RV News That Caught My Eye Over The Last Day or So ….dr
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WDYDWYRTW? (8/3-4/2024)
Oshkosh 1992, it's been a journey!
Ext valve galling? IO-390
Dimple suitability
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Magnetometer Shelf …BH1166 PIREP
the shelf is here, but the magnetometer is sitting on a small 6x5” shelf , 24” or so off the fuse floor on part F-628. It is on drawings 32 and 30. Sorry only pic I have and it doesn’t show the shelf just outta sight on the center support #628. Been this way successfully for 10+ years. First the analog version and now digital version. For secu , good double side tape secured both.
Bars …Carl F.
I have one tungsten bar that I borrowed. The rest are steel.
In the photo the bars are lined up with most used on the left. Here the first is 80%, the tungsten 15%, the “shoe” 3%, the funny looking thin bar (a fly market $1 special) perhaps 1% (but without it some rivets can’t be done), the last two are rarely used.
I find the tungsten bar ok and it is best choice for some rivets to, but the larger steel bar is, at least for me, easier to keep square on the rivet. It is especially good at riveting bottom wing skin as the side of the bar is the rivet surface (so the bar fit in your palm as you are doing the contortions to get your hand under the skin.
Side note - I have helped a neighbor on his RV-14 project and used his long, thin tungsten bar. It was handy for some hard to buck tail cone rivets.
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WDYDWYRTW? (8/3-4/2024)
Oshkosh 1992, it's been a journey!
Oshkosh 1992, it's been a journey!
Happy days at Van's: THE demo ride: Some inspiration: I think I'm 90% done!:
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Ext valve galling? IO-390
Ext valve galling? IO-390
Hello everyone- Question for the engine guru's out there. Coming back from OSH I had a brief "morning sickness" on cylinder #4 at fire up, and had one 15 -20 sec stuck exhaust valve (EGT's dropped quickly) and then she came back to life and was fine the rest of the trip. After a quick VAF...
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Dimple suitability
Dimple suitability
I dimpled and backriveted these 3-3 rivets, using the dies I purchased. They looked relatively smooth and flush, but I've recently seen an RV with rivets that don't seem to have as much of a radius ring around the rivet. Instead, the one I saw didn't seem to have any transition between rivet and...
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$40,000 Engine Hoist
$40,000 Engine Hoist
Picked up my Thunderbolt IO-360 yesterday! Long awaited. Boy, it is GORGEOUS! Really makes my cheap engine hoist look good!
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Magnetometer Shelf …BH1166 PIREP
the shelf is here, but the magnetometer is sitting on a small 6x5” shelf , 24” or so off the fuse floor on part F-628. It is on drawings 32 and 30. Sorry only pic I have and it doesn’t show the shelf just outta sight on the center support #628. Been this way successfully for 10+ years. First the analog version and now digital version. For secu , good double side tape secured both.
Grt magnetometer or old school?
I've been in the process of a complete panel overhaul/IFR upgrade (custom etched panel, second grt horizon screen, garmin 650, etc) but I just realized my RV6A doesn't have a digital magnetometer installed (I'm not the original builder). Since I have to have a magnetic direction indicator, is...
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Bars …Carl F.
I have one tungsten bar that I borrowed. The rest are steel.
In the photo the bars are lined up with most used on the left. Here the first is 80%, the tungsten 15%, the “shoe” 3%, the funny looking thin bar (a fly market $1 special) perhaps 1% (but without it some rivets can’t be done), the last two are rarely used.
I find the tungsten bar ok and it is best choice for some rivets to, but the larger steel bar is, at least for me, easier to keep square on the rivet. It is especially good at riveting bottom wing skin as the side of the bar is the rivet surface (so the bar fit in your palm as you are doing the contortions to get your hand under the skin.
Side note - I have helped a neighbor on his RV-14 project and used his long, thin tungsten bar. It was handy for some hard to buck tail cone rivets.
Tungsten Bucking Bar
Sorry Newbie question. Searched and found nothing. Simple question what shape/weight tungsten bucking bar do you recommend (for tight places, riveting on bottom wing skin or back fuselage skins, etc). I am not new at building and have a BOX full of bucking bars. Been awhile since last project...
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Attn: VAF 'Reporters in the Field'! Well, it’s that time of year again! If you’re at the show, and you feel like posting a note on what you’re seeing, who you’re visiting with, what news you’re picking up, please consider sharing it with us in this thread. You can upload up to 10 pictures in...
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