Joe Ruscito's Kitfox S7 Build

[efwd]

That's great Joe. Welcome aboard.

[airlina]

Joe , you have the right attitude going in, enjoy the process as much as the result, you are embarking on a fun journey. Bruce N199CL

[Meyer]

I get my kit in about 6 weeks. We will have to compare notes. Good luck!!!

[jmodguy]

6 weeks? Crap that’s pretty soon!

[Bryan]

Welcome aboard Joe. You will love it. These are great kits and the build is so much fun. Enjoy every minute of it and the forum is sooo much help. Keep the excitement going.

[Frontier Fox]

Hey Joe
Good to see another Kitfox build in the works. I started in October and am having a blast. It is so fun to see things start to take shape.

[aviator79]

Welcome to the fun part, Joe! I look forward to following your progress.

[Flyboy66]

Here are some things to acquire if you don’t already have them.

If you bought the tool kit from Kitfox, I would get an extra #30 and #40 drill bit (12 inch)

Amazon- 60 cc syringes (15 to 20)

Ace Hardware/Home Depot- 2 gallons denatured alcohol (cleanup of Hysol)

Harbor Freight- spring clips (to hold ribs and other stuff in place 10 small and 10 medium)

Amazon extra #30 and #40 drill bits (10 each- regular length)

Amazon- food scale. One that will do grams. Sometimes Hysol is needed in small quantities and a scale that does ounces isn’t precise enough in my opinion.

A couple hundred Dixie cups (small and not wax coated)

Amazon. Hose clamps to fit a 3” hose (for holding the lift strut brackets in spar while setting sweep, dihedral and washout) 4 of these.

Extra clecos. 20. For the #30 holes.

Order extra rivets from Kitfox. Feel free to message me and I will tell you which ones and how many. You will probably have to drill out a few rivets because they didn’t seat properly.

Aircraft spruce- AN3-4, AN3-5 bolts and the nylock nuts to fit them (20 or so of each). AN960-10, and AN960-10L washers. 50 of each. They are used for everything and it is nice to have extra hardware. Spruce charges about 8 bucks or more for shipping even for smaller orders so get a list together when you need stuff and order it all at the same time.

There are other things, but I can’t remember them right now.

Steve