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10-12-2010, 03:20 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Elkhart, Indiana
Posts: 1,186
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This thread is HILARIOUS! I had completely forgotten that I'd done that ... but it's all coming back to me now ... 
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Don McNamara
Peoria, AZ
Builder: RV-8 "Smokey"
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10-12-2010, 04:33 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Stuck in Lodi CA
Posts: 310
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I cut two left angle brackets, when I was supposed to make a left and a right. I even marked them "L" and "R" before cutting.
So... I tossed one of them into the scrap bin and then promptly made another left bracket.
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10-12-2010, 07:57 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Shorewood, WI (Milwaukee area)
Posts: 1,066
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Goof
I did one whole side of a rudder skin, complete with rivet tape and beautiful flush rivets! Guess I should have noticed the rivets seemed a little long. Sure was pleased with myself - for a few minutes! Later managed to stretch the skin trying to fix a misplaced dimple. It now hangs in the hanger with our Pitts.
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Bill Dicus
Shorewood (Milwaukee) Wisconsin
RV-8 N9669D Flying 12/4/14!
Flying Pitts S-2A, Piper Lance
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10-12-2010, 08:22 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Near Scipio, in Southern Indiana
Posts: 1,779
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I was so proud of that rudder skin that I laid in on the carpet and stepped back to admire it. My 90 pound Lab jumped right on the middle of it...
Then there was the time I had my son help me move the HS/elevator assembly. I totally forget I hadn't secured the fiberglass elevator tip he used to lift it. I left that dent on the trailing edge (all six inches of it) as a reminder.
Bob Kelly
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Bob Kelly, Scipio, Indiana
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10-12-2010, 10:22 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Posts: 580
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Inverted Ribs
A few years ago there was a couple of builders who put the ribs on upside down on an RV8 spar. As I remember they didn't discover there mistake till the skins were riveted on. Now this one has bragging rights as one of the biggest errors you can make. I can kind of see how this could happen if you are totally focused finishing the wing and not thinking about how things go together.
Steve Barnes "The Builders Coach"
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10-13-2010, 04:29 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Ohio
Posts: 1,686
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Nutplates
I have left nutplates out several times. So not only am I dumb, I'm not trainable either....
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10-13-2010, 09:08 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: 45G, Brighton, MI
Posts: 1,867
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Also, once had to drill a few rivets out of the horizontal stab to retreive a bucking bar... 
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Miles (VAF# 1238, Paid up as of 2018)
RV-7 TU 904KM (reserved)
Wings Fitted and Finish Kit on site
Construction Log
Picasa: Empennage Album, Wings Album, Fuselage Album
1955 Cessna 170B flying since 1982
'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.' -Unk.
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10-13-2010, 09:40 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: UK
Posts: 368
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Reversed HS Skins!
Miles,
Great one line "lost bucking bar in the HS" story. I have an HS story too.
Having match drilled both skins to the HS spar and ribs, then preped and primed everything, I riveted the skin to the LEFT HS SPAR & RIBS. Then I picked up the other skin. I was completely shocked to see the skin I was holding was marked up as the LEFT SKIN. I'd riveted the RIGHT SKIN upside down to the LEFT HS SPAR & RIBS - it fitted perfectly!
The story ends well as the LEFT SKIN also fitted perfectly upside down on the RIGHT HS SPAR & RIBS. Thankfully the HS skins are almost exactly symetrical and the prepunched holes are just about perfectly positioned.
Steve
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Steve Hutt
West Sussex, UK
RV-7 G-HUTY (not flying yet)
( Tip-UP / TMX-IO-360-M1B / Hartzell 7497-2 / 1x LSE PLASMA III / Dual AF4500's / AF-Pilot AP / 695 )
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