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billsettle(at)peoplepc.co
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:10 pm    Post subject: New Builder Reply with quote

Hi Everyone,

I'm a newby with a couple of newby questions for you. I am starting an RV-8 tail kit this month and am trying to collect the tools I think I'll need. I have been looking at the Roper Whitney compound hand rivet squeezer at Aircraft Tool Supply, as well as Cleaveland A/C Tool's "The Main Squeeze". Both are about the same cost. Does anyone have any opinions on them...? Also, can someone recommend a pneumatic squeezer and are they necessary? Any other advice anyone could provide on anything would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bill Settle

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:47 pm    Post subject: New Builder Reply with quote

Bill,,,
Lots of advise is comming I'm sure, and it's all good.
As for me I bought a pheumatic squeezer right off and still don't have a hand squeeze, as of yet I havn't needed the hand tool but I'm thinking about buying one. it has to also fit the same yokes as the standard pheumatic
Welcome to the club
Dan
-8
finishing tail soon,.,
Ssnohomish WA


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I'm a newby with a couple of newby questions for you. I am starting an RV-8 tail kit this month and am trying to collect the tools I think I'll need. I have been looking at the Roper Whitney compound hand rivet squeezer at Aircraft [quote][b]


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:18 pm    Post subject: New Builder Reply with quote

I bought the Avery toolkit and also an Avery pneumatic squeezer (they were on special at the time). I love the pneumatic and use it a lot, but there is still the odd occasion where the hand squeezer allows me easier control. The yokes are interchangeable, I have the quick release pins and the adjustable set holder. Life is easy(-ier) with the right tools!! I just figured that if I'm spending $150k (NZ) then an extra grand or two on decent tools isn't really much in the grand scheme of things...

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Jeff Preou
Hamilton, New Zealand


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Hi Everyone,

I'm a newby with a couple of newby questions for you. I am starting an RV-8 tail kit this month and am trying to collect the tools I think I'll need. I have been looking at the Roper Whitney compound hand rivet squeezer at Aircraft Tool Supply, as well as Cleaveland A/C Tool's "The Main Squeeze". Both are about the same cost. Does anyone have any opinions on them...? Also, can someone recommend a pneumatic squeezer and are they necessary? Any other advice anyone could provide on anything would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bill Settle

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:39 pm    Post subject: New Builder Reply with quote

Bill

Congrats on the start and your ???? I started my 7A 2 years ago this month
(Sept.04 2006). Enjoyed every minute of it ....even the mistakes.......

Now to the tools questions. I do know that my son ( who I build homes with)
said Dad remember it is the tools. He said this as I was trying to decide to
buy the DRDT2 dimpler. I am glad I bought it. Saved time, made perfect
dimples, and was very easy to use. With that said I bought the Avery RV Kit,
pneumatic squeezer from the Tool Yard....4 inch no hole yoke and the
longerone yoke. I do kinda wished I had bought the Cleveland squeezer for
those time when a hand sqeezer makes more sense than the pneumatic. A dremel
is a must. I also have a belt sander, band saw, table saw, and on and on
and on. I feel sometimes like I have kept sears/lowes/home depot/Ace.....in
business. The more tools the better!

At a minimum build Vans practice kit. At a max. go to one of the schools
that will help you finish off your emanage (SP). I did the practice project
and had a good freind with a lot of build experience get me started. He did
give me one excellent piece of advice. "Be Patient". I can tell you every
time I have made a mistake I was pressing forward full speed under the
notion that, "I think this will work". NOT................My advice would
be: Get help with the learning curve, yes, be patient, don't rivet unless
the part is tied down solid, take your time, check out the web pages of the
great builders....Dan Checkoway, Walter Tondu, Sam Buchanan ...plus many
more on the Vans links. Last be not least read the instructions...get
claification where needed, and then measure trice/cut-drill-rivet-etc once.

I am now finishing up the canopy (tip up..a real mans plane canopy ....boy
will this start a discussion), wiring, panel stuff, FWF and .........Well
lets just say it will be done when it is done.

Again welcome, happy building, and I can't wait to read your email advice to
a newby! It will come sooner than you think. Oh ya never ever give up your
dream!

Frank (at) SGU and SLC..........

