Scott's RV-14 Build

Recovering from broken dimple dies

Called Cleaveland today and spoke with Annette about my dimple issues. She was super helpful. Much to my surprise she's shipping me brand new 3/32 dimple dies and a C-frame retrofit kit to alleviate the play in the lower mounting point for the bottom die...free of charge...with expedited shipping and an apology for delaying my build! I just have to send back the old parts. Needless to say I was stunned by the awesome customer service. The dies alone are over $40. I also bought some extra clamps, butcher paper, a hard plastic mallet to use on C-frame instead of ball peen hammer, nitrile gloves, mineral spirits and a quart can of SEM self etching primer. I spent $22 extra to get that primer here by Friday off Amazon cause I hate delaying my build further waiting on parts. My plan is to rattle-can primer the ribs and spars and use a foam brush along the fay surfaces inside the skins. In an effort to save weight I'm not going to prime all the internal skins on the tail surfaces. We'll see how that goes. I also ordered the other daysome additional maroon scotchbrite pads and a mini-mandrel for my drill to hold pads for scouring internal surfaces.

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