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.



Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Access Cover HOBBS 398.0 hrs


Last night I ProSealed my access cover into place. This picture will look a little different than a standard install. The 'extra' hole you see is where my original vent line was before I decided to do ER tanks. Consequently, I plugged that hole with a nut/bolt and sealed it up. Also, the screws are 10-32 black stainless steel--also not standard because of my earlier mistake of not installing the right nut plates. Of course, like I did with the other tank I will spray this with primer when I am done to hide that ProSeal application.

So now, the baffle is the only thing left to finish this puppy up! Before closing it up, I will take pics of every bay for documentation purposes, wipe it out with MEK so its nice and clean (no construction dust) and test the capacitance plate continuity one more time. I've also started on the right flap.

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