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Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:53 pm**

Got a couple of boxes today

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:19 pm**

Yay

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:32 pm**

Awesome Kelly! Congrats on getting started!! Take lots of pics!

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:10 pm**

Can some one say...INVENTORY TIME?

Congrats on getting started with your project. Remember that over the next few years you will go through every emotion known to man, but always keep with it! The highs are WAY better than the lows. My best piece of advice (if you haven't done it already) is find people in the area with RV's and BUM RIDES AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE! You need to keep that goal of the end result right in front of you!

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:56 pm**

I'm drooling. Gotta get some therapy for this rivet withdrawl I have....

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:31 pm**

Ah the begining of a wonderful journey. It will have it's trials and triumphs to be sure. Keep at it, and the end result/reward will be unlike any other.

I remember being at that stage back in January of 2003

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:14 pm**

What do you do?
Deburr, prime, cleco, rivet. Repeat until your airframe is complete.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:58 pm**

Congrats! Every day focus on the next small task at hand. Soon you'll look back and not believe what you've accomplished!

Cheers,
Guy

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:54 am**

Cool! Time to get to work!

CJ

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:56 am**

Thanks everyone! Mike (whose tools I bought) will be coming over tonight or tomorrow night to help me get started. I inventoried the small box last night, so the remaining inventory should take maybe 15 minutes tonight. I'm EXCITED!! Too bad I have to work

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:54 am**

Congrats Kelly! The project now begins. Take one step and drawing at a time to keep from getting initially overwhelmed, but read ahead when you aren't allowed in the shop, it helps.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:08 pm**

I remember those first boxes, just about 1.5 years ago.... It's kind of like your 1st solo, you won't ever forget! As you go the boxes get bigger but they are just as fun to open.... My next big box comes in about 2 months!

Posted: **Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:55 pm**

Lance get a nice big sheet of clear heavy plastic about like you use to cover the insulation on the wall of a house under construction. Also have some type of a cover paper or clean cardboard the sign of a drawing and cover it first with the opaque material and then the plastic when now working on the project. The plans can fade when exposed to sun or bright lights. Some people have been able to laminate them with plastic but that could be pricy.

Good luck Lance and when my RV-6A is flying I will make a run up your way.

Bob

Posted: **Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:27 pm**

One week progress report

And then decided that I can make millions in the ricer market

Posted: **Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:40 pm**

Looks like you are off to a 'flying' start with the HS!

Posted: **Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:56 pm**

OMG, Kelly!

What is up with that SCARY PANEL in the background!?! Just in time for HALLOWEEN!

Are those additional circuit conductors bent upwards or antennas?

Do something about it, would you?

CJ

Posted: **Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:59 pm**

captain_john wrote: Do something about it, would you?

Pretty funny coming from a guy known as "Sparky"

Posted: **Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:01 pm**

captain_john wrote:
Do something about it, would you?

CJ

I edited my post for you, is that better?

It's all above board, but we take the cover off if we want to hook up the welder "below board"

Posted: **Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:43 pm**

That's okay, now what can you do about the 12/2 Romex reflecting in the car windshield in this picture?

It needs to be supported withing 12" from a connector unless it is a lighting whip within a suspended ceiling!

CJ

Posted: **Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:17 pm**

You mean the JUMPER CABLES in the front seat?

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Uhh.... what do I do now?

Uhh.... what do I do now?

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