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The local EAA chapter (with 20 or so builder/flyers and 20 more
talker/looker's) has decided to purchase tools for loan to chapter
members.
In general, these will be tools that are relatively expensive (and
therefore
scarce to homebuilders), specific use tools such as aircraft scales, a
prop
balancer, a forced air breathing system, etc.

The chapter understands that managing the lending and return of these
tools
will require a significant amount of effort, or the tools will disappear
over time.

That said, help me come up with a list of tools that are likely
candidates
for the chapter's tool warehouse.

Thanks,

KB



52" squaring sheet metal shear -- Tennsmith or Pexto
sheet metal brakes
Kearney swager, also regular swaging tools (long handle and jackscrew)
lathes and mills (and the experts who operate them)
English wheel (also takes an expert)
instrument hole cutter
cable tensiometer
skillful chapter wives with sewing machines for cockpit covers, headliners,
upholstery, and wing envelopes
(Yeah, I'm a chauvinist.)
18' trailer and truck available for hauling the new contraption to the
airport
(plus plenty of strong backs)
HVLP paint system with fresh-air pump
50-gallon barrel BBQ cooker and fridge full o'beer
propane stoves for chili cookoffs and red aprons with "Bitch, Bitch, Bitch!"
embroidered on them
various jacks, cherry-pickers, come-alongs
pancake breakfast equipment (a must have)
A set of good (and accurate) CHT gauges for engine break-in
potato guns and if you're out in the stix, a 50 cal. sniper rifle
sheet metal shrinker and stretcher
reamers
tap and die set
valve spring compressor
ring squeezers
cylinder wrenches
good set of mikes, feelers, and telescoping gauges for measuring cylinder
wear and checking out valves, guides, rocker shafts, ring side play etc.
dial indicators
etcetera