The first step on the journey to building an aircraft is preparation! For me that has taken 2 years of researching, learning about techniques, and looking at every possible aircraft kit out there!
I’m fortunate to have a 2 car garage which I expect should be large enough to work in, so I spent the weekend taking rubbish to the recycling centre, organising everything, I even mopped the floor!
I’ve got 2 workbenches on order that roughly meet the spec of the EAA workbench that is mentioned on numerous posts, but I decided to just order them instead (hopefully a good plan)!
When I almost pulled the trigger on building previously I bought some tools, such as the DRDT-2 dimpler, which I bought in Jan of 2021- it’s never been out of the box until today! So time to set that up, and give it a try!
Another item I bought back in 2021 was the Vans Toolbox Practice kit, which I have made a start to – I plan to just mess around with it and get a feel for working with aluminium, I’m also going to use it as a test process for priming with Alocrom 1200 (Alodine).
Building an RV-14A 