Nomex Maximus
Well Known Member
How much non-RV work have you done since getting your RV kit? Here is a list of what I have done or had to do since I got the RV-7A Quick-Build kit:
Oh, and while I was doing all of this, I adopted another child from China and joined the Civil Air Patrol going to numerous meetings and missions.
Now, I think I might be able to start of the airplane again.
--JCB
- Arrange to pick up the crates from the freight terminal 40 miles away from where I live.
- Uncrate the RV.
- Remodel the garage in Califronia so that I could use it for the construction of my RV. This included drywall completion, painting and building construction tables.
- Obtain a hangar from the local airport, thinking that I would be needing a hangar for final construction expected in 2004.
- Dispose of the torn up crating material by storing it in the empty hangar.
- After a year, really dispose of the crating material from the hangar to the dump.
- Move the RV from the garage to a storage unit while I move to Michigan.
- Arrange storage in Michigan for the RV kit.
- Six months after transferring to the new job, go back to California and load the RV kit out of the storage unit and onto a Ryder track. Drive the kit from California to Michigan. Unload the RV kit into another storage unit.
- Realize that even though the new house has a great big basement suitable for building the RV, the walkout sliding glass door is too narrow to get the fuselage through. Remove the sliding glass door and replace it with a new double wide french door.
- Rewire the basement so that there is lighting and outlets for the tools.
- Build new construction tables.
- Realize that I just won't be comfortable in the basement unless I finish it and have a nice desk and study area for using the computer while reading vansairforce.net. Install drywall, sand and paint a 900 square foot area.
- Build a wheeled support for the fuselage.
- Move the RV kit out of the storage unit and into the basement through the new french doors.
- Finish the wiring and drywalling that I left partly completed a year before because I ran out of energy.
- Build a desk and cabinets for the study area so I would have appropriate furniture for sitting around contemplating the RV kit.
Oh, and while I was doing all of this, I adopted another child from China and joined the Civil Air Patrol going to numerous meetings and missions.
Now, I think I might be able to start of the airplane again.
--JCB