Yesterday I started the RV-10 parts replacement review I had been delaying until Vans Aircraft was finished with their engineering assessment. I reviewed the laser cut parts documentation from Vans, re-read the engineering report and the part identification document. That wasn’t a long process but I wanted to be sure that I understood everything they were saying so I would not make mistakes. That whole process was probably an hour.
Today, I actually executed my “retirement plan”. After taking care of my Amazon product sales shipping, I did 30 minutes of alto sax practice, an hour of guitar followed by 45 minutes of piano practice. That put me pretty much at lunch time. Not part of the plan was a whole bowl of jello for lunch.
Then off into the workshop. First thing first, fire up the DVR / video surveillance & live streaming server. This is an older Dell R710 rack mounted server with 3 TB RAID array of SSD drives running the desktop version of Ubuntu 22.04 Linux. It’s a dual Xeon system so it keeps up OK with the processing which comprises 2 of 8 megapixel cameras and 2 of 5 megapixel cameras. They’re set to trigger recording on the smallest movement so I am hoping they capture the whole build process.
The server is running Xeoma surveillance software from Felenasoft. It’s a very powerful piece of software and well laid out, but also quite technically challenging to configure correctly. Xeoma is really a nice user interface that sits on top of ffmpeg, a video and audio encoding and decoding library and binary, plus a few additional modules like built in web server, motion and human detection etc. Go and check it out. It took me a bit to get it started up but once things settle down it should be great.
Well, everything in place, tunes running, I have more than 40GB of my CD’s ripped onto the server, old band PA on, I removed the plastic sheet I had tacked onto the empennage crate from Vans at the beginning of the year and started checking each of the components.
I am going to post some video in here, just for fun, but I want to edit it first so that it doesn’t take too long to play.
In the end, though, it looks like RV-10 parts replacement process has been well organized by Vans. Most of all, it looks to me like I am only going to be needing 6 parts replaced as almost all my parts are blue vinyl coated, meaning they were punched, not laser cut.
My summary then is for the E1020, E1015, E903, E904, E920 and F1014. Needless to say, I have double checked each of the parts just to be certain that I am not missing anything.
Time: 3 hours