---------------------------------------------------------- RV8-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 06/17/10: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 12:04 PM - Re: RV8A Building Question (Pete Cowper) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 12:04:14 PM PST US From: "Pete Cowper" Subject: RV8-List: 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message rv8-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/RV8-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/rv8-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/rv8-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.