Sheet metal work is beautiful my friend! I’m an avionics tech by trade and remember testing out for my a&p all I had to do was make a simple battery bracket and let me tell you during the test it was my first time bending metal and it kicked my butt. What you have accomplished so far has me in completely impressed.
I’ve certainly learned a lot! I’m a bit worried to uncover my tail surfaces in a bit here and find that my lack of experience is evident. I’ve heard of people buying a new tail kit and redoing it because of same. Thank you very much for the meaningful complement. Coming from an A&P is huge!
@@kevinpereira7864 I have backordered parts for my tail and wing kit. Both ordered on Halloween. Tail showed up on Thanksgiving, wings in early March. Both were missing bags containing rod-end bearings and powder-coated brackets (aileron, rudder, and elevators). Not sure if they are waiting on the elevator service bulletin to get the newest parts out or what, although I know the rod-end bearings are on backorder from everywhere. Aircraft Spruce shows those as back in stock around April 11th so I'm hopeful I'll get them in soon!
Awesome build and videos! You're flying along (pun intended, lol)! Now I'm kinda tempted to add the 8 to my wishful dream garage builds along with the 15. I'm not sure my bank account is going to like any of that tho.
Figuratively flying for now, literally flying soon enough! You must have a mighty bank account to contemplate two builds. And a heck of an appetite for building!! Thanks for the kind words! Stay in touch!
Great video Ryan! Great editing, great music and impressive some of the shots you were able to get (like the tungsten bucking bar inside the aileron). I hope this series takes off. One question: I love the intermissions with the tips on how to do certain skills or tricky spots in the plans. Have you covered rivet gun setup yet? (I.e. what compressor you got, what the pressure is on the regulator, what the regulator is set to on the gun if you’ve got one, etc) I haven’t bought a pneumatic squeezer yet and I’d be curious how you set that up too - do you have the one with the adjustable ram or do you use different length sets and shims?
All great questions! Since there’s interest, I’ll gladly include some of these things in the videos. I try to balance helpful spots with progress and never know what people want: see the plane together quickly, or hear about some of the work. Let’s see if I can include some more helpful info, but try to keep it snappy!
I have a light little Ryobi jobber. The kind used around the house. Thought about it. But I kinda like zoning out with the z-bent hand powered. It’s pretty quick too.
Ryan, Are you using a 3x rivet gun only or do you also have a 2x? Really liking these videos. Keep up the nice work. I hit the like button before I even watch the video because I know I am going to like it.
3x only. It’ll make quick work of a -3 rivet, and have to monitor the pressure or you can do some damage. Works well for -4 with a bit more PSI. And thank you for the compliment! Awesome feedback!
I believe all the metals are friendly-hardware is cadmium plated, rivets and skin are both aluminum, and while lead and aluminum aren’t best friends, we have primer between the two. I haven’t heard of any issues in this area, I think because of the listed compatibilities and protection.
That’s a great question. I’ll answer the easy part first: yes, you can see it coming from a mile away. Once you start with the “I just need to finish this and then I’ll quit,” that’s when you quit. Before you finish it. Not after. If you’re trying to rush to “get it done,” don’t. Small mistakes, dumb mistakes, often precede large ones. Now for the hard part. I’ve had days where I’ve had to put it down after an hour. Things aren’t going well, and I’m not in the mindset. Some days, I’ll be at it for 10+. I think most long build days start to see significantly reduced craftsmanship and productivity after about 6-8 hours. But like I said. You can absolutely tell when it’s time to put it down. And you get pretty good at doing just that.
Not sure specifically which ones you’re referencing, but I’ve accumulated myriad specialty tools for the project. I’m still hopeful I’ll be able to produce some quick videos on my favorites at some point.
Good job Ryan. I love the new camera angles. Makes you feel your there when you watch it.
Thank you, Michael! Got to keep it interesting!
Only wish my cameras were better at close in-both are horrible at tight shots.
Sheet metal work is beautiful my friend! I’m an avionics tech by trade and remember testing out for my a&p all I had to do was make a simple battery bracket and let me tell you during the test it was my first time bending metal and it kicked my butt. What you have accomplished so far has me in completely impressed.
I’ve certainly learned a lot! I’m a bit worried to uncover my tail surfaces in a bit here and find that my lack of experience is evident.
I’ve heard of people buying a new tail kit and redoing it because of same.
Thank you very much for the meaningful complement. Coming from an A&P is huge!
Come for the build, stay for the music… and the build
I have to dig a little deeper in the audio library each video. 😂
@@RyanFlysPDX there's a whole polka genre being under represented here
Looks great! Can’t believe we are nearly finished with our wings!
Quicker than I thought! Though I’m scared to speak too soon and wind up in some sort of control linkage purgatory.
@@RyanFlysPDX do you have wing parts on back order as well?
Nope. I have some backordered parts for the fuselage at vans waiting for me to pick them up. I’ll be over there next week. I think related to brakes.
