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jsherblon
Well Known Member
While driving through your neighborhood, you scan for open garage doors hoping for a glint of aluminum.
You've told someone, "Build on."
You've driven to work using your portable aviation GPS.
You've exceeded your personal maximum for reserved N-numbers.
You pondered how you could set lean of peak in your truck.
You've told someone, "Build on."
You've driven to work using your portable aviation GPS.
You've exceeded your personal maximum for reserved N-numbers.
You pondered how you could set lean of peak in your truck.
brianwallis
VAF moderator
building
Your kids and the neighbor's kids are proficient with pro-seal...
You debate buying a tail kit instead of paying your taxes...
Your kids know George and Becky Orndorff by face and name without meeting them.
You rake the yard only to see if you dropped any clecos..
You know the guys at aircraft spruce by name... the stockers too.... Hi Tim!
Your wife knows how to use a torque wrench and to unwind it after your done.
Your kids and the neighbor's kids are proficient with pro-seal...
You debate buying a tail kit instead of paying your taxes...
Your kids know George and Becky Orndorff by face and name without meeting them.
You rake the yard only to see if you dropped any clecos..
You know the guys at aircraft spruce by name... the stockers too.... Hi Tim!
Your wife knows how to use a torque wrench and to unwind it after your done.
From an almost daily lurker and RV builder wannabe:
Would love to have these listed by number in a Word document...They're great!
Sounds like a great project for a newbie!!!
Sounds like a great project for a newbie!!!
Yeah, it's going to happen. Just built a house in an airpark. Moving in this week. Lot's of others here have RVs. Mine'll be a 7A....... Thanks for the encouragement.
Oh. Well, this newbie might not have picked up the entire meaning there. If by 'project' you meant compiling all these into a single document, I've already started.
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Already guilty, for tools.
osxuser
Well Known Member
221: You repaired your snow shovel before work this morning by re-attaching the leading edge scraper thing with AN426AD4-4 rivets.
222: you become chronically depressed and generally pissy when you don't have the money for the next sub-kit.
tyconnell
Well Known Member
#153a - you buy the box of 10 blue sharpie fine points, stick 9 in a ziploc bag in the freezer hoping they'll survive and you haven't wasted $6 on them.
claycookiemonster
Well Known Member
You might be an RV builder if...
When you watch Survivor, you're thinking, "Some Pro-Seal would make that hut alot drier!"
Clay "Cookie Monster" Cook
N838CM reserved
When you watch Survivor, you're thinking, "Some Pro-Seal would make that hut alot drier!"
Clay "Cookie Monster" Cook
N838CM reserved
RadioShack
Member
You might be an RV Builder if...
224: You and your family have ever been featured flying an unfinished airplane in your Christmas Card.
224: You and your family have ever been featured flying an unfinished airplane in your Christmas Card.
petercavallo
Well Known Member
You have explained that you have actually made money by building your RV and can prove it........of course no one believes you
PropellerHead
Well Known Member
If there were more models...
- You refer to UPS as "The Big Brown Airplane Truck"
- Your wife refers to the bathroom as the "Schlosser Aviation Library"
- You have so much scrap aluminum in your yard, Alcoa has you on speed dial.
- You yell clear prop when starting the mower.
- You seriously have plans to put a Van's throttle quadrant on your mower.
- You practice "formation flying" on your drive to work to kill time.
- Bug splats on your windshield become gun sights.
- My auto mechanic enjoys and understands my funny "squawk lists".
- You ponder: If cars had comm radios, maybe people wouldn't be so darn rude on the road?
- You wonder if you can have your mail forwarded to your garage (er, um, shop).
- You have asked the accountant if you could declare Van's as a dependant.
And the topper:
- You have to stand at the bathroom sink for ten minutes to give your legs time to reboot
after sitting on the can for so long (reading the preview plans) you can't feel your feet and walk like a zombie.
RE The license plate frame issue: I would buy one if it was for an RV-10. DAN? Any plans to carry frames for other models?
- You refer to UPS as "The Big Brown Airplane Truck"
- Your wife refers to the bathroom as the "Schlosser Aviation Library"
- You have so much scrap aluminum in your yard, Alcoa has you on speed dial.
- You yell clear prop when starting the mower.
- You seriously have plans to put a Van's throttle quadrant on your mower.
- You practice "formation flying" on your drive to work to kill time.
- Bug splats on your windshield become gun sights.
- My auto mechanic enjoys and understands my funny "squawk lists".
- You ponder: If cars had comm radios, maybe people wouldn't be so darn rude on the road?
- You wonder if you can have your mail forwarded to your garage (er, um, shop).
- You have asked the accountant if you could declare Van's as a dependant.
And the topper:
- You have to stand at the bathroom sink for ten minutes to give your legs time to reboot
after sitting on the can for so long (reading the preview plans) you can't feel your feet and walk like a zombie.
RE The license plate frame issue: I would buy one if it was for an RV-10. DAN? Any plans to carry frames for other models?
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Guy Prevost
Well Known Member
#241 Your wife tells you over the phone that you got a package from Bob Nuckolls--and she knows who Bob Nuckolls is.
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#242 You pick up a drill bit from the bench and by feel you can tell if its a #30 or a #40.
Mike Draper
RV-8 N468RV
TMX 0360 CS
Working on the canopy skirt..
Mike Draper
RV-8 N468RV
TMX 0360 CS
Working on the canopy skirt..
rodcritt
Member
And they say it's an attorney thing.
If you are "envious" of the "ready made" baffles
My wife added the above to the list,... If you are "envious" of the "ready made" baffles,... she seems to think it would be a lot less pain if you could just buy'em and put them on,... guess she got tired of swapping back and forth between cowling on and cowling off,.. fit, cut, on,. off,. snips,.. etc..... AHH but then again,.. just more bonding time,.... good to have a spouse as a co-builder,...
My wife added the above to the list,... If you are "envious" of the "ready made" baffles,... she seems to think it would be a lot less pain if you could just buy'em and put them on,... guess she got tired of swapping back and forth between cowling on and cowling off,.. fit, cut, on,. off,. snips,.. etc..... AHH but then again,.. just more bonding time,.... good to have a spouse as a co-builder,...
RBD
Well Known Member
If you mean what I think you mean, this is hilarious!
FresnoR
Well Known Member
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You might be an RV builder if...
1. You?re walking up to your office building from the parking garage and you find your pocket is full of clecos from the building session the night before.
2. Your UPS guy knows your dogs name.
3. You have Ebay set up to send you email when a hot piece of avionics appears for sale.
4. You have ever passed on sex so you could finish the last few rivets in your wing skin.
5. You?ll skip dinner to go see another builders progress in person.
6. You keep your Spruce Catalog in your Laptop case while traveling for your job.
7. You?ve ever drilled into your finger or hand.
8. if you use duck tape for bandages.
9. You deburr bread after slicing.
10. If you tape every cable show about RVs, only to realize later that they were about Recreational Vehicles.
11. You have been told to your face you are crazy (and they truly thought you were) when you tell friends and family that you are building an airplane.
12. You have a 3 car garage and both your cars are parked in the driveway.
13. Your living room furniture consists of a set of wings and tail feathers.
14. Your friends have given up calling to see if you?re avilable to do something.
15. You pause in the jetway to examine the rivets on the outside of the 737 before you board.
16. While using the portable toilets (anywhere) you look at the quality of the Pop rivets holding the thing together.
17. You have Van?s on the speed dial of your phone. (Glenn Brasch does)
18. You?ve washed a pocket load of Clecos with your clothes.
19. You spend time doing stupid **** like this instead of building
20. 8 of the 10 speed dial numbers in your cell phone are RV buddies (me: wife and Mom make up the other two)
21. You have a cat named ?Cleco? (Bob Avery) or a dog named ?RV? (Red Marron).
22. You think of ways to repair or modify things around the house using your newly learned aluminum working techniques and or tools.
