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.



Sunday, November 15, 2009

Drilling the Control Arms HOBBS 146.0 hrs

This is a task in the project where you need to 'match' drill the two control arms. Its a little tricky because the final size of the hole is 0.25" diameter and match it to the center bearing. So what I did was place a bushing with an outside diameter of 0.25" and inside diameter of 0.125". I placed the bushing inside the bearing and drilled a 0.125" pilot hole in both control arms. Then I disassembled the elevators and final drilled the holes to 0.25". This process gives me holes in both control arms that are aligned with each other and also with the bearing. Worked pretty slick.

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