REFLECTOR: DUMB MISTAKES

[Ronnie Brown]

I built the removable canard hatch and used two removable pin hinges to
fasten it.  Works really well.  I can get to the back of my panel in about
15 seconds including removing the nose hatch!  Not as accessible as the
Really Big Hatch, but it is easy to install and remove and access is very
good.

Ronnie


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Balic" <alex157 at direcway.com>
To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 8:23 PM
Subject: RE: REFLECTOR: DUMB MISTAKES


| 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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