23. You name your new puppy ?Torque? right after you pick up your torque wrench to tighten an AN-3 nut. (That would be me.)
24. A plane flying overhead while you?re working on the project causes you to pat the project and say, ?down, girl.?
25. You?ve ever drilled into your wife?s finger or hand.
26. The License Plate on your car is the same as your N number.
27. You wake in the middle of the night and realize you just had a nightmare about your recently and lovinglycreated RV scattered in pieces at the airport after you forgot to tie it down in before a windstorm.
28. While attending the neighborhood block party you are introduce as the guy with the airplane in his garage.
29. Your pool table holds finished airplane parts instead of folded laundry.
30. Most of your wardrobe consists of T-shirts with RVs on them.
31. You have planes on the brains.
32. You have horizontal stabilizers tucked behind your couch.
33. There is a rudder under your bed.
34. You get mad because all your Sharpie?s are missing.
35. You cut up Van?s calendar and put the pictures up all over the place.
36. You sleep with a rivet gun under your pillow. ?Just in case.?
37. You walk around the airport staring at Cessnas, Pipers, Beechcrafts and Mooneys to see if they use AEX wedges on the trailing edges of ailerons, flaps, elevators and rudders.
38. You feel much better about your own project, knowing that Socata uses dozens of pop rivets in the tail of the Trinidad.
39. The only photo in your wallet is of your RV.
40. you keep a mini drill bit gage in your pocket at all times.
41. You have a can of Proseal in the ?fridge!
42. While reading this list you comment that these people are sick! Then you realize you are one of them and share the same illness.
43. If you think you can sneak an airplane past your wife if you bring it in one piece at a time.
44. If your arguing about engine choices on-line while working on your elevator.
45. You have ever riveted something inside of a structure.
46. You look for usable plane stuff in every store (don?t laugh-stainless steel T fittings at Pet?s Mart for $1.49 aquarium department)
47. You?ve had to order stuff from Van? or Spruce more than 3 times in one week.
48. You?ve convinced the UPS guy that he should build an RV.
49. Your airpark neighbors think your plane is ?cute.?
50. The first thing any of your friends ask is ?how?s the plane??
51. Your email address is [email protected]
52. Your bathroom library consists of RVators and Sport Aviation
53. You always carry a fuel cap opener on your keychain
54. if you think your pilot friend is a sicko for building a Glassair.
55. if only 50% of the rivets in your tail kit are originals.
56. if the main concern when buying a house is the size of the garage.
57. if you watch National Lampoon?s Christmas Vacation and when cousin Eddie ays ?Clark, that there is an RV,? you expect to see an airplane in the riveway.
58. Every time you get pissed off in traffic, you dream how you are never going to have this problem when you?re flying your RV.
59. You justify building your plane because it will get far better gas mileage than your Truck.
60. Your hangar neighbors think you sleep with the plane.
61. Your good sweats are the ones covered in proseal.
62. Your reading material consist of contruction plans and the Spruce catalog.
63. You find aluminum shavings in your bed sheets.
64. Your flying buddy is telling you about his new Cessna and you are doing your best to hide that little thought bubble in your mind that is screaming out ?You poor bast&$d...why would you buy such a thing??
65. When an experimental aircraft gets bent, you recognize the personal tragedy of the aircraft?s loss...all those hours of labor and dreams. You are there to help the builder through the mourning period as he deals with the loss of something that he can?t quite express...you recognize that the RV is more than a collection of parts.
66. Your 5-year old daughter knows her way around the shop and you have no issue with letting her ?play? with a block of wood and a drill for clecoe practice.
67. That same 5-year old daughter spreads her arms and forms a human shield between the project and an unruly neighborhood kid as she warns him to stay away from the plane. (I love my little girl...very proud of her at that moment)
68. You have ever used ProSeal to fix pesky household items, or your kid?s bike!
69. You put your hand on your heart and sing the National Anthem at airshows when M. Stewart and the boys fly over in formation.
70. You look at a spam can and immediately consider the 100+ speed mods you could do to it!
You might be an RV builder if...
1. You?re walking up to your office building from the parking garage and you find your pocket is full of clecos from the building session the night before.
2. Your UPS guy knows your dogs name.
3. You have Ebay set up to send you email when a hot piece of avionics appears for sale.
4. You have ever passed on sex so you could finish the last few rivets in your wing skin.
5. You?ll skip dinner to go see another builders progress in person.
6. You keep your Spruce Catalog in your Laptop case while traveling for your job.
7. You?ve ever drilled into your finger or hand.
8. if you use duck tape for bandages.
9. You deburr bread after slicing.
10. If you tape every cable show about RVs, only to realize later that they were about Recreational Vehicles.
11. You have been told to your face you are crazy (and they truly thought you were) when you tell friends and family that you are building an airplane.
12. You have a 3 car garage and both your cars are parked in the driveway.
13. Your living room furniture consists of a set of wings and tail feathers.
14. Your friends have given up calling to see if you?re avilable to do something.
15. You pause in the jetway to examine the rivets on the outside of the 737 before you board.
16. While using the portable toilets (anywhere) you look at the quality of the Pop rivets holding the thing together.
17. You have Van?s on the speed dial of your phone. (Glenn Brasch does)
18. You?ve washed a pocket load of Clecos with your clothes.
19. You spend time doing stupid **** like this instead of building
20. 8 of the 10 speed dial numbers in your cell phone are RV buddies (me: wife and Mom make up the other two)
21. You have a cat named ?Cleco? (Bob Avery) or a dog named ?RV? (Red Marron).
22. You think of ways to repair or modify things around the house using your newly learned aluminum working techniques and or tools.
23. You name your new puppy ?Torque? right after you pick up your torque wrench to tighten an AN-3 nut. (That would be me.)
24. A plane flying overhead while you?re working on the project causes you to pat the project and say, ?down, girl.?
25. You?ve ever drilled into your wife?s finger or hand.
26. The License Plate on your car is the same as your N number.
27. You wake in the middle of the night and realize you just had a nightmare about your recently and lovinglycreated RV scattered in pieces at the airport after you forgot to tie it down in before a windstorm.
28. While attending the neighborhood block party you are introduce as the guy with the airplane in his garage.
29. Your pool table holds finished airplane parts instead of folded laundry.
30. Most of your wardrobe consists of T-shirts with RVs on them.
31. You have planes on the brains.
32. You have horizontal stabilizers tucked behind your couch.
33. There is a rudder under your bed.
34. You get mad because all your Sharpie?s are missing.
35. You cut up Van?s calendar and put the pictures up all over the place.
36. You sleep with a rivet gun under your pillow. ?Just in case.?
37. You walk around the airport staring at Cessnas, Pipers, Beechcrafts and Mooneys to see if they use AEX wedges on the trailing edges of ailerons, flaps, elevators and rudders.
38. You feel much better about your own project, knowing that Socata uses dozens of pop rivets in the tail of the Trinidad.
39. The only photo in your wallet is of your RV.
40. you keep a mini drill bit gage in your pocket at all times.
41. You have a can of Proseal in the ?fridge!
42. While reading this list you comment that these people are sick! Then you realize you are one of them and share the same illness.
