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Disassembled and Prepared Horizontal Stab.
No pictures today, I didn’t get much time in the shop with a long work day and a late meeting. I did get enough time to disassemble the stab and get it ready for dimpling and priming. Hopefully I can put in some good work tomorrow.
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Match drilled Horizontal Stab
Today I finished the assembly on the H-Stab, right side and left sides have been match drilled and are ready for dimpling. This was after wrestling the second skin onto the skeleton. I then lined up and clamped the center ribs for drilling. These were then removed, deburred and then clecoed in place…
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Horizontal stab
Today was a big day, I spent about 8 hours on the stab. I finished smoothing out the front spar reinforcing bars and match drilling everything to the spars, along with the spar doublers. I then clecoed the Stab skeleton together, match drilled the rib holes to the spars and deburred the…
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Empennage kit day 1
My empennage kit arrived yesterday, and this morning I woke up bright an early to begin the unboxing experience. This a just a small fraction of the parts that are in the kit, but I went through the packing list and marked each item with a check as I found it and inventoried it. Here’s…
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Ordered Empannage Kit
Here’s the garage all done (the pile in the middle is ‘give-away’) and with the garage empty again I figure why not place the order for the tail! The shelves in the back right are for inventorying items as I get them and also tool storage and miscellaneous items (currently storing my old RC airplane…
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Finished (95%) the workshop and Vans Practice Toolbox kit
It’s been a few weeks of cleaning the garage and organizing everything onto some new shelves we got so that I can finally finish setting up the workshop. I also got my Isham Toolkit delivery last weekend and spent a little while checking out all the tools that come with it. But today I put…
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Finished my Workbenches
Today I finished my second workbench, and did some organization and clean up of the garage. Short day today, but glad I knocked out that second bench. Really love the design and how sturdy they are. There probably won’t be any updates for a while, Im waiting for the tools to deliver and then ill…
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Ordered more tools
Today after completing my workbench I went ahead and placed an order for a Vans RV Toolkit from Isham Tools. I have read many good things about this toolkit on vansairforce.net and thats what I am going with. I will probably collect more tools throughout the build, but figured thats a good place to start.
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Finished One Work Bench
I spent the day getting a bunch of wood and tools together to build a couple EAA 1000 Workbenches. These things are great! It will end up costing me about $60 a piece for both completed benches and these will last me a lifetime. Check out the plans here if you’re interested: EAA 1000 Workbench Heres…
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About me
Hello! My name is George Fahmy and I’m building a Van’s Aircraft RV-7 and I’ll be documenting my build on this website! Its going to definitely be a big project, but I think I should be able to handle it. My callsign N890GF is a combination of my birth month/year/initials. I spent a long time…
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