From: KR-net users group digest[SMTP:kr-net@telelists.com] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 12:20 AM To: kr-net digest recipients Subject: kr-net digest: September 11, 1999 KR-net users group Digest for Saturday, September 11, 1999. 1. RE: flight charactoristics 2. Re: Visit 3. aircraft review and search for comments 4. Re: aircraft review and search for comments 5. Re: Subaru 6. Re: Hand actuated brakes 7. Re: [kr-net]Urethane vs Others 8. RE: flight charactoristics 9. Re: Carb Heat Box for Ellison 10. [Fwd: KR2 Help please?] 11. Re: first flight 12. Golden West EAA Regional Fly-In 13. 98 Gathering video 14. paint weight? 15. Re: aircraft review and search for comments 16. Re: aircraft review and search for comments 17. Re: aircraft review and search for comments 18. Re: Hand actuated brakes 19. Re: [Fwd: KR2 Help please?] 20. KR FAQ list is finally on-line 21. Re: aircraft review and search for comments 22. Progress? & Case Crack 23. Gear Leg pics ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE: flight charactoristics From: "garbez" Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:54:18 -0500 X-Message-Number: 1 KR-Netters, I'm also a low time pilot, 70 hours. I was actually afraid to fly mine for the first time, but it happened by accident and I found the KR-2 to be very easy to fly. The elevator sensitivity I haven't noticed, if you keep your wrist on your lap and fly with your fingers its fine. For landing a KR, (mine is a trigear) you have to really watch your air speed on final, once you get your air speed right it lands great. The only thing I can complain about is my KR came a little heavy, 700 lbs. (by the way she is on a diet and we lost about 20 lbs so its at 680 now), and I put the small VW 1835 in it, with a 52/50 prop and you do notice that performance suffers, I'm getting 500 fpm, and the GPS says 120 mph. but all in all I have never had so much fun in my life. By the way this is going to be my fourth year at the gathering and this time I am bringing my airplane one way or the other, since I can't get my 40 hours flown off in time its coming on a trailer! See you there. Mike Garbez N998MG Griswold, IA msgtlg@netins.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Visit From: Kr2cooper@aol.com Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:15:21 EDT X-Message-Number: 2 Thursday I drove 8+ hours (Round trip) to spend about 4 hours with Don Reid and his KR2XL. I wanted to see first hand some of the modifications he had made as I'm trying to make some decisions about how to build my KR prior to actually starting construction. Don was very accommodating in answering my questions and allowing me to sit in the air plane both in the landing attitude and level flight attitude. One thing I learned is that I don't need to stretch the fuselage as much as he did, I couldn't reach the ruder pedals (He really is 6'8"). I should say that his pedals are adjustable and were set for himself. He would have readjusted them for me but it was not necessary.Don's workmanship is great and his modifications well thought out and engineered. He will have a very nice KR and I hope to see it again at KR Gathering 2000 (My prediction, not Don's) Thanks Don Jack Cooper kr2cooper@aol.com Fayetteville, NC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: aircraft review and search for comments From: kmonson@thequest.net Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:23:2 X-Message-Number: 3 I need some advice from you KR experts! I am looking for an already built aircraft. I have been offered a KR-S2. I need to know if this aircraft will work for me. VW 1835cc 65HP, HAPI Balance Conversion Tuned exhaust, Slick Mags, Elision EFS2 Carb Elect. Elevator Trim I believe the craft is quite sound but not perfect. I’m not a builder but have some excellent A&P help available. I’m not worried about it being a safe aircraft. Here’s my concerns are: I live in North Dakota and need a aircraft that can be operated in zero degree temps (and keep me warm – make that, keep me from not freezing). Also, my wife and I weight 430 lbs. I want to be able to travel together along with a travel bag. Also, I am 6’-2”. Will I fit? The aircraft is located a long ways from me so I don’t want to take a 2,000 mile trip if it’s not practical. Your insight would be appreciated. If any of you are located in ND, MN, SD or MT, and I could visit you, will you please drop me a line. Thank you very much. Ken Monson Kmonson@TheQuest.Net 701-847-3045/Fax 847-2303/RR1 Bx 1G, Reynolds, ND 58275 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: aircraft review and search for comments From: "Mark Langford" Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:39:08 -0500 X-Message-Number: 4 > Ken Monson wrote: > I am looking for an already built aircraft. I have been offered a KR-S2. > I need to know if this aircraft will work for me. First, I doubt that an 1835cc VW would make a satisfactory engine for an S. It just doesn't have enough power. I don't blame him. I'd sell it too. And unless it's VERY light, you can forget you and your wife both flying in it. Gross weight for a KR2S is 980 pounds. Minus 420 for the two of you, and minus 110 pounds for fuel (guessing 18 gallons), and 20 pounds for baggage that would have to be a 430 pound KR2S. I'd be willing to bet that there never has, nor never will be, any such animal. Most come in closer to 600 pounds. It might make an OK single seater for you, but my guess is that it won't be long before you'll be looking for a more powerful engine. You might be better off with a larger airplane....the Vision, for example. Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama mailto:langford@hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Subaru From: "Richard McCall" Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:50:31 -0500 X-Message-Number: 5 I have an EA-82 for SALE for $450. Rich McCall ----- Original Message ----- From: To: KR-net users group Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 3:24 PM Subject: [kr-net] Re: Subaru > I have an EA81 for sale. $500.00 + shipping. Call 915-755-0588 (El Paso Tex) > or E-Mail me. > > --- > You are currently subscribed to kr-net as: planecraft@earthlink.net > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-kr-net-17800J@telelists.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Hand actuated brakes From: Michael Taglieri Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 01:58:11 -0400 X-Message-Number: 6 > At the risk of catching flak from some out there, make the brakes foot >operated. Your hands are busy still flying 'till your off the runway. The >last thing you should be doing is looking and/or feeling for brake handles. > If you are always landing on 5000 ft. strips, fine. But the day will >come when you will want to use a 2000 ft. field, and find your hands are now >more than full. > I normally have less than 1700 ft. of hard surface to land on ( wind >direction/ displaced threshold ), both hands and feet are busy 'till I'm >stopped. Throw in a cross wind yet, and your working . Don't lots of older Pipers have hand-operated brakes? I've never heard them described as unsafe to land. On a 152, the only time I need to use both hands at touchdown is for a touch & go, when I don't use the brakes anyway. If it's a full stop, the throttle is at idle a second or two before touchdown, so there's a hand free for the brake. Of course, if you have a center-mounted stick, you'd put the brake lever somewhere else. Mike Taglieri ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: [kr-net]Urethane vs Others From: Michael Taglieri Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 02:48:36 -0400 X-Message-Number: 7 I read in an old article on the KR (I believe in Popular Mechanics) that he changed the recommendation to urethane because otherwise you could lose the foam structure maintaining the shape of the airfoil because of a leak in a wing tank.. Mike Taglieri On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:37:15 -0700 Ross Youngblood writes: >Ron, > This is nifty information. Ken Rand used Styrofoam on the prototype >KR, but Urethane on the kits. I have used both, and like shaping >Urethane better. However you can't hot-wire Urethane, unless you like >to breathe cyanide gas. > >Ronald R. Eason wrote: >> >> Good info! This info supports that urethane foam is better to use >for >> construction. >> Back in the 1960's in worked as a Research Lab Tech for Butler. >They used >> urethane for their building panels. We tested other foams products >and >> found they were not as good as urethane when it came to aging, >dimension >> stability, thermal, structural properties and etc. We ran all kinds >of >> tests and including structural tensile, torsion and shear, aging and >sun >> exposure. New Urethane foam needs to age or needs post-curing like >epoxy. >> About 120 F for 6 hours will do it. Most distributors have >post-cured the >> foam by default. You can identify green unrethane foam because it >sponge >> and rubbery relative to aged urethane. >> Ken Rand must have known this because he chose urethane. >> >> KRRon >> >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Ronald R. Eason Sr. >> C.E.O., President >> J.R.L. 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Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE: flight charactoristics From: cartera Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:09:21 -0600 X-Message-Number: 8 garbez wrote: > > KR-Netters, > I'm also a low time pilot, 70 hours. I was actually afraid to fly mine for > the first time, but it happened by accident and I found the KR-2 to be very > easy to fly. The elevator sensitivity I haven't noticed, if you keep your > wrist on your lap and fly with your fingers its fine. For landing a KR, > (mine is a trigear) you have to really watch your air speed on final, once > you get your air speed right it lands great. The only thing I can complain > about is my KR came a little heavy, 700 lbs. (by the way she is on a diet > and we lost about 20 lbs so its at 680 now), and I put the small VW 1835 in > it, with a 52/50 prop and you do notice that performance suffers, I'm > getting 500 fpm, and the GPS says 120 mph. but all in all I have never had > so much fun in my life. By the way this is going to be my fourth year at > the gathering and this time I am bringing my airplane one way or the other, > since I can't get my 40 hours flown off in time its coming on a trailer! > See you there. > > Mike Garbez N998MG > Griswold, IA > msgtlg@netins.net > > --- > You are currently subscribed to kr-net as: cartera@cuug.ab.ca > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-kr-net-17800J@telelists.com Hi Mike, Well there you are goes to show with the time you have, it doesn't mean a dam thing if one watches what you are doing. It looks like your attitude is on the right track and now you can fine tune yourself and the aircraft. As time goes