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Brent s RV-8 Project N784DE
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Date: 7-25-2007
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Number of Hours: 1.70
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Brief Description: Left fuel tank inboard rib
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Well we just returned from our short trip to Oshkosh, WI last night. For anyone who isn't a pilot, "oshkosh" is the premier event of the year. 12,000+ airplanes, 500,000 people and anything and everything you could ever want to see.
Anyway, since July has been a "dry" month working on the airplane I have resolved to make up for some lost ground and with my batteries re-charged from Oshkosh, I dived in this morning at 5am. I cleaned up the T405 and T407 inboard rib support hardware and cleaned everything up with MEK. Then time to mix a batch of ProSeal. I used a more than normal as this is an exterior rib and there is no such thing as too much sealant. I did a 1.5 oz batch and that was about right. I then comensed to cleco in my gooey rib and then it was time to squeeze all those rivets. Again, because this is an outboard rib, the rivet spacing is tight so there are lots of rivets. I then dabbed all the set rivets with sealant and ran a fillet of sealant along the outside flanges with the extra I had in the cup. I set a goal to just do a rib a day until it was time to close out the tank with the rear baffle. Fun stuff, just kiddin'! Actually, it went pretty smooth with no "drama." This rib isn't quite done, as I still need to add two pieces to the nose section of the rib, were the tank attaches to the fuselage and then install all the hardware permantely and goop everything up so it doens't leak.
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spreading a 1/16" layer of ProSeal onto the rib flange (top and bottom) I used the vise to hold it.
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Squeezing those rivets wasn't bad at all.
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Another rib done.
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