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Rear seat riveting

November 21, 2013November 21, 2013 Ed Covers and Floors, Fuselage, RV10 Build

I’m finishing up a previous section tonight. I’m finally getting around to riveting in the rear seat pans. Before I could do this, I had

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Electronic idea exploration

November 20, 2013November 20, 2013 Ed RV10 Build

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’ve installed aftermarket heat tee’s in my RV10. This was done to allow Colleen and I to be able

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Trimming rear windows

November 19, 2013November 19, 2013 Ed Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build

Like the front windscreen, I am using windows from Cee Bailey’s for the rear windows. As I received them, they were pretty close, but did

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Windscreen trimming

November 14, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build

Instead of the stock windscreen that comes with the kit, and the rest of the transparencies in the plane, I went with a window kit

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More cabin top stuff

November 13, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build

Tonight I finished match drilling the bottom of the door openings and then counter sunk all the needed screw holes. I went a tad deeper

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Match drilling the cabin top

November 10, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build

As the title says, today I enlisted the help of my very pregnant assistant to set the cabin top on the fuselage. The rear of

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And again…

October 23, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build

Once more, same as before! This time I started by taking a bit of material off the back of the cabin top, as it was

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More base smoothing

October 19, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build

Tonight I sanded down and smoothed out the micro I put down last time. Once sanded down, I could see places that still had voids,

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Cabin top interior smoothing

October 16, 2013October 16, 2013 Ed Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build

Lots of sanding tonight to take off the large bumps and other high spots from the fiberglass molding process. There are some pretty rough spots.

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Back at it!

October 14, 2013October 14, 2013 Ed Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build

It’s been two months (to the day), but progress is once again being made! From some of our other posts, you may have gathered that

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