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Ah the memories...before I finished section 6 I bought new parts from Vans AND used a few 5/32 rivets...

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Geoff,
What stick grips are those?

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Countersink the skin and doubler, nothing gets dimpled. Use a piece of scrap with a #8 dimple as a test piece to judge how much to countersink. The test dimple needs to fit in the countersink, just li ...

I'm at the same spot, cut it exactly in half.

Mine came all in one bag. Call Vans to report the shortage.

I found out the hard way that the right sender wire isn't an exact mirror of the left. Has this happened to anyone else, and how did you get a new piece of shepard's hook wire?

A general rule of thumb that helps keep the metal work tight is to start riveting in the middle and work towards the ends/corners.

I was able to scrounge a small handfull of AN470AD5 from my local A&P at the airport just for the asking. I just cut to the length I need.

The W1007D & E doublers have a flange that nests in there. Dimpling may make the doublers not fit tightly, as you will now have to dimple them too. The dimples may not set inside each other very ...

Vans also spin tested one of their factory birds, with a spin chute. Write up is on their website under the RV-10 specific information. They too lived to tell the tale.

I'm partial to the one EAA sells, better looking than plain-Jane.

I don't mean to hijack the thread from dlm46007, but reading this and reflecting on recent events in the RV-10 builders community, wouldn't one want to do the later portion of the flight testing with ...

An interesting thing I noticed when I did this was that when I laid the longeron on the fuse skin to check the bend, I noticed the long straight part had a slight bow in it, so I carefully took that o ...

Well, I guess the Epistle of Tim explains why we haven't seen a preliminary NTSB report yet, despite the fact that there are several accidents, some experimental, that are already on the NTSB site tha ...

Doug Reeves site vansairforce dot net had some pictures yesterday (Oct 3) that show a RV-10 just out of the paint shop. Cat whiskers on the VS top rib just below the rudder counterweight arm. Interest ...

I don't read Flying magazine (except in while waiting for my AME), I didn't stay in a Holiday Inn Express, but I do fly a Cessna T182T with G1000. The EFIS is primary, the three steam gauges, airpspee ...

Yes, mine was that way too. Took a long time to get both sides straight and parallel to each other. I used a small file instead of sanding. I kept the pressure off the flange so I didn't make the flan ...

Worth every penny. Goodbye smilies.

Duh. Performance-wise a Bonanza is about the only comparison there is. I was quoted $2K by Nation Air, Private ASEL, Instrument Airplane, High Performance and Complex Airplane endorsements, 450 accide ...