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.



Wednesday, June 30, 2010

And More Nutplates... HOBBS 221.5 hrs

After I finished the fuel tank nutplates I thought I was done...nope. Still had nutplates for 6 inspection covers on the underside of the wings and four more for some wing attach bolts. This wasnt as bad, four per, so 'only' 24+4 more nutplates. Child's play after doing all of the fuel tank versions. Not too much exciting in this post, just chuggin' along.


Rivet, rivet, rivet...


Rivet tape to protect the spar while bucking...and tape on the bucking bar for the same reason. Treat these babies with TLC!


The finished goods...nice to take a look at a job well done



Priming the holes with wash primer and q-tip


After drying, blends in nicely with the gold anodized spar


And of course, a celebratory beer after finishing ALL of those nutplates. I had no idea it would take so long to do this step. I'm starting to see why the wings take 400+ hrs to complete! :)
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