REFLECTOR: DUMB MISTAKES

Alex Balic alex157 at direcway.com
Fri Jul 2 19:23:32 CDT 2004


Ronnie-
Actually a blessing in disguise- glass that tiny hole over completely and
cut yourself a hatch that you can use to access everything inside of the
nose- most folks are doing that now anyway........

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]On
Behalf Of Ronnie Brown
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 10:35 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: DUMB MISTAKES


Ah I've got one!

My kit has the flanges already molded for the nose gear doors and the nose
hatch.  The manual I got with my 1999 kit didn't show this but rather showed
how to lay up the needed flanges.

I trimmed my nose gear flanges correctly and built my nose gear doors.  Then
someone else on the reflector, confused by the older manual, cut the flange
off only to have to lay it back up again.  I pointed out to him that the
newer kits like his and mine already had the flange molded in.  All you
needed to do is cut the hole and leave the flange.

Guess what happened when I cut my nose hatch out???  I cut the #$!@!! flange
off.  Duh!!!

Ronnie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Martino" <tmartino at troubleshooter.com>
To: <reflector at www.tvbf.org>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 12:12 PM
Subject: REFLECTOR: DUMB MISTAKES


Once again the Reflector has made my life easier.  I needed to adjust my
main gear cable.  I was dreading the task of un-swaging the cable at the
gear-leg end and re-doing it.  Someone on the reflect said to simply
tighten the threaded end a little more into the rod-end bearing.  That
is so obvious - I feel like an idiot.  Problem solved!

That brings me to my main point ... I have a lot of experience building
and restoring aircraft.  I have a fully outfitted shop (hangar) right on
my property.  Yet, when I get "deep" into a project ... my eyes and
brain sometimes "short-circuit".

So I thought ... what a cool thread this would be:  "Dumb things we have
done and had to re-do".

* I am sure I can't be the only one who has did a beautiful
soldering job or crimped on some terminals ... only to find out your
forgot to slip on some heat-shrink.
* Or how about tie wrapping wires before your runs are completed
... then trying to "thread" some new wire into the bundle without
un-doing all of the wraps.
* I was so proud when I installed my "throttle" micro-switch on
the throttle body of my Lycoming ... only to find out the gear horn
"sounded" with full throttle instead of low.
* One of the best was when I struggled to route a push-pull cable
from nose to engine ... and forgot to thread it through the instrument
panel.  So I re-did it!  Then I realized I could've just remove the end
and fed it through the back side of the panel.
* I also loved having my entire instrument panel completed and
when I went to install it, I realized some of the components did not fit
well due to the "curvature" of the place behind the panel.

Catch my drift?  I could go on ... but I fear no one would ever fly with
me again.

Just kidding ... I always check and double check ... then have an
inspector look at all my work.  I have won prizes for my planes
including a "first place" in its class at Oshkosh.

I hope others will add some dumb mistakes so I don't appear to be a
lone-idiot.



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