Ron's RV7 Aircraft Factory


Welcome to my personal blog. This site was created as an informal description of my build progress in the construction of a Van's RV7 aircraft. A place where family/friends/builders/curiosity seekers can follow along. It is not intended to be a detailed description of every step in the building process as that would be much too time consuming. There are plenty of sites that do a great job in that arena, that is not my intention with this site. My intention is for this to be a philisophical/motivational/inspirational account of the emotional ups and downs of the life changing journey...and it will change your life. I hope this will give you an idea, through my eyes, of what its like to make this transformation. A note to other builders, I am not an expert so do not put your safety at risk by attempting anything you see on this site until you have done your own research, or send me an email so we can discuss it. Any deviations from the plans are not approved, nor endorsed by Van's Aircraft or myself. Thanks for visiting.



Monday, June 1, 2009

Aviation tools HOBBS: 40.0 hrs

My new DRDT-2 dimpler and support tables that I built,

New tools: rivet gun, drill, drill stop, pneumatic squeezer and tungsten bucking bar,

My 'practice' toolbox kit that I built,

The pneumatic squeezer in action, dimpling a spar

The horizontal stab assembled, cleco-ed & match drilled


Removing the blue plastic covering with a soldering iron, if you look closely you can see the lines scribed into the plastic.
In this view, you can see the plastic removed on the left side.
Looks like an airplane part, very cool!

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