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Jeff Rosson
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 Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:55 am Post subject: Empennage Kit Arrived! |
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Things are starting to happen! My first kit arrived, today, a whole day early. My tools are on order - some from Browns, but most from Plane Tools. Shaun, there, was really nice and helpful. They are in Kansas, and I am orginally from Kansas (KU graduate), and they offer some really good prices on what seems to be a pretty complete tool kit. I am getting a pneumatic sequeezer and the DRDT-2 dimpler, which everyone seems to be raving about.
I drove my daughter's VW Bug in to work today, but I will load the kit into my sister-in-law's van to take home so I won't have to wait. My finger surgery is set for Thursday, so I guess that will give me some time to study the manual. I am the kind that wants to open the box and get to work, so not having all my tools and a hand that won't quite be ready to work will be good in that it will force me to read the manual and to inventory and organize things a bit. Organization is not my strong point.
Thanks for all your help and encouragement. The next couple of years ought to be really great.
Jeff Rosson
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mark(at)macomb.com
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject: Empennage Kit Arrived! |
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Jeff,
You will need a few days of recovery after the surgery and this will be
the perfect opportunity to get yourself organized. It sounds to me that
you won't have any trouble in this area. First step is to inventory the
parts and get started on the manual. Get a cabinet ready for the tools
with a handy spots in the front for the drill and the rivet gun. The
time honored way of storing clecos is to cut the side out of a milk jug.
I hope you have at least 2 sets of cleco pliers. I like having
individual containers for the rivets. That way you get out what you need
and it is less confusing. Get a board or table set up so you can have
ready access to the plans. You may wish to scan or photocopy the plans
in case you get grease on the originals.
Happy building.
Mark Grieve
Non-practicing builder
Jeff Rosson wrote:
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Things are starting to happen! My first kit arrived, today, a whole day early. My tools are on order - some from Browns, but most from Plane Tools. Shaun, there, was really nice and helpful. They are in Kansas, and I am orginally from Kansas (KU graduate), and they offer some really good prices on what seems to be a pretty complete tool kit. I am getting a pneumatic sequeezer and the DRDT-2 dimpler, which everyone seems to be raving about.
I drove my daughter's VW Bug in to work today, but I will load the kit into my sister-in-law's van to take home so I won't have to wait. My finger surgery is set for Thursday, so I guess that will give me some time to study the manual. I am the kind that wants to open the box and get to work, so not having all my tools and a hand that won't quite be ready to work will be good in that it will force me to read the manual and to inventory and organize things a bit. Organization is not my strong point.
Thanks for all your help and encouragement. The next couple of years ought to be really great.
Jeff Rosson
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Jeff Rosson
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:12 am Post subject: Re: Empennage Kit Arrived! |
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Well, here is my story.
I was expecting the kit to arrive Wednesday at my place of business. I normally drive a pickup truck but, on that day, I was dropping my youngest daughter off at school for Driver’s Education, and she wanted me to take her in the older daughters WB Beetle. Something about not wanting to be seen in an old, in-need-of-washing truck teenaged girls don’t like. OK, no problem. I will save gas. So, I get to work, check the Fed Ex page to see where my kit is and, lo, it is on the delivery truck! Well, no way will that empennage kit fit in a Beetle. Dern. Wait, my sister-in-law works here, too, so I can load it up in her van and get it home. That works, so I looking forward to actually getting off work a bit early so I can get home and open my packages, using the excuse of having to go pickup my daughter, of course, but later my daughter decides she wants me to drop her and a friend off at the mall for a while. Grrrrr. I want to go home and look at my airplane-making parts. How many fathers win these kinds of arguments with their 15 y/o daughters? I drop her off at the mall and come back to work to make up for ordering airplane things during working hours, until I finally get the call to come pick them up. Finally! I get home, haul the kit packages to the shop and am about to tear in to them when I remember, hey, I need to take some pictures. Everyone takes pictures of their boxes before they open them up! So, I rush back to the house (my shop is about 150 feet away from the house), get back, arrange the packages to be photoesque, turn on the camera and…..nothing. What? Yeah, the battery was dead! Ugh. OK, I rush back to the house and grab the charger, bring it out to the shop and let it charge a few minutes while I finish up some work on a drawer I had been doing previously and in to which my new tools will go. I put the battery back in and…..still dead. Back in the charger the battery goes and I say the heck with pictures, I’m checking this thing out! So, I open the smaller box and take out every paper-wrapped piece and lay it out on top of my table saw, figuring that the battery will certainly have enough charge by the time I am done to get a picture. Well, I was wrong. Back into the charger. I hope the battery is not damaged and isn’t taking a charge at all! I unwrapped all the parts and marveled at the ribs and things, and put them back into the box for safety, saving all of the paper (I have heard you should save the paper for later use). Oh, I didn’t unwrap the fiberglass parts, not wanting to risk scratching them. I moved the box to the side and lifted up the bigger box, clip the straps and open ‘er up and was beholdened by the site of pre-formed, blue-plastic covered aluminum. Surely by now the battery has enough charge to get a few pictures. I loaded the battery in the camera and ….yes! it powered up. I was able to actually get a few pictures this time, some of which I will eventually post. I didn’t disturb the contents of the box as I didn’t want to risk damaging anything. The mosquitoes were starting to get bad (I will need and A/C in my shop) so I took the manual inside to read, and tonight (Wednesday) I will try to do an inventory. My hand surgery will be really simple tomorrow. It really shouldn’t impair me much at all. The main injury is healing, so all they will do is make a small cut to remove an imbedded splinter. I will probably start working on the project later that day.
But, I ordered some of my tools from Brown, mainly a Sioux 3x gun and air drill which they had a special on, but most of the materials are coming from Plane Tools. With a pneumatic squeezer and DRDT-2 dimpler, and an adjustable set thrown in for free, their tool kit was a best value, IMHO. The Brown items are already on their way, and the Plane Tools parts should arrive next week. They had a slight delay awaiting a new shipment of dimplers. Both companies have been great to work with. Shaun was really helpful and I am expecting some great tools from him.
Thanks to everyone who has been making suggestions and wishing me well. I am really a bit overwhelmed with the support being shown.
Jeff
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