along I am sure that you will find things you can do to lighten things. "CONGRATULATIONS" this is the type of report I like to read, I am sure you are embarking any many hours of enjoyable flying. Take Care and Happy Flying! -- Adrian VE6AFY Mailto:cartera@cuug.ab.ca http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~cartera ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Carb Heat Box for Ellison From: Ross Youngblood Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:07:43 -0700 X-Message-Number: 9 Mike, That would be great! I need to run out to the airport and scan the drawings I have. -- Ross Mike Mims wrote: > > Ross Youngblood wrote: > > > > Bob, > > > > The manual for the EFS-2 has the bolt pattern for the carb flange. > > They even have a recommended design, which of course takes up too > > much room for me. However, I recently re-did my cowling. > > Hey if you guys want Haris or I can take a few pics of the Elisons (and > air boxes) on the Dragonflies at our hanger. They both work > exceptionally well. > > -- > zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz > Micheal Mims > Building New Gear Legs > http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/anchor/270/ > http://members.home.com/mikemims/ > Aliso Viejo CA > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > --- > You are currently subscribed to kr-net as: rossy@teleport.com > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-kr-net-17800J@telelists.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [Fwd: KR2 Help please?] From: Ross Youngblood Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:10:20 -0700 X-Message-Number: 10 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------279C4B96608D6724015FC21A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone help Britt out? -- Thanks Ross --------------279C4B96608D6724015FC21A Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: by mail2 (mbox rossy) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Sat Sep 11 16:03:33 1999) X-From_: b737thurman@icqmail.com Sat Sep 11 05:25:48 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: rossy@teleport.com Received: (qmail 1097 invoked from network); 11 Sep 1999 05:25:46 -0000 Received: from c005-h005.c005.sfo.cp.net (HELO c005.sfo.cp.net) (209.228.13.61) by smtp6.teleport.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 1999 05:25:46 -0000 Received: (cpmta 9288 invoked from network); 10 Sep 1999 22:25:34 -0700 Date: 10 Sep 1999 22:25:34 -0700 Message-ID: <19990911052534.9287.cpmta@c005.sfo.cp.net> X-Sent: 11 Sep 1999 05:25:34 GMT Received: from [209.206.0.203] by mail.icqmail.com with HTTP; 10 Sep 1999 22:25:34 PDT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 To: rossy@teleport.com From: Britten Thurman X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.1 Subject: KR2 Help please? X-Icq: 4787940 Dear Mr. Youngbloods: I've signed up, but not heard back bout KRNET membership yet. I need to post a question quickly. Do you know of any member\builder\A&P\A&I in the Seattle area that could go look at a KR2S that I am thinking about buying? I just built a hanger and would like to build one, but I'm looking to buy cause I want to fly over the years I'm building!!! I had a Grumman Cheetah and it ate me out of house and home! I live in Austin Texas and would need to have someone lined up in Seattle to go look at the aircraft with me. I'm a high time pilot, but no experience buying a home built. This KR is out of annual. I'm looking for an A&P that could annual it OR if no such animal exist in that area a builder that could go with me that knows what to look for. Do you know of anybody that can help me. It's a long trip from Austin to Seattle. If I weren't serious I wouldn't be looking for someone to meet me up there. I EXPECT to pay whoever for their time. If an A&P I'm willing to pay the price to have them annual it at their shop. If I can't find an A&P I will have to ship it home and that will cost as much or more than the annual. Sorry to take up your time like this when you don't know me, but if you could post this or let me know something I would be very grateful! Thanks Britt Thurman PMB 223 100 E. Whitestone Blvd. #148 Cedar Park, Texas 78613-6902 (512) 917-2738 b737thurman@icqmail.com (I fly for Southwest Airlines) ------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html --------------279C4B96608D6724015FC21A-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: first flight From: "JEAN" Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:41:21 -0500 X-Message-Number: 11 John Shaffer flew his new KR-2 ( stretched and widened ) today. He trucked it down from Ohio 4 weeks ago to finish it up in our hangar and do his first flight where his original KR first flew. Dan Diehl videoed this one just like his first flight. Those old time KR people will remember John as the one who set the record for spins in a KR and living ( after a lengthy hospital stay ). John is a great guy and it was good to see him back in a KR. Jean N4DD Broken Arrow, OK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Golden West EAA Regional Fly-In From: Ross Youngblood Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:02:34 -0700 X-Message-Number: 12 Sept 10-12 It turns out there is an informal KR Gathering this weekend in Atwater, CA. Go to the Rand Robinson Site http://www.fly-kr.com to find out more. Anyone with pictures/stories... pass it on! -- Ross ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 