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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.