43. If you think you can sneak an airplane past your wife if you bring it in one piece at a time.
44. If your arguing about engine choices on-line while working on your elevator.
45. You have ever riveted something inside of a structure.
46. You look for usable plane stuff in every store (don?t laugh-stainless steel T fittings at Pet?s Mart for $1.49 aquarium department)
47. You?ve had to order stuff from Van? or Spruce more than 3 times in one week.
48. You?ve convinced the UPS guy that he should build an RV.
49. Your airpark neighbors think your plane is ?cute.?
50. The first thing any of your friends ask is ?how?s the plane??
51. Your email address is [email protected]
52. Your bathroom library consists of RVators and Sport Aviation
53. You always carry a fuel cap opener on your keychain
54. if you think your pilot friend is a sicko for building a Glassair.
55. if only 50% of the rivets in your tail kit are originals.
56. if the main concern when buying a house is the size of the garage.
57. if you watch National Lampoon?s Christmas Vacation and when cousin Eddie ays ?Clark, that there is an RV,? you expect to see an airplane in the riveway.
58. Every time you get pissed off in traffic, you dream how you are never going to have this problem when you?re flying your RV.
59. You justify building your plane because it will get far better gas mileage than your Truck.
60. Your hangar neighbors think you sleep with the plane.
61. Your good sweats are the ones covered in proseal.
62. Your reading material consist of contruction plans and the Spruce catalog.
63. You find aluminum shavings in your bed sheets.
64. Your flying buddy is telling you about his new Cessna and you are doing your best to hide that little thought bubble in your mind that is screaming out ?You poor bast&$d...why would you buy such a thing??
65. When an experimental aircraft gets bent, you recognize the personal tragedy of the aircraft?s loss...all those hours of labor and dreams. You are there to help the builder through the mourning period as he deals with the loss of something that he can?t quite express...you recognize that the RV is more than a collection of parts.
66. Your 5-year old daughter knows her way around the shop and you have no issue with letting her ?play? with a block of wood and a drill for clecoe practice.
67. That same 5-year old daughter spreads her arms and forms a human shield between the project and an unruly neighborhood kid as she warns him to stay away from the plane. (I love my little girl...very proud of her at that moment)
68. You have ever used ProSeal to fix pesky household items, or your kid?s bike!
69. You put your hand on your heart and sing the National Anthem at airshows when M. Stewart and the boys fly over in formation.
70. You look at a spam can and immediately consider the 100+ speed mods you could do to it!
FresnoR
Well Known Member
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You might be an RV builder if...
71. you call your family members ?buckers?
72. at social and/or family events you are the one staring off into space not taliking to anyone
73. You cut out part of the shipping box from the empennage kit that says ?Caution..High Dollar Aircraft Parts?, and hang it on the wall of the garage...just because it looks and sounds so cool!
74. Your hands and arms are permantly stained with ProSeal clear up to your elbows. (and your just as proud as a peacock about it!)
75. You have ordered ScotchBrite and sand paper by the semi load.
76. When figuring costs in the airplane you realize you spent more on UPS Next Day Air freight than parts, because you had to have it right now.
77. You have offered to show your pilot buddy who flies a Cirrus SR-22 how to Bondo the seams and fill the elevator gaps to make it look alot better.
78. You have enough aluminum scrap from ?not good enough? parts that you can afford to drive 3 hours and take it to a aluminum salvage yard.
79. You ask the Schwans man if he has any of those cool mixing sticks he would cut loose of.
80. You know the stock number of the SOLO paper cups that DON?T have wax on them (for mixing epoxy), and know which Kroger stores have them!
81. If you?ve ever repaired a home appliance with flush rivets, dimple dies, rivet squeezer, etc, etc....
82. After what seems like hours of bending and grunting under the panel, you finally get the xacto knife lined up to trim the cable and you notice that your finger that is supporting the cable will get cut too..... Oh well, skin will heal - just dont get blood on the carpet !
83. Your best friend runs an ad in the Sunday paper for a NEW best friend
84. You have purchased more airplane project supplies than home project supplies at Home Depot, and wonder why the the name isn?t ?Home Depot Aircraft Supply?.
85. You keep coming up with ways to convince your wife that airplane parts are ?investments?, not expenses.
86. Your dog doesn?t get scared any more when your oil-less compressor kicks in.
87. When you fly commercial, you calculate how much sooner you would have gotten there if your RV was done.
88. You?ve written your builder number instead of your zip code on your return address.
89. You?ve used leftover epoxy to patch holes around the house.
90. You have Proseal on your wife?s glassware, silverware, and the refrigerator door handle.
91. You bought your house becasue of the size of the workshop.
92. You can refer to your wife in public as your ?bucking partner? and she doesn?t get upset anymore. Or you ask if she wants to ?buck? and she says yes!!
93. You own an rvator domain.
94. Your 2 year old daughter asks Mommy who?s the man that lives out in the garage, and Mommy replies ?That?s your Daddy?!
95. If you start talking just like George and call all of your helpers Becky, you just might be an RV builder.
96. When packing for an airline trip you try and stuff the RV plans in your flight bag on top of your company manuals so you can ?study
97. This is your website: http://www.rv7-a.com/
98. This is your automobile plate: http://www.rv7-a.com/126_2640.jpg
99. The fedex guy has your phone number and you have his, and both
of you know the ?secret? place in the backyard to hide expensive
incoming parts. And he calls you when he delivers wanting to know
what it is.
100. The Fedex guy stops by every day to look at the plane and have a smoke, regardless if has any packages to deliver
101. Even though you have completed your airplane, there is a new set
of completed wings and an empennage in your garage because all
your friends are builders and you have the biggest garage.
102. Your old friends by now have forgotten your phone number, and you
couldn?t care less, in fact, you are happier.
103. Your honey-do list is a mile long, the yard looks like ****, and the cars haven?t been cleaned in months. Why? Because you have better things to do... You have an airplane to build!
104. Your entire family has now removed the word ?garage? from their vocabulary, and replaced it with ?shop?.
105. You have been building your RV for so long that when people ask what you do for a living, you reply with, ?I build an airplane.?
106. You tell people your RV will be done and flying in June, but you don?t specify a year...
107. You park your brand new car in the driveway in the winter
108. You don?t bother to sweep up the path of aluminum ?sprinkles? in the living room anymore.
109. You make copies of the three-view drawings for your kids to color.
110. When you return from OSH and your friends ask what you thought of the GlobalFlyer and SpaceShipOne, you say ?Huh??
111. You?ve been to his website so often, you feel like you know Dan and Jen personally.
112. Your bumper sticker reads: ?If my plane were finished, I?d be there by now!?
113. If your clecos and your food now live in the same cabinet...you might be an RV builder.
114. You have numerous pictures of your RV-4 in your wallet......none of the kids..guilty !!
115. You change your password at work each month based on the N-number of the plane on Van?s calendar.
116. Your front license plate bracket says, ?I?d rather be building my RV-7.?
117. You?ve repaired your lawn mower and garden tiller with rivets instead of screws and nuts.
118. The lower right quadrant of your desktop at both work and home is made up entirely of links to RV-related sites.
119. You hand out little baggies of aluminum shavings to your friends and co-workers, just to prove you?re building an airplane.
120. You have a photo album that consists of 50 pictures of tailwheels and another 75 of gear leg intersection fairings !!
121. Some guy you meet at a cocktail party suggests you invest in precious metals, so you proudly tell him you have $15,000 worth of aluminum in your garage!
122. You have a set of wings in your guest bedroom and you advertise it to guests as ?an extra large novelty mirror.?
123. An RV flies in to your airport, you?re looking at it way too closely and.........the owner walks up and says..........?so how long have you been working on yours??
