Sunday, November 9, 2008

Projects

so i have been working away on the practice kits supplied from Van's. they have been great in helping me understand the process of aircraft construction.
like others have wrote, the toolkit was pretty basic and more a matter of getting used to all the tools involved. riveting, dimpling, de-burring, etc.
with the second kit underway, i've had a chance at some countersinking in a piece of angle aluminum. flush riveted and universal rivets were used to secure it.

From Pete and Tad's RV-9a Build


i discovered i will be needing a c-frame or DRDT-2 to get the skins dimpled in the next project and a pull riverter. also need to acquire a bench grinder to mount on the 3M scotchbrite wheel for deburring. a vixen file would be handy too!

i will post up some photos of the kits so far!
From Pete and Tad's RV-9a Build

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