Ivan's RV-7

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August 16, 2022

The journey continues! Finally, I received my fuselage crate!

This is what I got a few days ago. A crate with the fuselage parts. I was hoping to get the wing kit earlier, but this will do, too. The interesting part is that I ordered the fuselage two months later (late May versus late March for the wing kit).

Fuselage crate as delivered!

A lot of inventorying! The aluminum parts are easy to account for, but hardware is where it gets tedious.

Some of the hardware bags are just mean. Here I need to sort out 148 LP4-3 from 28 MSP-42 from 4 CS4-4. MSP-42 rivets are easy to tell from LP4-3, LP4-3 mandrel is smooth whereas MSP-42 is not. However, CS4-4 (only 4 of them!) are kind of hard to see, even though they have a flat head.

Now this is just mean!

One of the bags contained the wrong rivet size, AN426AD3-3.5 instead of AN426AD3-4.5.

Oopsie -- wrong rivet size.

Finally, after a few days and many hours of inventorying, everything is on the shelves, in the hardware bins and boxes.

The parts on the shelves. Got many more bins! Hardware sorted. Other parts.

The next step is to work on the firewall bulkhead.