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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:47 am    Post subject: extra hardware and building materials Reply with quote

[quote] From: Tim Olson <Tim(at)MyRV10.com>
Date: 2006/02/07 Tue AM 06:44:28 PST
To: rv10-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Re: Pictures of bulkhead cracks



I've got extra wire, a couple various aux. battery relays that I tried,
a pretty good pile of blue AN hardware that I bought while trying to
cover for shortages and trying to figure out a better fuel valve
install, pounds and pounds of extra bolts and screws, dozens of extra
nutplates bought because of shortages, hundreds of pop-style rivets
bought because of shortages, a few pounds of AN426/AN470 rivets bought
so I'd never run short again, A good sized roll of E-Glass used for
the windshield fairing, extra firewall material, a brand new pair of
NACA vents that I thought I'd use to try to come up with something
better for the front seat air, the old original fuel valve, and a
bunch more that I can't even remember right now. Some of it I'll
get rid of over time, and I'll probably list on my site what I'd
like to sell off. Some of it as you mention will be kept for
future maintenance. Not much of it would I regret, because I was
saved numerous times from stopping work due to shortages. In fact,
I didn't go far enough. I found last week that I was shorted
on 2 AN310-3 castle nuts for the rudder cables...so today I have
*gasp* temporary nuts in place to hold the cables tightly. I now
have a HUGE order of 12 nuts coming from Aircraft Spruce. In the
final 2 months of building, I probably had 10-15 small parts orders
from Wicks and ACS. At least from ACS you pay shipping only, and
no handling charge...but it makes those 12 nuts nearly double in
price. Buying a minimum of 2 spares of every nut/bolt/washer/screw/
electrical terminal/nutplate/AN Fitting ... will probably save
you many times over, but, you'll still maybe never have everything
you need on hand. Note that in many cases above, it's not practical
to buy only a couple. In the case of screws, your best bet is
often to buy 100 quantities of common screws from Aircraft Spruce.
Then you get a 20% discount on them, and have a good pile on hand.
Just this week I was short on AN509-8R10's and almost panicked that
I was out of them. But, much to my surprise, I had ordered 100
of them from Aircraft Spruce that had just showed up 2 days earlier
and I hadn't put in their trays yet. That's a pretty good save when
you're only <10 days from flying.

Tim


Tim Olson -- RV-10 #40170
DO NOT ARCHIVE


David McNeill wrote:
>
>
> Could not agree more. Just don't discard the pile; ongoing maintenance
> always requires occasional replacement of hardware. Besides you may
> build again. After finishing the Glastar, I saw the 10 at OSH and
> decided I needed a four place aircraft to replace the TC177RG.
>
> You did not mention the list of things purchased but not used either due
> to fit, style or function. I still have a power diode left from the
> first purchase of three when building the Glastar. Still have an extra
> starter relay,extra voltage regulator, extra circuit breakers. etc
> ---


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:57 am    Post subject: extra hardware and building materials Reply with quote

The truth about your homebuilt is that once a project, always a project, even after it's flying. You may not be building, but you will be running a maintenance and improvement shop. You'll want a supply of nuts, bolts, pieces of aluminum sheet and angle, wire, switches and all kinds of little stuff for continuing to tweak your pride and joy and replace things that get lost during maintenance or just disappear somehow. My -7A has been flying a little over two years and I constantly use the hardware supplies for little projects on it.

Recently added a flush head bolt to the nosegear trunnion to keep the bearing spacer on the axle from turning. Added a switch to the panel labeled "WX RADAR" to power the NavAir/XM radio setup on an add-on Toshiba PDA. Re-routed a few wire runs in the engine compartment and added additional support for the alternate air cable. It just goes on and on, and is part of the fun of owning a homebuilt.

The RV-10 QB wings and fuse arrived recently, and I was delighted to find I had left over from the first airplane enough 22 AWG, 18 AWG and 14 AWG wire, flex conduit, and Mate N Lok connectors to run an extra conduit and wire up the left wing with pitot heat, a 7 wire TruTrak servo harness, and runs for the nav lights and strobes on the wingtip. Will have to wait for a resupply from ACS to wire up the right wing, but it is great having a stock of these kinds of things on hand at all times.

Keep poundin' them rivets...

-Dan Masys
40448 - closing L wing

[quote] From: Tim Olson <Tim(at)MyRV10.com>
Date: 2006/02/07 Tue AM 06:44:28 PST
To: rv10-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Re: Pictures of bulkhead cracks



I've got extra wire, a couple various aux. battery relays that I tried,
a pretty good pile of blue AN hardware that I bought while trying to
cover for shortages and trying to figure out a better fuel valve
install, pounds and pounds of extra bolts and screws, dozens of extra
nutplates bought because of shortages, hundreds of pop-style rivets
bought because of shortages, a few pounds of AN426/AN470 rivets bought
so I'd never run short again, A good sized roll of E-Glass used for
the windshield fairing, extra firewall material, a brand new pair of
NACA vents that I thought I'd use to try to come up with something
better for the front seat air, the old original fuel valve, and a
bunch more that I can't even remember right now. Some of it I'll
get rid of over time, and I'll probably list on my site what I'd
like to sell off. Some of it as you mention will be kept for
future maintenance. Not much of it would I regret, because I was
saved numerous times from stopping work due to shortages. In fact,
I didn't go far enough. I found last week that I was shorted
on 2 AN310-3 castle nuts for the rudder cables...so today I have
*gasp* temporary nuts in place to hold the cables tightly. I now
have a HUGE order of 12 nuts coming from Aircraft Spruce. In the
final 2 months of building, I probably had 10-15 small parts orders
from Wicks and ACS. At least from ACS you pay shipping only, and
no handling charge...but it makes those 12 nuts nearly double in
price. Buying a minimum of 2 spares of every nut/bolt/washer/screw/
electrical terminal/nutplate/AN Fitting ... will probably save
you many times over, but, you'll still maybe never have everything
you need on hand. Note that in many cases above, it's not practical
to buy only a couple. In the case of screws, your best bet is
often to buy 100 quantities of common screws from Aircraft Spruce.
Then you get a 20% discount on them, and have a good pile on hand.
Just this week I was short on AN509-8R10's and almost panicked that
I was out of them. But, much to my surprise, I had ordered 100
of them from Aircraft Spruce that had just showed up 2 days earlier
and I hadn't put in their trays yet. That's a pretty good save when
you're only <10 days from flying.

Tim


Tim Olson -- RV-10 #40170
DO NOT ARCHIVE


David McNeill wrote:
>
>
> Could not agree more. Just don't discard the pile; ongoing maintenance
> always requires occasional replacement of hardware. Besides you may
> build again. After finishing the Glastar, I saw the 10 at OSH and
> decided I needed a four place aircraft to replace the TC177RG.
>
> You did not mention the list of things purchased but not used either due
> to fit, style or function. I still have a power diode left from the
> first purchase of three when building the Glastar. Still have an extra
> starter relay,extra voltage regulator, extra circuit breakers. etc
> ---


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:34 am    Post subject: extra hardware and building materials Reply with quote

Thanks Tim for the two DNA's or the untrimmed versions of this thread would
still be getting into archives again & again. Have been flying for more than
four years & still find the need for "left overs". (note the last set of
>>>'s, 5 of the them) I think Dan's post should be in the archives. KABONG

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