98 Gathering video From: "Mark Langford" Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:07:53 -0500 X-Message-Number: 13 KRNetHeads, I just finished watching Video Bob's 1998 KR Gathering video. I guess this means they're now shipping (KRSaintHood has its benefits). It's nothing short of awesome! Video of all the KR's there, interviews with the builders and pilots, lots of flybys (don't show this to the FAA), and some really nice formation flying with Jeff Scott and Jim Faughn. We even get to sing along with Jim in "The KR Song" (or was that "I hate sanding"?). If you need a little inspiration (and even if you don't) you NEED this video. Info is available on my web site, but since I know some of you are lazy, I pasted it below... -------------------------------- The 1998 KR Gathering is now available from Omega Productions for $25.00 from: Bob Vermeulen Omega Productions 304 Cedar St, NE Grand Rapids, MI 49503 Or you can call at (616)774-3913. Bob accepts check, MC, and Visa. -------------------------------- Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama mailto:langford@hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: paint weight? From: "Mark Langford" Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:14:29 -0500 X-Message-Number: 14 Anybody have any numbers on how much painting their plane added to the weight? I'm starting to think about weight and balance calculations, since I'll have my wings done soon. Before I take them off I can do a little rough guestimate as to engine mount length with the Corvair. I carbon fibered one wing last weekend, except for one lower panel, which I'll have done shortly. Web page update is in the works... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama mailto:langford@hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: aircraft review and search for comments From: Mike Mims Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 19:18:00 -0700 X-Message-Number: 15 Mark Langford wrote: > > You might be better off with a larger airplane....the Vision, for example.>> >> If you really need an already built airplane and have A&Ps at your disposal I say a C-107B would be a good choice or a Piper Cherokee. Yes I am serious. -- zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Micheal Mims Building New Gear Legs http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/anchor/270/ http://members.home.com/mikemims/ Aliso Viejo CA ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: aircraft review and search for comments From: "Mark Langford" Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:29:48 -0500 X-Message-Number: 16 Mike Mims wrote: > If you really need an already built airplane and have A&Ps at your > disposal I say a C-107B would be a good choice or a Piper Cherokee. > Yes I am serious. You're probably going to have to tell us amateurs exactly what a C-107B is... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama mailto:langford@hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: aircraft review and search for comments From: Steven Eberhart Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 22:05:55 -0500 (CDT) X-Message-Number: 17 On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Mark Langford wrote: > Mike Mims wrote: > > > If you really need an already built airplane and have A&Ps at your > > disposal I say a C-107B would be a good choice or a Piper Cherokee. > > Yes I am serious. > > You're probably going to have to tell us amateurs exactly what a C-107B > is... > If you meant C-170B then we are on about the same wave length. Have started following them in Trade a Plane. Steve Eberhart mailto:newtech@newtech.com THE WING FLIES! - http://www.newtech.com/nlf for info on the new, flight tested, KRnet/UIUC airfoils. Good job KRnet, you can be proud of your contribution to Sport Aviation. Special thanks to Dr. Ashok Gopalarathnam and Dr. Michael Selig for some great Sport Aviation airfoils. One test is worth a thousand expert opinions but a thousand opinions are easier to get. --plagiarized from an unknown author All information, in any of my aircraft related correspondence, is strictly food for thought requiring additional, qualified, engineering analysis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Hand actuated brakes From: jscott.pilot@juno.com Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:15:08 -0700 X-Message-Number: 18 On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 01:58:11 -0400 Michael Taglieri writes: > > Don't lots of older Pipers have hand-operated brakes? I've never > heard them described as unsafe to land. On a 152, the only time I > need to use both hands at touchdown is for a touch & go, when I > don't use the brakes anyway. If it's a full stop, the throttle is > at idle a second or two before touchdown, so there's a hand free for > the brake. Of course, if you have a center-mounted stick, you'd put > the brake lever somewhere else. > > Mike Taglieri > Mike, Your C-152 experience is no doubt valuable, but please try to keep in mind that the C-152 is designed as a basic trainer that only slightly resembles the fun toys you can actually play with that do require some finesse to fly. The original question was about a set of small finger operated brakes, which is exactly what my original answer was to. As I stated before, A friend of mine had them in his Hummelbird and they cost him substantial damage to his plane while landing in unfavorable wind conditions. He switched to