124. you always find a way to work something about the RV?s into every conversation.
125. your spouse actually seems to have learned something about aircraft construction and operation plus the endless tailwheel/nosewheel and slider/tilt-up canopy arguments after years of listening to your babbling.
126. your wife asks why there are tiny scratchy ?snow like? things in the bed sheets (canopy trimmings, of course)
127. your fingers are paint or primer stained and the same wife wants to know when they?ll return to normal
128. You actually stop in the tool section at TARGET when shopping with your wife. ...in case, by some odd freak of nature, they have some tools that Cleveland, Spruce and Avery don?t have.
129. the smell of primer works better than Viagra.
130. you?ve thought about opening up a night club called ?The Bucking Bar.?
131. When your wife says ?Not tonight, dear, I have a headache,? you look at it as an opportunity to get some work done in the shop.
132. You bring big floppy sheets of aluminum to the family room to dimple while you?re watching the Superbowl with your family, and nobody thinks its unusual
133. You take a day off from work, but call in to a telecon from the shop, and eventually someone asks ?What was that?? when they hear drilling in the background.
134. You sit through a long, boring, useless meeting at work and daydream of all the great progress you could be making on your airplane if you had called in from home.
135. On business trips, you miss your wife, your kids, and your project.
136. When your wife insists on showing you dozes of paint chips for the living room, you retaliate by showing her photos of paint schemes for the airplane.
You might be an RV builder if...
71. you call your family members ?buckers?
72. at social and/or family events you are the one staring off into space not taliking to anyone
73. You cut out part of the shipping box from the empennage kit that says ?Caution..High Dollar Aircraft Parts?, and hang it on the wall of the garage...just because it looks and sounds so cool!
74. Your hands and arms are permantly stained with ProSeal clear up to your elbows. (and your just as proud as a peacock about it!)
75. You have ordered ScotchBrite and sand paper by the semi load.
76. When figuring costs in the airplane you realize you spent more on UPS Next Day Air freight than parts, because you had to have it right now.
77. You have offered to show your pilot buddy who flies a Cirrus SR-22 how to Bondo the seams and fill the elevator gaps to make it look alot better.
78. You have enough aluminum scrap from ?not good enough? parts that you can afford to drive 3 hours and take it to a aluminum salvage yard.
79. You ask the Schwans man if he has any of those cool mixing sticks he would cut loose of.
80. You know the stock number of the SOLO paper cups that DON?T have wax on them (for mixing epoxy), and know which Kroger stores have them!
81. If you?ve ever repaired a home appliance with flush rivets, dimple dies, rivet squeezer, etc, etc....
82. After what seems like hours of bending and grunting under the panel, you finally get the xacto knife lined up to trim the cable and you notice that your finger that is supporting the cable will get cut too..... Oh well, skin will heal - just dont get blood on the carpet !
83. Your best friend runs an ad in the Sunday paper for a NEW best friend
84. You have purchased more airplane project supplies than home project supplies at Home Depot, and wonder why the the name isn?t ?Home Depot Aircraft Supply?.
85. You keep coming up with ways to convince your wife that airplane parts are ?investments?, not expenses.
86. Your dog doesn?t get scared any more when your oil-less compressor kicks in.
87. When you fly commercial, you calculate how much sooner you would have gotten there if your RV was done.
88. You?ve written your builder number instead of your zip code on your return address.
89. You?ve used leftover epoxy to patch holes around the house.
90. You have Proseal on your wife?s glassware, silverware, and the refrigerator door handle.
91. You bought your house becasue of the size of the workshop.
92. You can refer to your wife in public as your ?bucking partner? and she doesn?t get upset anymore. Or you ask if she wants to ?buck? and she says yes!!
93. You own an rvator domain.
94. Your 2 year old daughter asks Mommy who?s the man that lives out in the garage, and Mommy replies ?That?s your Daddy?!
95. If you start talking just like George and call all of your helpers Becky, you just might be an RV builder.
96. When packing for an airline trip you try and stuff the RV plans in your flight bag on top of your company manuals so you can ?study
97. This is your website: http://www.rv7-a.com/
98. This is your automobile plate: http://www.rv7-a.com/126_2640.jpg
99. The fedex guy has your phone number and you have his, and both
of you know the ?secret? place in the backyard to hide expensive
incoming parts. And he calls you when he delivers wanting to know
what it is.
100. The Fedex guy stops by every day to look at the plane and have a smoke, regardless if has any packages to deliver
101. Even though you have completed your airplane, there is a new set
of completed wings and an empennage in your garage because all
your friends are builders and you have the biggest garage.
102. Your old friends by now have forgotten your phone number, and you
couldn?t care less, in fact, you are happier.
103. Your honey-do list is a mile long, the yard looks like ****, and the cars haven?t been cleaned in months. Why? Because you have better things to do... You have an airplane to build!
104. Your entire family has now removed the word ?garage? from their vocabulary, and replaced it with ?shop?.
105. You have been building your RV for so long that when people ask what you do for a living, you reply with, ?I build an airplane.?
106. You tell people your RV will be done and flying in June, but you don?t specify a year...
107. You park your brand new car in the driveway in the winter
108. You don?t bother to sweep up the path of aluminum ?sprinkles? in the living room anymore.
109. You make copies of the three-view drawings for your kids to color.
110. When you return from OSH and your friends ask what you thought of the GlobalFlyer and SpaceShipOne, you say ?Huh??
111. You?ve been to his website so often, you feel like you know Dan and Jen personally.
112. Your bumper sticker reads: ?If my plane were finished, I?d be there by now!?
113. If your clecos and your food now live in the same cabinet...you might be an RV builder.
114. You have numerous pictures of your RV-4 in your wallet......none of the kids..guilty !!
115. You change your password at work each month based on the N-number of the plane on Van?s calendar.
116. Your front license plate bracket says, ?I?d rather be building my RV-7.?
117. You?ve repaired your lawn mower and garden tiller with rivets instead of screws and nuts.
118. The lower right quadrant of your desktop at both work and home is made up entirely of links to RV-related sites.
119. You hand out little baggies of aluminum shavings to your friends and co-workers, just to prove you?re building an airplane.
120. You have a photo album that consists of 50 pictures of tailwheels and another 75 of gear leg intersection fairings !!
121. Some guy you meet at a cocktail party suggests you invest in precious metals, so you proudly tell him you have $15,000 worth of aluminum in your garage!
122. You have a set of wings in your guest bedroom and you advertise it to guests as ?an extra large novelty mirror.?
123. An RV flies in to your airport, you?re looking at it way too closely and.........the owner walks up and says..........?so how long have you been working on yours??
124. you always find a way to work something about the RV?s into every conversation.
125. your spouse actually seems to have learned something about aircraft construction and operation plus the endless tailwheel/nosewheel and slider/tilt-up canopy arguments after years of listening to your babbling.
126. your wife asks why there are tiny scratchy ?snow like? things in the bed sheets (canopy trimmings, of course)
127. your fingers are paint or primer stained and the same wife wants to know when they?ll return to normal
128. You actually stop in the tool section at TARGET when shopping with your wife. ...in case, by some odd freak of nature, they have some tools that Cleveland, Spruce and Avery don?t have.
129. the smell of primer works better than Viagra.
130. you?ve thought about opening up a night club called ?The Bucking Bar.?
131. When your wife says ?Not tonight, dear, I have a headache,? you look at it as an opportunity to get some work done in the shop.
