Desert Rat
Well Known Member
Hey All,
I'm going in a couple of weeks to look at a used/partially completed RV7 kit. The guy has completed the empennage and wings, but didn't prime anything but the spars.
If I were building this from scratch , I'd likely prime the ribs and faying surfaces of the skins, but I know that lots of people don't bother.
Obviously, there is the financial aspect since it's less than a new kit, and if the build quality is otherwise reasonably good it would be nice to pick up something with a few hundred hours of labor already knocked out.
Everything coming out of Wichita these days is primed like crazy, but I'm currently flying a 64 year old c170 that seems to have not fallen out of the sky, despite not having a lick of primer inside it.
I don't want to add to the primer wars, I'm just looking for real world experience. Has anybody skipped priming the internals and later regretted it? I'm currently in Wichita, but there's always the potential for a relocation to a salt air climate in the future.
Thanks,
Terry
I'm going in a couple of weeks to look at a used/partially completed RV7 kit. The guy has completed the empennage and wings, but didn't prime anything but the spars.
If I were building this from scratch , I'd likely prime the ribs and faying surfaces of the skins, but I know that lots of people don't bother.
Obviously, there is the financial aspect since it's less than a new kit, and if the build quality is otherwise reasonably good it would be nice to pick up something with a few hundred hours of labor already knocked out.
Everything coming out of Wichita these days is primed like crazy, but I'm currently flying a 64 year old c170 that seems to have not fallen out of the sky, despite not having a lick of primer inside it.
I don't want to add to the primer wars, I'm just looking for real world experience. Has anybody skipped priming the internals and later regretted it? I'm currently in Wichita, but there's always the potential for a relocation to a salt air climate in the future.
Thanks,
Terry