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Subject: New Builder
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:09:50 -0400 (EDT)


<billsettle(at)peoplepc.com>

Hi Everyone,

I'm a newby with a couple of newby questions for you. I am starting an
RV-8 tail kit this month and am trying to collect the tools I think I'll
need. I have been looking at the Roper Whitney compound hand rivet
squeezer at Aircraft Tool Supply, as well as Cleaveland A/C Tool's "The
Main Squeeze". Both are about the same cost. Does anyone have any
opinions on them...? Also, can someone recommend a pneumatic squeezer and
are they necessary? Any other advice anyone could provide on anything
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bill Settle

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:29 pm    Post subject: New Builder Reply with quote

Bill,
BUY THE ONE FROM CLEVELAND.
Also buy only Cleveland or Avery dies.
I tried all of them and ended up selling the others at the OSH flea market.
Dick Martin
RV8 N233M
the fast one
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:09 pm    Post subject: New Builder Reply with quote

Dan wrote:

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Bill,,,
Lots of advise is comming I'm sure, and it's all good.
As for me I bought a pheumatic squeezer right off and still don't have
a hand squeeze, as of yet I havn't needed the hand tool but I'm
thinking about buying one. it has to also fit the same yokes as the
standard pheumatic
Welcome to the club
Dan
-8
finishing tail soon,.,
Ssnohomish WA

I am finishing the fuselage kit and ready to order the finishing kit for
my RV-7A. Still only have the pneumatic squeezer, bought from Avery,
and don't have a hand squeezer.

Steve Eberhart
RV-7A, canoe flipped and ready to order the finishing kit


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:14 pm    Post subject: New Builder Reply with quote

Bill,
As the slowest RV-8 builder in the world (80002, yep, lots of zeros but
almost done.........no, really) I feel qualified to comment. I would like
to throw in my 2 cents for a pneumatic squeezer. They are not required, a
buddy and I are both building -8's in his shop, but we have commented to
each other that we should have gotten one to save time. You use it and then
can sell it for probably not much less than you paid for it. In riveting 4
wings, 27 ailerons, 11 tail pieces.............okay, I'm exaggerating, but
there were times where you thought you would end up with Popeye forearms.
Now the guys that want you to smelt the kit out of ore will disagree. But
to be totally honest, I bought a bunch of crap that people said I "needed"
to have that I used maybe once (or not at all).
Having a pneumatic squeezer is like having a really great looking wife.
Sure it's not necessary, but in the end, you'll be really happy you had one.
Okay, philosophy was not my major, but it seems right. Bill, have fun with
the kit and build it faster than me (10 years, 4 years of building is a long
time...........my "G" tolerance has gone from over 7 to about 2........

Later,

John
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:12 am    Post subject: New Builder Reply with quote

Welcome aboard, Bill!

Quote:
Also, can someone
recommend a pneumatic squeezer and are they necessary? Any other advice
anyone

Quote:
could provide on anything would be greatly appreciated.

Quote:
Thanks,
Bill Settle

I'm finishing up (whatever that means...) my RV-8. I have an Avery hand
squeezer. I do not have a pneumatic squeezer, and although I've had the
opportunity to use one elsewhere, I don't see the value in owning one. If
I was setting heavy rivets on an assembly line I might see things
differently, but to me they are a waste of resources in the context of
building an RV. The rivets used in building an RV are not hard to squeeze
at all. Whatever effort one expends actually setting rivets by hand is
offset by the effort of lugging the relatively heavy pneumatic squeezer
around.

Just one more data point, and worth precisely what you paid for it-

glen matejcek
aerobubba(at)earthlink.net


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:37 am    Post subject: New Builder Reply with quote

If you have the $, I highly recommend the pneumatic squeezer. It not only speeds the repetitive dimpling / riveting process involved in attaching the larger skins and other components, it also provides consistency with the appearance of the numerous rivets that is difficult to achieve with a hand squeezer.

Got mine (refurbished) from U.S. Industrial Tools and have been completely satisfied with the operation and value received.

And an off track lesson learned from long-ago posts: If you do get one, don’t oil it like you do drills and other tools.
Paul Valovich
Ridgecrest, CA
-8A QB – Interior paint, about to spend big bucks on a motor and avionics
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