132. You bring big floppy sheets of aluminum to the family room to dimple while you?re watching the Superbowl with your family, and nobody thinks its unusual
133. You take a day off from work, but call in to a telecon from the shop, and eventually someone asks ?What was that?? when they hear drilling in the background.
134. You sit through a long, boring, useless meeting at work and daydream of all the great progress you could be making on your airplane if you had called in from home.
135. On business trips, you miss your wife, your kids, and your project.
136. When your wife insists on showing you dozes of paint chips for the living room, you retaliate by showing her photos of paint schemes for the airplane.
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137. Your life is full of trade-offs like ?Hmmm...wood floors for the house, or a fuel-injected engine?? or ?New dining room furniture, or a multi-function display??
138. While sitting in lecture at the Naval War College, you are reading ?21 Years of RVator? instead of 2400 years of Sun Tzu! (Hope there are no instructors on this board!)
139. when you?re always reluctant to hit the ?Submit Order? button on the Spruce order page because you just know that when you hit that button, you will remember something else you needed to order.
140. during the life of your project you and your helpers have recycled enough aluminum beer cans to build a fleet of airplane.
141. If you have epoxy on your computer mouse
142. In order for you to buy your engine, you had to buy your wife a dining room set too!
143. you?ve had a grand total of TWO rides in RVs and still wind up proselytizing other pilots that the RV is the best kit plane made.
144. you join the EAA and they make you an Officer
145. You and your family refer to the shed as the ?aircraft manufacturing complex?
146. You have sold another plane or a car to pay for bits for your RV (guilty of both).
147. You had to first build a shed.. sorry, aircraft manufacturing complex specifically to build your RV in.
148. You have ever looked at your hands during a Monday morning staff meeting to see that you?re still wearing a duct-tape band aid from the night before on your finger.
149. You have ever used duct tape band aids becasue you?ve already used up all the real band aids in the shop!
150. If you think nothing of it when a friend is willing to loan you his six identical bathroom scales....
151. You built your third RV ?Borrowed Horse? in 6 months and it was no big deal.
152. you consider black buggers on Monday the sign of a productive weekend!
153. when the ?airport administrator? (wife) asked for opinions on what color to paint the ?guys? bathroom in the ?main terminal building? (the house), you unflinchingly replied: ?what about big sheets of riveted aluminum??
154. you live in the sticks & you order a (muuuch) bigger standby generator for your house just to be sure there?s ample power in the shop for your 10hp industrial compressor
155. you went a tad overboard and now your shop is detached, heated, air conditioned, carpeted, phone, Bose stereo AND over 100 feet away from your house on it?s very own driveway....no water or fridge (yet...)
156. you somehow ?forgot? to mention you spent $400 to run an enormous electrical cable out to the shop for the 10hp industrial compressor she didn?t know you bought, either
157. she thinks you should get the fridge
158. You are ?40-something?, went back to school on the company dime to earn your MBA while also building a -9, and for one of your thesis papers, you write about some guy named ?Van? who started a company producing experimental aircraft kits! Oh, and after
159. the blinds in your new house are partially supported by custom designed, aircraft-grade aluminum brackets.
160. you teach MBA classes and use RV building as examples to illustrate production/operations management concepts.
161. when people that knew you lived where the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed ask ?how?s the plane? before anything else.
162. You spend an hour making up a story before you call Van?s order line because one of these days Ken might pick up the phone and ask why you need a replacement, and you don?t want to explain to him that you put a little scratch in it, and yes you?ve polished it out but somewhere in the back of you?re mind you just know the metal ?remembers?...
163. You have a Modine Hot Dawg heater installed in your garage
164. When the contractor came by to install the garage heater he asked to borrow your tools
165. MacGuyver reruns don?t seem nearly as believable anymore
166. You have no problem blowing $500 on tools you know you?ll never use but you agonize over buying a box of Sharpies because the size you want only comes in assorted colors and that?s a waste of money since, as we all know, the only acceptable color is blue.
167. When a fellow RV-10 builder is deployed to Iraq you worry more about how he?ll keep building than the fact he was sent to Iraq!
168. When your halfway through your fuselage and a new builder posts a VS question and you blurt out ?Newbie? only to find out you asked that same question 2 years ago.
169. When you think you got the jump on your friend & building partner by getting the first Nevada RV-10 license plate only to find out he got the ?RV-10A? plate.
170. Outside with the neighbor when he says,? Hey look at the neat RV!? and you look ...up.
171. If your idea of a good time is leafing through the Spruce catalog while ?watching? a TV show with your wife.
172. If you install an air conditioner in your garage (hey I live in AZ!)
173. If your cats are named Van and RV
174. You add a new color to your vocabulary, ?vinyl blue? and it becomes your favorite. (does anyone know where I can get that color for my exterior?)
175. You buy a new house just so you have a place to build.
176. Your broker utters the letters ?RV? with venom.
177. if you look into the cockpit of the DC9 you?re boarding and ask the crew where their EFIS is and they respond by asking you what you fly.
178. if you admit to yourself you miss building after your RV is flying
179. if your wife asks you ?What is a Repeat Offender??
180. if you have to tell your wife that ?That little thing is the engine?
181. if strangers park their cars in your driveway and ask if you?re building a boat
182. if your son, who has among other things, helped buck rivets, writes a paper about helping his father build an airplane in the garage and presents it to his high school class.
183. if your next door neighbor pays a personal visit to tell you they are moving, acknowledges that you?ve been really busy the last couple of years and kindly asks that you repair your wood fence so their place looks more salable.
184. if you still park your vehicle outside the garage one year after your first flight because ?the shop? is still ?the shop?.
185. if you catch yourself using the word ?spamcan? eventhough you learned to fly in a Cessna or Piper.
186. if you find yourself visiting other RV builders and it takes you back to the time when you were working on that specific item.
187. if someone asks you if you would ever do it again and you tell yourself, ?You Bettcha I would?!
188. You convince your wife that she would like an extra wide set of french doors at the top of the stairs - it was a tight fit but the fuselage came out.
189. Every piece of steel you own has a shiny polished spot on one corner.
190. The new house you just purchased specified a basement big enough to put an assembled RV in it and a large door in the rear wall to get it out.
191. if you go to a romantic movie with Leonardo di Caprio about Howard Hughes and your GIRLFRIEND asks for two tickets for the RV-ator without realizing she said that!
192. Your key breaks, and rather than have a new one cut, you safety wire it...
193. Your wife asks you if you are ever going to do anything around the house again.. ever. And you reply that ?ever is a long time?.
194. Your Van?s and Spruce catalogs rest on the back of your toilet.
195. You have ever taken a picture of a guy taking a picture of your airplane.
196. Your hate fiber-glass!
197. After reading the post about drilling your finger, you go to the shop and promptly drill your finger...Makes typing difficult.
198. If you?ve ever moved to a new house and had your shop set up and working a full 6 months before having a couch, a dining table or a non-futon bed!
199. You have started to use the ? 5 years from whenever you ask ? reply to colleagues asking about progress.........
200. You know that Primer Wars doesn?t refer to a new TV show, film or book........
138. While sitting in lecture at the Naval War College, you are reading ?21 Years of RVator? instead of 2400 years of Sun Tzu! (Hope there are no instructors on this board!)
139. when you?re always reluctant to hit the ?Submit Order? button on the Spruce order page because you just know that when you hit that button, you will remember something else you needed to order.
140. during the life of your project you and your helpers have recycled enough aluminum beer cans to build a fleet of airplane.