hydraulic heel brakes and has flown the same plane another 600 hours since without any problems. I don't know how this would be misinterpreted to imply that the hand operated brakes on a Piper are dangerous unless you don't understand the difference. Only older Pipers with TRICYCLE gear had hand brakes as there was NO need for differentail due to the fine nosewheel steering built into these planes. Even Piper had enough sense to put foot operated brakes in every taildreagger application where differential braking was needed. Some of the older ones like the Cubs are hydraulic heel brakes, some of the newer ones are toe brakes. When you convert a PA-22 (TriPacer) to a PA-20 (Pacer), one of the mods you do is to toss the handbrake and install toe brakes so you have differentail braking. The only taildragger I have flown with a hand operated brake is the stock military DeHaviland Chipmunk. It also had valving tied into the rudder bar so you could get differentail braking by swinging the rudder bar while tugging on the brake handle with your left hand. In less than favorable wind conditions, it could be quite a handfull with that arrangement. Jeff Scott - Los Alamos, NM mailto:jscott.pilot@juno.com See N1213w construction and first flight at http://www.thuntek.net/~jeb/krjeff.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: [Fwd: KR2 Help please?] From: "R.W. Moore" Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 22:58:00 -0400 X-Message-Number: 19 Does any one have a 92 set of heads with the new style spark plug holes drilled and taped. Not the one that has the tube and the spark plug wires under the valve cover for sale that a poor person could buy. R. W. Moore N115RM ----- Original Message ----- From: Ross Youngblood To: KR-net users group Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 7:10 PM Subject: [kr-net] [Fwd: KR2 Help please?] > Can anyone help Britt out? > > -- Thanks > Ross ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: KR FAQ list is finally on-line From: Ross Youngblood Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:36:34 -0700 X-Message-Number: 20 I got an updated web editor, so started playing with our krnet.org web site. I FINALLY got around to ftping up the FAQ.html list that John Bryhan sent me last November. Just click on the previously broken FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS link at http://www.krnet.org -- Ross ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: aircraft review and search for comments From: Mike Mims Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 22:13:42 -0700 X-Message-Number: 21 Mark Langford wrote: > > You're probably going to have to tell us amateurs exactly what a C-107B > is... > Its those darn epoxy fumes!!!! I meant a C-170B. -- zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Micheal Mims Building New Gear Legs http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/anchor/270/ http://members.home.com/mikemims/ Aliso Viejo CA ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Progress? & Case Crack From: Mike Mims Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 22:55:15 -0700 X-Message-Number: 22 Well sports fans I met up with Haris at the airport today and we both were busy bees on our projects. I finished up the layups on the gear legs, made all the counter balance weights for the controls (we had the foundry going full steam!), and started building the attach bracket to mount the engine cowling. As I was building he cowling bracket I told Haris it was the bracket of all brackets and everyone will want one just like it. He dubbed it the "Mother of All Brackets" for some reason. Engine oil leak update, last week I posted that my friend Brad was having trouble finding an oil leak on his Revmaster that has over 800 hours on it. Well today he found it!! He removed the oil cooler (mounts on top of engine like a stock one but on its side) and bypassed that circuit with a hose then fired it up. Well the engine case was cracked right in the area where the oil cooler bolts up. The crack was on the flat area about half way from the oil holes and the case halves and the crack was about an inch long from front to rear. After looking at our extra set of cases it appears the center main bearing web may have started to break and that is what caused the crack in the case. Anyone out there familiar with this sort of breakage? Just curious if this was a common place for VW cases to crack? I will let Haris update you on his mile stone accomplishment of the day. -- zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Micheal Mims Building New Gear Legs http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/anchor/270/ http://members.home.com/mikemims/ Aliso Viejo CA ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Gear Leg pics From: Mike Mims Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 23:25:29 -0700 X-Message-Number: 23 Web page update. I put some pics of the gear legs at: http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/anchor/270/gear.html go to the bottom. -- zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Micheal Mims Building New Gear Legs http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/anchor/270/ http://members.home.com/mikemims/ Aliso Viejo CA ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --- END OF DIGEST --- You are currently subscribed to kr-net as: johnbou@timberline.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-kr-net-17800J@telelists.com