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After ordering my Rebel kit in July 99, I interviewed some local builders to
get some ideas on what tools and equipment were required. After all notes were
taken, I decided to make a simple "equipment needed" spread sheet in Excel to
sort out the best prices available from the best supplier.
Most of these tools were new to my shop, as my previous aircraft building
project required different type of assortment. Here is a list of major tools I
came up with for MY project:
Air Compressor
Pneumatic Blind Riveter (Harbor Freight)
Tape Measurer (12 foot / inches and decimals)
Steel 6 inch Scale (ruler)
X-Acto Hand Saw (fine and medium blades)
X-Acto Knife
Hand Pull Riveters
Pro-Snip or Weiss Cutters (left hand)
Pro-Snip or Weiss Cutters (right hand)
Dremel Tool Kit (various cutters, drum sanders, disks and grinder bits)
Cleco Pliers
Clecos: 400@ 3/32 inch
Clecos: 400@ 1/8 inch
Clecos: 50@ 3/16 inch
Clecos Side Clamp: 6 @ 1/2 inch
Clecos Side Clamp: 6@ 1 inch
90 degree Drill (Tight Fit kit)
SmartTool Sensor Module
Digital Level 24" (SmartTool)
Digital Level 48" (SmartTool)
Rivet Spacing tool
Circle Templates
Good Center Punch (spring loaded)
Edge Marker Block
100 degree countersink cutter (used with Microstop)
Microstop
3/16 inch Reamer
1/4 inch Reamer
Unibit Drill Bit 1/8 ? 1/2 inch
Unibit Drill Bit 1/4 ? 3/4 inch
Drill Stop #40
Drill Stop #30
Drill Stop #11
Pull Rivet Head Dimplers: 3/32
Pull Rivet Head Dimplers: 1/8
Fluting Pliers (plier type)
Fluting Pliers (vice grip type)
Hand Nibbler Tool (Adel)
Metal Stretcher/Shrinker
Edge Rolling Tool (for pre-bending skin edge)
"C" Clamps X inch (small)
"C" Clamps X inch (medium)
"Quick Grip" Clamps
Spring Clamps (various sizes)
Chip Chaser
Circle Fly Cutter
Drill Press
Precision Calipers
Band Saw
Hack Saw
Bench Grinder
Electric Rechargeable Screwdriver (Black & Decker)
Deburr Bit (for above screwdriver)
2-Way Deburring Tool 1/8 inch
2-Way Deburring Tool 3/16 inch
Misc. Drill bits #40, #30, #11inch, (I use Cobolt Jobbers bought by the pack)
Misc. Files (make sure they are GOOD files)
Needle File Set (Ignition files)
10 inch Vixen (push at 40 degree angle to edge of material)
8 inch Mill Bastard
Card File Brush
Electronic Scale
Hand Swaging Tool
Safety Wire Pilers
Scotch-Brite Pads
Rubber Exam Gloves
Basic hand tools, torque wrench etc.
Kitplane Construction Book ? Ron Wanttaja
Firewall Forward Books ? Tony Bingelis
Most Important . . . Duct Tape! =:-)
I know that there is a lot of stuff here, but most will be used for "double
duty" around the house and for other misc. projects. Justification for me . .
.Yes! My philisophy is that if one is going to spend literally "thousands of
dollars" on a kit, the percent spent on good (and proper) tools is relatively
small. That's just me.
When I was building my Long-EZ, I did commerce almost exclusively with
Aircraft
Spruce. Nowadays with the business competition environment and tight money, it
pays (literally) to shop around.
Here are some suppliers I conjured up (I know there are more, but I didn