141. If you have epoxy on your computer mouse
142. In order for you to buy your engine, you had to buy your wife a dining room set too!
143. you?ve had a grand total of TWO rides in RVs and still wind up proselytizing other pilots that the RV is the best kit plane made.
144. you join the EAA and they make you an Officer
145. You and your family refer to the shed as the ?aircraft manufacturing complex?
146. You have sold another plane or a car to pay for bits for your RV (guilty of both).
147. You had to first build a shed.. sorry, aircraft manufacturing complex specifically to build your RV in.
148. You have ever looked at your hands during a Monday morning staff meeting to see that you?re still wearing a duct-tape band aid from the night before on your finger.
149. You have ever used duct tape band aids becasue you?ve already used up all the real band aids in the shop!
150. If you think nothing of it when a friend is willing to loan you his six identical bathroom scales....
151. You built your third RV ?Borrowed Horse? in 6 months and it was no big deal.
152. you consider black buggers on Monday the sign of a productive weekend!
153. when the ?airport administrator? (wife) asked for opinions on what color to paint the ?guys? bathroom in the ?main terminal building? (the house), you unflinchingly replied: ?what about big sheets of riveted aluminum??
154. you live in the sticks & you order a (muuuch) bigger standby generator for your house just to be sure there?s ample power in the shop for your 10hp industrial compressor
155. you went a tad overboard and now your shop is detached, heated, air conditioned, carpeted, phone, Bose stereo AND over 100 feet away from your house on it?s very own driveway....no water or fridge (yet...)
156. you somehow ?forgot? to mention you spent $400 to run an enormous electrical cable out to the shop for the 10hp industrial compressor she didn?t know you bought, either
157. she thinks you should get the fridge
158. You are ?40-something?, went back to school on the company dime to earn your MBA while also building a -9, and for one of your thesis papers, you write about some guy named ?Van? who started a company producing experimental aircraft kits! Oh, and after
159. the blinds in your new house are partially supported by custom designed, aircraft-grade aluminum brackets.
160. you teach MBA classes and use RV building as examples to illustrate production/operations management concepts.
161. when people that knew you lived where the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed ask ?how?s the plane? before anything else.
162. You spend an hour making up a story before you call Van?s order line because one of these days Ken might pick up the phone and ask why you need a replacement, and you don?t want to explain to him that you put a little scratch in it, and yes you?ve polished it out but somewhere in the back of you?re mind you just know the metal ?remembers?...
163. You have a Modine Hot Dawg heater installed in your garage
164. When the contractor came by to install the garage heater he asked to borrow your tools
165. MacGuyver reruns don?t seem nearly as believable anymore
166. You have no problem blowing $500 on tools you know you?ll never use but you agonize over buying a box of Sharpies because the size you want only comes in assorted colors and that?s a waste of money since, as we all know, the only acceptable color is blue.
167. When a fellow RV-10 builder is deployed to Iraq you worry more about how he?ll keep building than the fact he was sent to Iraq!
168. When your halfway through your fuselage and a new builder posts a VS question and you blurt out ?Newbie? only to find out you asked that same question 2 years ago.
169. When you think you got the jump on your friend & building partner by getting the first Nevada RV-10 license plate only to find out he got the ?RV-10A? plate.
170. Outside with the neighbor when he says,? Hey look at the neat RV!? and you look ...up.
171. If your idea of a good time is leafing through the Spruce catalog while ?watching? a TV show with your wife.
172. If you install an air conditioner in your garage (hey I live in AZ!)
173. If your cats are named Van and RV
174. You add a new color to your vocabulary, ?vinyl blue? and it becomes your favorite. (does anyone know where I can get that color for my exterior?)
175. You buy a new house just so you have a place to build.
176. Your broker utters the letters ?RV? with venom.
177. if you look into the cockpit of the DC9 you?re boarding and ask the crew where their EFIS is and they respond by asking you what you fly.
178. if you admit to yourself you miss building after your RV is flying
179. if your wife asks you ?What is a Repeat Offender??
180. if you have to tell your wife that ?That little thing is the engine?
181. if strangers park their cars in your driveway and ask if you?re building a boat
182. if your son, who has among other things, helped buck rivets, writes a paper about helping his father build an airplane in the garage and presents it to his high school class.
183. if your next door neighbor pays a personal visit to tell you they are moving, acknowledges that you?ve been really busy the last couple of years and kindly asks that you repair your wood fence so their place looks more salable.
184. if you still park your vehicle outside the garage one year after your first flight because ?the shop? is still ?the shop?.
185. if you catch yourself using the word ?spamcan? eventhough you learned to fly in a Cessna or Piper.
186. if you find yourself visiting other RV builders and it takes you back to the time when you were working on that specific item.
187. if someone asks you if you would ever do it again and you tell yourself, ?You Bettcha I would?!
188. You convince your wife that she would like an extra wide set of french doors at the top of the stairs - it was a tight fit but the fuselage came out.
189. Every piece of steel you own has a shiny polished spot on one corner.
190. The new house you just purchased specified a basement big enough to put an assembled RV in it and a large door in the rear wall to get it out.
191. if you go to a romantic movie with Leonardo di Caprio about Howard Hughes and your GIRLFRIEND asks for two tickets for the RV-ator without realizing she said that!
192. Your key breaks, and rather than have a new one cut, you safety wire it...
193. Your wife asks you if you are ever going to do anything around the house again.. ever. And you reply that ?ever is a long time?.
194. Your Van?s and Spruce catalogs rest on the back of your toilet.
195. You have ever taken a picture of a guy taking a picture of your airplane.
196. Your hate fiber-glass!
197. After reading the post about drilling your finger, you go to the shop and promptly drill your finger...Makes typing difficult.
198. If you?ve ever moved to a new house and had your shop set up and working a full 6 months before having a couch, a dining table or a non-futon bed!
199. You have started to use the ? 5 years from whenever you ask ? reply to colleagues asking about progress.........
200. You know that Primer Wars doesn?t refer to a new TV show, film or book........
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201. You don?t dare lower your bike from the roof of the Garage ceiling on your own as it?s hanging right ABOVE your QB wings and fuselage...... and you are starting to realise that its in a VERY BAD place...sorry got to go right NOW....
202. Your friends ask: So......how much longer till you finish? Is your wife going to ride in that thing with you? Are you building a model or a real airplane that you will be able to ride in? Isn?t that what John Denver was flying?
203. You?ve been known to say, ?Hey honey, guess what you just bought me for my birthday in 2010?? (because your next 3 birthdays are already accounted for!)
204. If your girlfriend washes your clothe along with rivets, clecos and a blue Sharpie all in one load. I figure she would check my pockets for phone numbers anyways!
205. if you walk around with small cuts all over you fingers and hands
206. if you spend as mush time building as you do on these forums
207. Your first post on VAF is to this thread.
208. You?ve already started telling people about your plans to build an RV before ordering anything.
209. You?re still telling your wife that you aren?t sure whether or not you want to build an airplane to get her used to the idea.
210. When you get bored studying for your checkride (in a couple weeks), you create a powerpoint slide with paint scheme inspiration photos.
211. The only airplanes in your flight simulator are RV?s.
212. You are introduced to the ?Appropriate Use? internet policy at work for downloading every RV video you can find...
213. You buy a house because it has a walk out basement that is big enough for your project.
214. Your stock answer is ?with a chain saw to the wall? when people ask how your getting your plane out of the basement!
215. Alternate answer.... ?its easy, fly up the step and take a left at the top?
216. you ask the 777 captain how his short field landing compares to your RV!
217. you have regret for rivets you drill out, cut too short or drop and can?t find because they will never be part of a flying airplane.
