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Subject: | RE: RV8A Building Question |
Jerry,
You will quickly find that that builders manual gives you the building
sequence so you don't get too far ahead and have to drill rivets out to get
a later part to fit. The plans show each part that the manual refers to, but
it you can't find the named part in the multi=page plans there is a section
at the front of the builders manual with each part number and the page of
the plans you will find it on which limits how many pages of plans you need
to thumb through to find the part to see what it looks like so you can
rummage through your box of new parts to find it.
The George & Becki Orndorff tapes are really great to show what the builders
manual is talking about as George holds the part up, explains what needs to
be done to the part and how it fits to the other parts and to the airframe.
His early tail sections show every step in drilling deburring, dimpling and
fitting and riveting the part. As the tapes progress (as your experience
will also) he speeds up the assembly tasks as you have gained experience.
The tapes are really well worth it to bring the excellent builder's manual
and plans "to life" if you have been a deskbound pencil pusher all your life
like me and your mother made you take college prep courses with no machine
shop and auto shop back in high school.
If you start at the beginning of the builders manual and identify each part
in succession to see if it is attached to the airframe you should be able to
work up to the next part that is still in the unused parts box where you
will restart the building process. I check off each step in my builders
manual with the date I did that task so I know where I left off and if there
is something I skipped and need to go back to later so I don't forget it.
The other posters are correct that you will have checked over the assembly
done so far and have a better understanding of how it was assembled. If the
rivet heads look decent just keep going and don't get locked into perfection
rather than functionality or you will be grey-haired like me and still
puttering away and not flying like Matt Dralle who seems to have built his
plane and has it in the air in only a couple of years!
Remember . . . "Experimental aviation is a way of life, not necessarily a
means of transportation."
Pete Cowper
RV-8 #81139 (working on the fuselage forward belly skins)
Visalia Municipal Airport, Hanger B-5
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