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Category: Cabin Top

Thus begins the cabin top

August 10, 2013August 11, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build
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I’ve been both looking forward to this section, and dreading it. It represents one of the last big structural components of the plane, but fiberglass

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Cabin top initial fit

August 11, 2013August 11, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build
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The cabin top is now (roughly) fitted to the fuse. With a new set of cut-off discs for my die grinder, and a nice belt

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More cabin cutting

August 14, 2013August 14, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build
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More of the same tonight. I cut the openings for the rear windows to size, and did a little more trim work on the windshield

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Back at it!

October 14, 2013October 14, 2013 Ed 1 Comment 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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Cabin top interior smoothing

October 16, 2013October 16, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build
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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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More base smoothing

October 19, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed 0 Comment 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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And again…

October 23, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed 0 Comment 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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Match drilling the cabin top

November 10, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build
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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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More cabin top stuff

November 13, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build
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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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Windscreen trimming

November 14, 2013November 15, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build
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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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Trimming rear windows

November 19, 2013November 19, 2013 Ed 2 Comments Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build
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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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Aerosport Overhead

November 23, 2013November 24, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build
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As I’ve mentioned before, I’m going to be using the Aerosport overhead console in my build. It’s a single piece of carbon fiber, very stiff,

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Rivet Strips

December 10, 2013December 10, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build
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Tonight, I started by deburring all the holes that were match drilled in the fuse for the cabin top attachment. Then I deburred all the

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Countersinking cabin top

December 12, 2013December 12, 2013 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build
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Quick night tonight. I got all the holes in the cabin top countersunk, and the holes in the fuse sides dimpled. The only difference from

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Aerosport Overhead Install

February 23, 2014March 16, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Cabin Top, Fuselage, RV10 Build
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I couldn’t wait to pull the seals off to see how the edges looked, so I missed that on the video. But I can tell

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