Intro

This is the "official" build log of my RV-12.  

Tail kit ordered Tuesday, June 13, 2017 and was shipped via Old Dominion on Tuesday, June 20, 2017.  Van's seems to prefer OD for shipments out here to NJ.  That's fine, but OD seems to do pickups on Tuesdays.  This isn't UPS and delivery time from Oregon to New Jersey takes about 7-8 days.

Unfortunately, as I later found out, I made the mistake of giving my home address for delivery.  When OD called to set up a delivery appointment, I asked if I could have it delivered at the airport hangar instead.  Even though it's only 5 miles from my house, I had to fill out a re-consignment form along with an $80 charge.  Ooops.  Though not all my fault, at the time of ordering I didn't yet have the hangar in my name.  Luckily,  Vans requests a lift-gate truck as I forgot to mention I needed one for the airport delivery.

While I wait for delivery, I'm building two work tables based on EAA Chapter 1000's Standardized Worktables.  You can find the materials and instructions here.  It's an absolutely overkill sturdy design.  Later, I'll find out that it would have been nice to have a 1" overhang on the table top.. its very difficult to clamp things to the tabletop when there is no overhang.

I also ended up building a workbench based on the design from here.  This too came out nice, but I should have selected a better, sanded wood for the work surface (I cheaped out).  At this point, I was cutting my 2x4's with a jigsaw.  It's horribly impossible to make straight cuts with it, so I ended up cleaning up the cuts with my band saw.

I also ordered nearly ALL (sans Carb Sync tool) the RV-12 tools as listed by Van's.  I ended up buying most items from Brown Aviation Tool Supply Co and from Aircraft Tool Supply.  I selected the items from whomever had the lower price.  

The only straggler items were the torque wrench (I had one, but it wasn't accurate at the low torque measurements) which I bought from Sears for $90, the PRP-26A pop riveter ($75 used on e-bay), and a couple odds and ends from Amazon.