Keeping a builders log

"Lou" wrote in message
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Ok, I've been building my plane for the last 2 years. A wood and fabric
plans built.
I purchased the raw material and milled everything myself. Up until
recently I've
kept a buiders log on everything I have made, built, and glued.
Question. Do I need to log every minute? There are days after days of
cutting very small
pieces and glueing 1,2, and 3 peices at a time, let stand overnight,
and glue 2 pieces again.
There are times that its only 2 minutes. I'm not complaining, I'm
really enjoying the woodworking. But, do I need to log every minute or
is there a better way to log the week?
Lou


No there is no requirement to log every minute. The written part of my log
will be the notes I made on the plans and the construction manual. You are
required to have a photo log as well.

Photo's I have.
Lou

"Lou" wrote in message
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Photo's I have.
Lou


You should be ok then. The purpose of the log as far as the FAA is concerned
is that you did indeed build the thing. There is plenty of my blood splatter
on the inside of the plane to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that I did
the work on mine.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message ...


...There is plenty of my blood splatter on the inside of the plane to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that I did the
work on mine.




So DNA analysis will help also, eh? ;-)

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:48:18 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote:


"Lou" wrote in message
roups.com...
Ok, I've been building my plane for the last 2 years. A wood and fabric
plans built.
I purchased the raw material and milled everything myself. Up until
recently I've
kept a buiders log on everything I have made, built, and glued.
Question. Do I need to log every minute? There are days after days of
cutting very small
pieces and glueing 1,2, and 3 peices at a time, let stand overnight,
and glue 2 pieces again.
There are times that its only 2 minutes. I'm not complaining, I'm
really enjoying the woodworking. But, do I need to log every minute or
is there a better way to log the week?
Lou


No there is no requirement to log every minute. The written part of my log
will be the notes I made on the plans and the construction manual. You are
required to have a photo log as well.

I have one log which is a combination text and photos. The HTML
version is on-line, at home it is in PDF. I keep time to the nearest
hour.

If I have a bunch of short days I combine them, but virtually every
step is photographed in order and in the log with descriptions. I
think this is far more than necessary, but some of the locals do keep
time to the minute. OTOH there are several who do not keep any time,
just worked on this part today and photos of the various stages of
construction.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Roger wrote:



I have one log which is a combination text and photos. The HTML
version is on-line, at home it is in PDF. I keep time to the nearest
hour.

If I have a bunch of short days I combine them, but virtually every
step is photographed in order and in the log with descriptions. I
think this is far more than necessary, but some of the locals do keep
time to the minute. OTOH there are several who do not keep any time,
just worked on this part today and photos of the various stages of
construction.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)


www.rogerhalstead.com


Roger, you might could be a little more specific on that?

You got a lot of stuff there...


Richard

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:38:41 GMT, Richard Lamb
wrote:

Roger wrote:



I have one log which is a combination text and photos. The HTML
version is on-line, at home it is in PDF. I keep time to the nearest
hour.

If I have a bunch of short days I combine them, but virtually every
step is photographed in order and in the log with descriptions. I
think this is far more than necessary, but some of the locals do keep
time to the minute. OTOH there are several who do not keep any time,
just worked on this part today and photos of the various stages of
construction.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)


www.rogerhalstead.com


Roger, you might could be a little more specific on that?

errr... On what? And thanks..I think.
I'd hate to guess how many hours I have just in creating the log:-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

You got a lot of stuff there...


Richard