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Great build so far, just came across your channel now and loving what I see!!

Wowwwww using pulled rivets? Is duct tape next? /s 😂

Of course you would keep your airplane parts in your VW Van, you hippie.

Crazy amount of twist. Its funny how cautious we all are at the beginning of the build with everything and then later on crazy stuff like this hardly phases us. Looking good

Wow, that twisting was wild!

I find bottom skin riveting also, just ask Carmel.

Hello Bald Man building an airplane, welcome back to youtube

Oh how fun! Tank sealant 🤗

It can help to use PVC tape to mask where you are going to apply sealant so when you pull the tape you get clean lines.

Off topic: Love the VW Van!! Proposed to my wife in one way back in 1975 while in Greece. I'm also building an RV-14, currently finishing up the top skins on the left wing. Looking into building the cradle soon. Tail cone and its control surfaces complete (less 'glas tips). Thanks for your videos. I reference them to confirm I'm not the only one with the same issue or just to see how you did something. But, for this one, that van really popped out to me. :)

I demoed Van's tailwheel RV-14. It had the steps installed. I'm 5'9" with a 30" inseam. For me, if they weren't there, I would have been fine. Having them made it an easy boarding. Like you point out, having them makes it less likely for anyone to stop on the flaps, no matter the placarding. I'll be installing steps (pegs) on my -14 as well.

I think I would have just bought another wing kit and built it anew.

Adding more rivets between the cracked ones?

Not priming the new bits?

Use Robertson (Square Drive) screws !!!!!!

Ugh how infuriating

Well done! At least the second wing will go faster. It always go faster the second time. I've got to do this work too, except my bottom skins are not riveted, which I imagine will make some parts of this much easier.

Keep up the great work

some days I wonder if Vans wants us to finish our projects.

4:08 in, what is the circuit board-battery?

Ouch. Nice job. It looks frightening. You did great! 🎉

I think I got lucky and all my hinge rivet heads are inboard. It was not planned that way.

Thank you for sharing this. I would rather have to build two new fuel tanks from scratch than have to do this, but alas, like you, I must.

Hopefully everyone doing this has the rivet heads on the flap bracket facing inboard, otherwise drilling them out from the tail side would be much harder

That was painful. Let me know if you need a beer!

So sorry you have to tear apart your wings to remove LCP's. I was lucky in that I hadn't started on my -14A build when I learned about laser cut parts. Thanks for sharing your build with us.

This is work I've been dreading doing because I don't have confidence that the technique in the SB will actually give good results. Is there anything you did that is different from the plans, or wish you did different, that could help simplify the process or improve the outcome?

The Roxy is near the Van’s booth! Don’t go downtown! Some of the best food on the field!

The moment i would realize i had to remove all that stuff and drill out so many rivets, i would have gone to Culver’s for some ice cream and taken a week off to think about what id done.

