[rebel-builders] changes
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:55 pm
Ben,
I've been on that very flight. I was raised here in Alaska. In 1999 I was
living in NV and took the Inside Passage cruise and took the Misty Fjords
floatplane ride in Ketchikan. We landed on the same lake, I got out and
stood on the floats and knew at that moment that I was moving back and that
one day I would be flying a ploat plane here. It was truly a life chnging
moment for me! BTW, I also got sick in the back of the beaver! ha ha
Anyhow, here I am (sort of) on the virge of completing that dream!
Thanks for the reminder. I needed it. Craig Walls
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From: bransom@dcsol.com
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:35:58 -0800
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: [rebel-builders] changes
Recently I think Bob tossed out a question something along the lines of
'what would make the Rebels sell better?' ...hope I've not made that up,
but two things keep coming to my head on the subject.
One, I'm still working on the #$%#@ floor channels (forward cabin) and
admittedly I've had interruptions ....and am almost done. I keep thinking
of the Discovery Channel show "How It's Made", marveling with envy over the
mass production methods for some of their feature items, and I wonder if
they were to do a show on "How Not to make it", the floor channels could be
their debut.
I don't mean to hit this too whiny; I know the numbers aren't there to
improve this much. But ...someday... wouldn't it be nice if this build
section was streamlined. One possibility would be to have instructions for
making wood spacers that would jig all the L tabs and allow for them to be
installed to the bulkheads (or at least holes drilled) while the bulkheads
were still flat on the table. There's a lot of time sunk into getting the
tabs and channels vertical, let alone measuring width placement, not to
mention that the channel holes could/should be prepunched into the skins,
-- hey, even prepunch the tabs ....not to mention one is leaning into the
cabin a bit awkwardly to get to the floor area behind seats.
OK, that sounded farfetched maybe. So number 2 idea is easier: Point them
to stuff like this and even I can do 20k rivets....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U375M_9DMlk
Cheers,
-Ben
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I've been on that very flight. I was raised here in Alaska. In 1999 I was
living in NV and took the Inside Passage cruise and took the Misty Fjords
floatplane ride in Ketchikan. We landed on the same lake, I got out and
stood on the floats and knew at that moment that I was moving back and that
one day I would be flying a ploat plane here. It was truly a life chnging
moment for me! BTW, I also got sick in the back of the beaver! ha ha
Anyhow, here I am (sort of) on the virge of completing that dream!
Thanks for the reminder. I needed it. Craig Walls
Original Message:
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From: bransom@dcsol.com
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:35:58 -0800
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: [rebel-builders] changes
Recently I think Bob tossed out a question something along the lines of
'what would make the Rebels sell better?' ...hope I've not made that up,
but two things keep coming to my head on the subject.
One, I'm still working on the #$%#@ floor channels (forward cabin) and
admittedly I've had interruptions ....and am almost done. I keep thinking
of the Discovery Channel show "How It's Made", marveling with envy over the
mass production methods for some of their feature items, and I wonder if
they were to do a show on "How Not to make it", the floor channels could be
their debut.
I don't mean to hit this too whiny; I know the numbers aren't there to
improve this much. But ...someday... wouldn't it be nice if this build
section was streamlined. One possibility would be to have instructions for
making wood spacers that would jig all the L tabs and allow for them to be
installed to the bulkheads (or at least holes drilled) while the bulkheads
were still flat on the table. There's a lot of time sunk into getting the
tabs and channels vertical, let alone measuring width placement, not to
mention that the channel holes could/should be prepunched into the skins,
-- hey, even prepunch the tabs ....not to mention one is leaning into the
cabin a bit awkwardly to get to the floor area behind seats.
OK, that sounded farfetched maybe. So number 2 idea is easier: Point them
to stuff like this and even I can do 20k rivets....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U375M_9DMlk
Cheers,
-Ben
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