecoe clamps!! ouch. those i hate! |
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