218. You hold off going to the bathroom until it is ?critical? because you have ONLY 20 more holes to drill, deburr, dimple, and rivet.
219. You spend all your time on the plane... you know this how... a bird has established a nest in your bike shoes on the other side of the garage!
220. People mistake your house for an aluminum scrap yard due to that big pile of scrap airplane parts in your back yard.
221. When you get off of an airline and walk by the pilot, you dig out a copy of Kit Airplanes with an RV on the cover and say ?Wouldn?t you rather be flying this?!?
222. You can rattle off the alleged issues with an O-320-H2AD.
223. You keep a copy of the preview plans next to your easy chair in front of the TV.
224. You think of prop spinners when being intimate with the wife.
225. You start practicing the RV Grin before you pop that first rivet.
226. When you write your weekly capsule reports at work, you include an update on your airplane.
227. Your right arm (left arm in you are a lefty) is bigger than your left from all the riveting and squeezing you have done.
228. Your wife Googles you and finds three hundred posts you have made on various RV message boards.
229. When your parents ask for your recommendation to where to move to in their retirement, you recommend a place near a nice airport about 500 miles away, as that will make a nice trip in your airplane.
230. You actually know the difference between an AN426AD3-4 and an AN470AD3-4.
231. You are a veteran of the Primer Wars.
232. you install a relief tube and funnel under your work bench so you don?t have to go into the house
233. You look at the miles of RV?s at Oshkosh and think ?Man, that?s alot of nutplates.?
234. You have a child in order to reach small spaces with bucking bar.
222. you have one of those elastic pressure bands around both of your elbows because of squeezing rivets during one of those rare ?riveting marathons?.
223. you decide to rebuild the aluminum ?poop-scooper?....and use flush rivets to speed up your flight around the yard...
224. When you have learned...over time... to leave ugly but well-set rivets alone!!
225. When you spend Saturday mornings reviewing the purchase list for the airplane project....one more time.
226. When an EFIS takes precedent over a hot tub.
235. While driving through your neighborhood, you scan for open garage doors hoping for a glint of aluminum.
236. You?ve told someone, ?Build on.?
237. You?ve driven to work using your portable aviation GPS.
238. You?ve exceeded your personal maximum for reserved N-numbers.
239. You pondered how you could set lean of peak in your truck.
240. You get lost on the way to your mailbox, but you can drive to Aircraft Spruce blindfolded while sleeping.
241. Your kids and the neighbor?s kids are proficient with pro-seal...
242. You debate buying a tail kit instead of paying your taxes...
243. Your kids know George and Becky Orndorff by face and name without meeting them.
244. You rake the yard only to see if you dropped any clecos..
245. You know the guys at aircraft spruce by name... the stockers too.... Hi Tim!
246. Your wife knows how to use a torque wrench and to unwind it after your done.
247. you see a thread entitled ?crotch strap mod for hookers?, you know exactly what it is referring to, and the ?blue? interpretation does not occur to you until someone calls it to your attention
248. Your kids start discussing the rivets on airplanes on static display at aero shows.
249. you drive by a 5,000 square foot house and tell your wife ?Man, those people must be building a huge airplane!?
250. You?ve memorized you credit card numbers because you bought so much airplane stuff with them.
251. You repaired your snow shovel before work this morning by re-attaching the leading edge scraper thing with AN426AD4-4 rivets
252. you become chronically depressed and generally pissy when you don?t have the money for the next sub-kit
253. you buy the box of 10 blue sharpie fine points, stick 9 in a ziploc bag in the freezer hoping they?ll survive and you haven?t wasted $6 on them.
254. When you watch Survivor, you?re thinking, ?Some Pro-Seal would make that hut alot drier!?
255. You and your family have ever been featured flying an unfinished airplane in your Christmas Card.
256. You discover that you can repair cracked fiberglass tubs with West Systems epoxy.
257. You?ve given up on the $100 burger. Flying with coworkers means flying upside down or not at all.
258. You have explained that you have actually made money by building your RV and can prove it........of course no one believes you
259. If you ever used the bathtub to find a leak in your tanks.
260. If you ever bounced the remote signal for the TV off the wings in your living room. (For some reason, it worked better than line-of-sight).
261. You refer to UPS as ?The Big Brown Airplane Truck?
262. Your wife refers to the bathroom as the ?Schlosser Aviation Library?
263. You have so much scrap aluminum in your yard, Alcoa has you on speed dial.
264. You yell clear prop when starting the mower.
265. You seriously have plans to put a Van?s throttle quadrant on your mower.
266. You practice ?formation flying? on your drive to work to kill time.
267. Bug splats on your windshield become gun sights.
268. My auto mechanic enjoys and understands my funny ?squawk lists?.
269. You ponder: If cars had comm radios, maybe people wouldn?t be so darn rude on the road?
270. You wonder if you can have your mail forwarded to your garage (er, um, shop).
202. Your friends ask: So......how much longer till you finish? Is your wife going to ride in that thing with you? Are you building a model or a real airplane that you will be able to ride in? Isn?t that what John Denver was flying?
203. You?ve been known to say, ?Hey honey, guess what you just bought me for my birthday in 2010?? (because your next 3 birthdays are already accounted for!)
204. If your girlfriend washes your clothe along with rivets, clecos and a blue Sharpie all in one load. I figure she would check my pockets for phone numbers anyways!
205. if you walk around with small cuts all over you fingers and hands
206. if you spend as mush time building as you do on these forums
207. Your first post on VAF is to this thread.
208. You?ve already started telling people about your plans to build an RV before ordering anything.
209. You?re still telling your wife that you aren?t sure whether or not you want to build an airplane to get her used to the idea.
210. When you get bored studying for your checkride (in a couple weeks), you create a powerpoint slide with paint scheme inspiration photos.
211. The only airplanes in your flight simulator are RV?s.
212. You are introduced to the ?Appropriate Use? internet policy at work for downloading every RV video you can find...
213. You buy a house because it has a walk out basement that is big enough for your project.
214. Your stock answer is ?with a chain saw to the wall? when people ask how your getting your plane out of the basement!
215. Alternate answer.... ?its easy, fly up the step and take a left at the top?
216. you ask the 777 captain how his short field landing compares to your RV!
217. you have regret for rivets you drill out, cut too short or drop and can?t find because they will never be part of a flying airplane.
218. You hold off going to the bathroom until it is ?critical? because you have ONLY 20 more holes to drill, deburr, dimple, and rivet.
219. You spend all your time on the plane... you know this how... a bird has established a nest in your bike shoes on the other side of the garage!
220. People mistake your house for an aluminum scrap yard due to that big pile of scrap airplane parts in your back yard.
221. When you get off of an airline and walk by the pilot, you dig out a copy of Kit Airplanes with an RV on the cover and say ?Wouldn?t you rather be flying this?!?
222. You can rattle off the alleged issues with an O-320-H2AD.
223. You keep a copy of the preview plans next to your easy chair in front of the TV.
224. You think of prop spinners when being intimate with the wife.
225. You start practicing the RV Grin before you pop that first rivet.
226. When you write your weekly capsule reports at work, you include an update on your airplane.
227. Your right arm (left arm in you are a lefty) is bigger than your left from all the riveting and squeezing you have done.
228. Your wife Googles you and finds three hundred posts you have made on various RV message boards.
229. When your parents ask for your recommendation to where to move to in their retirement, you recommend a place near a nice airport about 500 miles away, as that will make a nice trip in your airplane.
