Dave’s RV-7A Building Log

I wanted to keep working on the project, but couldn’t find something easy on the wings to work on. I decided to start sorting the hardware for the fuselage. Adele helped me put all of the rivets into the organizer. There were a couple of new sizes, but it’s mainly just more of the same rivets. A lot more. I also sorted through some of the hardware. There are a lot more bolts, washers, and nuts in this kit. I might have to buy one more organizer.

I know some people just leave everything in the bags, and then hunt through them when they need a part. I find it much easier to spend a few hours organizing everything up front. It saves a lot of time in the long run.

I bought some cheap plastic shelves to hold all of the fuselage parts, so I could get rid of the crates. Putting stuff on the shelves saved a lot of space.

The 30-day time limit for claiming missing items from the fuselage kit is almost running out, so it was time to do an inventory. The number of parts in the fuselage kit is daunting. I recognized the big pieces, but there are dozens of little parts as well. I didn’t even inventory the contents of the bags. I just checked to make sure every bag was in there. I’m going to buy some shelves to store the parts. For now, I just put everything back in the boxes after I unwrapped and counted it. Adele helped me quite a bit with the inventory.

This kit certainly looks like more fun than the wings.

The fuselage kit arrived.

I opened the tops and dug out a bunch of the paper. I don’t want to dive too far into it until I get the wings wrapped up.

Humongo bag o’ parts.

Fuselage kit is scheduled to arrive the week of June 21. Woohoo! Even though I have a ton of work left to do on the wings, I can hardly wait until it gets here.

Faxed in the order for the fuselage