@@kevinpereira7864 I have backordered parts for my tail and wing kit. Both ordered on Halloween. Tail showed up on Thanksgiving, wings in early March. Both were missing bags containing rod-end bearings and powder-coated brackets (aileron, rudder, and elevators). Not sure if they are waiting on the elevator service bulletin to get the newest parts out or what, although I know the rod-end bearings are on backorder from everywhere. Aircraft Spruce shows those as back in stock around April 11th so I'm hopeful I'll get them in soon!
@@cbkillion same stuff I’m missing!
Always great videos. Really appreciate the tips! Bucking bar padding. Angle jig. Need to start my list !
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback!
Factory looking job.
As long as you close one eye and stand 10 feet back! 😉
Thank you, I appreciate the feedback!
I have a factory Cessna (from1959, when they were made much this way), and this is better than factory. By a mile.
Looking good -- back riveting is so satisfying!
“I wish I could back rivet the entire plane.” -Ryan Moss
Beautiful job! Thanks for all the great tips!
Awesome build and videos! You're flying along (pun intended, lol)!
Now I'm kinda tempted to add the 8 to my wishful dream garage builds along with the 15. I'm not sure my bank account is going to like any of that tho.
Figuratively flying for now, literally flying soon enough!
You must have a mighty bank account to contemplate two builds. And a heck of an appetite for building!!
Thanks for the kind words! Stay in touch!
@Ryan Flys Sadly, my bank account can't handle any big projects at the moment, let alone an aircraft build. That 15 sure is tempting tho.
Love how this channel is growing!! Great video.
I love the support and feedback!!
Really enjoying following your build. Keep the videos coming!
Thank you for the comment! They help keep me going!!
Great video Ryan! Great editing, great music and impressive some of the shots you were able to get (like the tungsten bucking bar inside the aileron). I hope this series takes off. One question: I love the intermissions with the tips on how to do certain skills or tricky spots in the plans. Have you covered rivet gun setup yet? (I.e. what compressor you got, what the pressure is on the regulator, what the regulator is set to on the gun if you’ve got one, etc) I haven’t bought a pneumatic squeezer yet and I’d be curious how you set that up too - do you have the one with the adjustable ram or do you use different length sets and shims?
All great questions! Since there’s interest, I’ll gladly include some of these things in the videos.
I try to balance helpful spots with progress and never know what people want: see the plane together quickly, or hear about some of the work.
Let’s see if I can include some more helpful info, but try to keep it snappy!
Really nice work. Any thought to a cheap screw gun to debur holes? Unless you are working on your tennis wrist.
I have a light little Ryobi jobber. The kind used around the house. Thought about it. But I kinda like zoning out with the z-bent hand powered. It’s pretty quick too.
Ryan, Are you using a 3x rivet gun only or do you also have a 2x? Really liking these videos. Keep up the nice work. I hit the like button before I even watch the video because I know I am going to like it.
3x only. It’ll make quick work of a -3 rivet, and have to monitor the pressure or you can do some damage. Works well for -4 with a bit more PSI.
And thank you for the compliment! Awesome feedback!
Any concerns with gavanic corrosion when mixing metals between the skin, rivets, and counterweight?
I believe all the metals are friendly-hardware is cadmium plated, rivets and skin are both aluminum, and while lead and aluminum aren’t best friends, we have primer between the two.
I haven’t heard of any issues in this area, I think because of the listed compatibilities and protection.
Ryan, wondering how many hours you can work before your work suffers, and do you see it coming ?
That’s a great question.
I’ll answer the easy part first: yes, you can see it coming from a mile away. Once you start with the “I just need to finish this and then I’ll quit,” that’s when you quit. Before you finish it. Not after. If you’re trying to rush to “get it done,” don’t.
Small mistakes, dumb mistakes, often precede large ones.
Now for the hard part. I’ve had days where I’ve had to put it down after an hour. Things aren’t going well, and I’m not in the mindset.
Some days, I’ll be at it for 10+.
I think most long build days start to see significantly reduced craftsmanship and productivity after about 6-8 hours.
But like I said. You can absolutely tell when it’s time to put it down. And you get pretty good at doing just that.
@@RyanFlysPDX Thanks, I tend to press more than I should , when I start mine I will try to heed your advice, And yours looks perfect on my iPad
Then keep watching on the iPad. Or better yet your phone!
It’s far from perfect, but it’s coming out very well and I’m happy with most aspects of it.
Hi mate; what are all these tools you are using
Not sure specifically which ones you’re referencing, but I’ve accumulated myriad specialty tools for the project. I’m still hopeful I’ll be able to produce some quick videos on my favorites at some point.
Enjoyed the build. I wear a headset and found the music too loud and honestly, distracting.
Good to know! I’ll be mindful-I know some tracks I’ve picked have been pretty wild…
When you said ailerons at the beginning, it gave me these vibes lol:
ruclips.net/video/TiC8pig6PGE/видео.html
Also great work!
Ha. Oh man. I might have to reshoot my flaps introduction.