230. You actually know the difference between an AN426AD3-4 and an AN470AD3-4.
231. You are a veteran of the Primer Wars.
232. you install a relief tube and funnel under your work bench so you don?t have to go into the house
233. You look at the miles of RV?s at Oshkosh and think ?Man, that?s alot of nutplates.?
234. You have a child in order to reach small spaces with bucking bar.
222. you have one of those elastic pressure bands around both of your elbows because of squeezing rivets during one of those rare ?riveting marathons?.
223. you decide to rebuild the aluminum ?poop-scooper?....and use flush rivets to speed up your flight around the yard...
224. When you have learned...over time... to leave ugly but well-set rivets alone!!
225. When you spend Saturday mornings reviewing the purchase list for the airplane project....one more time.
226. When an EFIS takes precedent over a hot tub.
235. While driving through your neighborhood, you scan for open garage doors hoping for a glint of aluminum.
236. You?ve told someone, ?Build on.?
237. You?ve driven to work using your portable aviation GPS.
238. You?ve exceeded your personal maximum for reserved N-numbers.
239. You pondered how you could set lean of peak in your truck.
240. You get lost on the way to your mailbox, but you can drive to Aircraft Spruce blindfolded while sleeping.
241. Your kids and the neighbor?s kids are proficient with pro-seal...
242. You debate buying a tail kit instead of paying your taxes...
243. Your kids know George and Becky Orndorff by face and name without meeting them.
244. You rake the yard only to see if you dropped any clecos..
245. You know the guys at aircraft spruce by name... the stockers too.... Hi Tim!
246. Your wife knows how to use a torque wrench and to unwind it after your done.
247. you see a thread entitled ?crotch strap mod for hookers?, you know exactly what it is referring to, and the ?blue? interpretation does not occur to you until someone calls it to your attention
248. Your kids start discussing the rivets on airplanes on static display at aero shows.
249. you drive by a 5,000 square foot house and tell your wife ?Man, those people must be building a huge airplane!?
250. You?ve memorized you credit card numbers because you bought so much airplane stuff with them.
251. You repaired your snow shovel before work this morning by re-attaching the leading edge scraper thing with AN426AD4-4 rivets
252. you become chronically depressed and generally pissy when you don?t have the money for the next sub-kit
253. you buy the box of 10 blue sharpie fine points, stick 9 in a ziploc bag in the freezer hoping they?ll survive and you haven?t wasted $6 on them.
254. When you watch Survivor, you?re thinking, ?Some Pro-Seal would make that hut alot drier!?
255. You and your family have ever been featured flying an unfinished airplane in your Christmas Card.
256. You discover that you can repair cracked fiberglass tubs with West Systems epoxy.
257. You?ve given up on the $100 burger. Flying with coworkers means flying upside down or not at all.
258. You have explained that you have actually made money by building your RV and can prove it........of course no one believes you
259. If you ever used the bathtub to find a leak in your tanks.
260. If you ever bounced the remote signal for the TV off the wings in your living room. (For some reason, it worked better than line-of-sight).
261. You refer to UPS as ?The Big Brown Airplane Truck?
262. Your wife refers to the bathroom as the ?Schlosser Aviation Library?
263. You have so much scrap aluminum in your yard, Alcoa has you on speed dial.
264. You yell clear prop when starting the mower.
265. You seriously have plans to put a Van?s throttle quadrant on your mower.
266. You practice ?formation flying? on your drive to work to kill time.
267. Bug splats on your windshield become gun sights.
268. My auto mechanic enjoys and understands my funny ?squawk lists?.
269. You ponder: If cars had comm radios, maybe people wouldn?t be so darn rude on the road?
270. You wonder if you can have your mail forwarded to your garage (er, um, shop).
FresnoR
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271. You have asked the accountant if you could declare Van?s as a dependant.
272. You have to stand at the bathroom sink for ten minutes to give your legs time to reboot after sitting on the can for so long (reading the preview plans) you can?t feel your feet and walk like a zombie.
273. Your wife tells you over the phone that you got a package from Bob Nuckolls?and she knows who Bob Nuckolls is.
274. You pick up a drill bit from the bench and by feel you can tell if its a #30 or a #40.
275. In spite of showering before sleeping, you somehow still end up with aluminum shavings in your bed.
276. When there?s going to be a ?new addition? to your household, your first question to the obstretician (or vet, or whatever, depending on the ?addition?) is whether it will be an ?A? model...
277. Your wife sees you on the couch watching TV and instinctively says she ?can help you rivet in a few minutes?.
278. Your distant neighbors don?t know you by name, but recognize you as ?The Airplane Guy?.
279. Your wife rolls her eyes as you show her your latest delivery.....a very small bar of metal..... and you?re very excited as you try to explain to her that it?s ?Tungsten?......
280. Everyone you know greets you with, ?How?s the plane coming??, followed by ?When?s it going to be finished??
281. Your wife has a special laundry basket for your ?fiberglass clothes?, lest she wash out all the glass fiber in the same batch as your underwear
272. You have to stand at the bathroom sink for ten minutes to give your legs time to reboot after sitting on the can for so long (reading the preview plans) you can?t feel your feet and walk like a zombie.
273. Your wife tells you over the phone that you got a package from Bob Nuckolls?and she knows who Bob Nuckolls is.
274. You pick up a drill bit from the bench and by feel you can tell if its a #30 or a #40.
275. In spite of showering before sleeping, you somehow still end up with aluminum shavings in your bed.
276. When there?s going to be a ?new addition? to your household, your first question to the obstretician (or vet, or whatever, depending on the ?addition?) is whether it will be an ?A? model...
277. Your wife sees you on the couch watching TV and instinctively says she ?can help you rivet in a few minutes?.
278. Your distant neighbors don?t know you by name, but recognize you as ?The Airplane Guy?.
279. Your wife rolls her eyes as you show her your latest delivery.....a very small bar of metal..... and you?re very excited as you try to explain to her that it?s ?Tungsten?......
280. Everyone you know greets you with, ?How?s the plane coming??, followed by ?When?s it going to be finished??
281. Your wife has a special laundry basket for your ?fiberglass clothes?, lest she wash out all the glass fiber in the same batch as your underwear
Hawkeye7A
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You know you're an RV builder.....
282. when one of your best email buds is a guy you've never met but you've been corresponding with for 5 years because you bought a comm radio from him through the VAF classifieds. Hoping to do just that in a couple of months. BTW, Doug, 52F is about the midway point and that's our current plan. Any tips on where to stay, what to see while we hook up for the weekend? Thanx.
282. when one of your best email buds is a guy you've never met but you've been corresponding with for 5 years because you bought a comm radio from him through the VAF classifieds. Hoping to do just that in a couple of months. BTW, Doug, 52F is about the midway point and that's our current plan. Any tips on where to stay, what to see while we hook up for the weekend? Thanx.
Bugsy
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Your up at 5am on VAF
283. You have you cub scout den build an aluminum bird feeder
284. Have to buy antibiotic for your foot after removing the aluminum sliver
285. You lie to the clerk at Lowes about the real purpose for the part your looking for because you don't want to spend 15 min explaining your airplane. But you brag to the Harbor Freight clerk about painting your airplane with their $10 paint gun on sale.
283. You have you cub scout den build an aluminum bird feeder
284. Have to buy antibiotic for your foot after removing the aluminum sliver
285. You lie to the clerk at Lowes about the real purpose for the part your looking for because you don't want to spend 15 min explaining your airplane. But you brag to the Harbor Freight clerk about painting your airplane with their $10 paint gun on sale.
ron sterba
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Come see these rivets before i pick them up!
eric_marsh
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That would be three in the garage.
longranger
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