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Jims RV-8
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Date: 3-20-2014
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Number of Hours: 2.70
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Manual Reference:
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Brief Description: Fuselage inventory #3
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I continued the hardware inventory and it is going along as slowly as expected. With the hardware kit –it’s the 80/20 rule at its’ finest…maybe even the 95/5 rule. By that I mean, all the skins and bigger steel parts are accounted for (missing one bundle of parts that Van’s will need to send, but that’s a different matter) and now it’s the nitty gritty of the washers, bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, platenuts – all the small parts! 95% of the size of the fuselage is only 5% of the parts count (I’m guessing, but you get the picture).
Van’s says to count/inventory everything except the rivets – and in order to mark and store the parts, you really do have to inventory them. For example, Bag “X” will have 47 bolts in it and there will be 5 different sizes of bolts in that bag. The inventory sheet will tell you that bag “X” will have 16 @ AN3-7A bolts, 12 @ AN3-6A bolts, 9 @ AN3-5A, 6 @ AN3-14A and 4 @ AN3-33A. Maybe other people know off hand which bolts are which just by looking at them, but not me! I separate them out and with the bolts, I usually stand them up on end to see their height. I group all the same sizes together and then I count them. Then I can tell what is what when the inventory numbers match up with the visual picture of the bolts I have in front of me. Then it’s time to go looking for a spot in one of the storage/organizers where I already have some AN3-6A bolts to add to…otherwise I mark the size on the organizer and start a new section. The washers are the worst, separating out a bag of 140 washers that are 2 different sizes. See…that’s why it takes so long…
I have said it before – but there are more, differing types of parts in the fuselage kit – so there are many more different parts than the wings. The wings were more about repetition and sheer numbers of parts. The fuse is all about different parts. I guess that’s why the instructions for the wings is on 13 pages and the fuselage instructions are 78 pages…. Oh well – it’s all progress.
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