Ouch

Oh boy. Sorry Ryan

I always liked 85B did my first solo in that airplane ✈️

The KIT is THEIR "product". The DIMPLES AND FINISHED AIRPLANE ARE YOUR PRODUCT! Such seems to be the attitude of every "expert" online saying it's NBD. No Big Deal. Their "explanation" for the process "modification" is they were SO "SWAMPED" WITH ORDERS DUE TO "WORLD EVENTS" STARTING IN 2020 THAT THEY "HAD" TO "RAMP UP PRODUCTION" AND FOR SOME CRAZY REASON ALL THE PUNCH PRESS-EQUIPPED "JOBBERS" WERE COMPLETELY "BACKLOGGED" WITH WORK WHILE THE LASER CUTTER "JOBBERS" HAD NO "BACKLOGS" AT ALL AND WERE ABLE TO JUST JUMP RIGHT INTO "JOBBING" FOR VAN'S AIRCRAFT "MANUFACTURING". THIS "MECHANIC" HAS ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT WHEN ONE "JOBBER" SHOP IS "SWAMPED" AND ANOTHER IS "SWEEPING FLOORS" AND THEY BOTH DO "IDENTICAL" JOBS AS FAR AS THE "PRODUCT" THEN "MARKEKT FORCES" ARE AT WORK AND IF YOU VALUE YOUR FINISHED PRODUCT THEN IT'S PROBABLY WORTH WAITING IN LINE WHERE THERE IS ONE VS. GOING TO THE GHOST TOWN "JOBBER" THAT HAS NO JOBS IN PROGRESS. AND THE REALITY IS THAT PUNCHING HOLES AND CUTTING HOLES ARE TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PROCESSES FOR A REASON. ESPECIALLY IN ALUMINUM WHICH IS THE DEVIL TO CUT WITH ANY PROCESS RELATIVE TO STEEL. IF YOU CAN'T CUT HOLES OR EVEN OPENINGS IN ALUMINUM WITH ANY "THERMAL" CUTTING PROCESS THAT WORKS "GREAT" FOR STEEL SUCH AS OXY-ACETYLENE OR PLASMA CUTTING OR AIR CARBON ARC CUTTING - AND BELIEVE ME YOU CANNOT - THEN A "HIGH TECH" LASER THAT DOES THE EXACT SAME THING - HEATS THE BASE METAL TO ITS MELTING POINT SO A GAS "JET" CAN "BLOW" IT OUT OF THE "KERF" - THE "FINISHED PRODUCT" IS GOING TO SUCK. AND THOSE PROCESSES ARE NOT USED TO PRECISION CUT STEEL SHEET METAL EITHER. EVER. AT LEAST NOT BY "ENGINEERS". THEY ARE USED ON "PLATE" AND THEN NEVER FOR PRECISION CUTTING OF SOMETHING LIKE A HOLE INSTEAD OF AN OPENING. ALL "BOLT HOLES" IN STEEL SHEET METAL ARE PUNCHED. IN PLATE THEY ARE DRILLED. IN BOTH CASES THEY MAY BE FINISH REAMED. IN NO CASE OF A NEW "FACTORY" PRODUCT ARE THEY "FILE TO FIT". IF THAT IS VAN'S "PROCESS" FOR ALUMINUM SHEET METAL THAT ALONE PROVES THEIR "ENGINEERING" IS SHIT FIRST AND FOREMOST.

How are you doing? Did you ever get your replacement parts from Vans for the LCP issue? Cool idea to use a bounce house. Results look good on the paint.

Awesome bounce house!

No offense but I am betting the holes left from drilling out the part look worse than when the parts were riveted for the first time. I know, I drilled them out because I made mistakes and not because of some fear factor. So when the drilled out holes aren't as good looking as the original pre-work parts, what does that say about the integrity of the finished part.

I've got to say it's really hard watching you take this apart. I know how much work it is to assemble. Good luck with your re-building. Hey, at least you'll have more experience the second time!

Congrats. Still waiting for my call...

Really glad to hear your replacement LCP's are on the way!

Have you gotten your replacement parts yet?

This is 100% vans fault. Don't they do research and development? Test parts before producing and selling them? They have since filed Bankruptcy. Wonder if they made good to the people who spent savings on a kit.

Solid Chapter 11 Dad Joke!

So holes were slightly undersized and cracked when dimpled? I drilled , deburred ,dimpled all 30,000 plus rivets on my 2000 RV-6 and did not have any holes crack from dimpling. Bummer is a understatement for your problem.

Vans aircraft totally screwed all vans builders... chapter 11, inferior overseas parts.. seriously? WTF.. And how many are flying with inferior parts..wanna spend 250M for a possible inferior airplan

Vans chapter 11... inferior quality parts...Jim Bede again....this isn't over

Has anyone considered match drilling everything for the next rivet size up in order to clean up the holes? I doubt I’m the first person to think of it so interested in why not. I wouldn’t think edge distance would be that close but what do I know?

You can either wait for parts or get new ones fabricated yourself.

They need to take the millions of $ in profit, and put it back into the company. It's no longer profit, it is insurance. If they don't, they might as well liquidate.

Gday mate - what is that home-made tool you're using there? What does it do?

I’m so freakin discouraged on this whole mess. If I’d only bought the empennage kit, I would have already switched to a different kit manufacturer. However, my dumbass bought the Emp, wings and fuse all at once so financially I’m just gonna have to wait it out and hope for the best. I’ve got all 3 kits in my garage but because of B/O and laser cut parts, I’ve only got what I need to finish 1 section of the empennage. 😣