From: "KR-net users group digest" To: "kr-net digest recipients" Subject: kr-net digest: January 15, 2000 Date: Sunday, January 16, 2000 12:29 AM KR-NET Digest2 for Saturday, January 15, 2000. 1. Re: Newcomer with questions 2. Re: canopy latching 3. Boat for Sale 4. Re: Corvair Engine 5. Re: KR Simulation with MS Flight Sim 2000 Disappointing 6. Re: Boat for Sale 7. Re: elevator hinges 8. Engine Timing 9. spinner question 10. Re: Boat for Sale 11. Paint removal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Newcomer with questions From: SkyHawk11@aol.com Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 07:47:03 EST X-Message-Number: 1 4TH type is the person who talks about the plane he is building and spends lots of hours doing just that . This is one that has been on the project 5-6 years and still only has the frame work started. We have just such a person in our group. He buys a project and works on it for a year or 2 and then sells it to buy another project to work on. Never finishes one ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: canopy latching From: "Ken Jordan" Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 5:20:5 X-Message-Number: 2 Mac, I just forwarded some info I learned from a 'safety' expert who gave a talk at my local EAA chapter, or maybe at Oshkosh. His talk was about a handy toolkit for emergency situations. You know, the obligatory 'space' blanket, candle, matches, etc. Someone asked specifically about a rollover and he recommended a heavy screwdriver or awl to punch thru the canopy. KR canopies are rather thin. Regards, Ken J ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Boat for Sale From: AviationMech@aol.com Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:15:20 EST X-Message-Number: 3 For sale KR2 boat. Built per plans about 6 or so years ago. Built up using birch Ply. It sits on Diehl gear, has matco wheels and brakes with Lamb tires. Aileron control system featuring push pull rods. Electric flap motor. Rand Robinson manual dated May 1986. The quality of this boat is average. It has weathered well in storage. Tail feather construction started. With 500 voices on the Net perhaps someone can send a buyer my way. My KR 2 N110LR, work and other issues don't leave me enough time for a second project. N110LR has been flying since '84' and provides much tinker time. Re: Adhesive Removal. 3M markets an excellent remover ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Corvair Engine From: Seibert Family Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 13:02:10 -0800 X-Message-Number: 4 Dennis I don't know any one who has a corvair on a flying KR. For more info on the conversion process contact William Wynne "The Corvair Authority" (500) 677-3794 (904)451-3676 www.omnispace.com/Corvair/ Also check the various home pages of KR Netters since some have pictures of the engine William had at the last Gathering in Kentucky. Carroll Seibert carann@epix.net DThomas773@aol.com wrote: > Does anyone have a corvair engine flying in a KR2?( or KR2s). I read on the > posting about folks building them but are there any completed success > stories? Are there any conversion plans available, for those of us not > gifted or trained in that area? > KR2 Builder Wanna Be. > > Dennis Thomas > > --- > You are currently subscribed to kr-net as: carann@epix.net > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-kr-net-86178L@telelists.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: KR Simulation with MS Flight Sim 2000 Disappointing From: Seibert Family Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 12:54:13 -0800 X-Message-Number: 5 Walt Flight Simulator 2000 doesnot have a flight dynamics editor nor can you design or modify aircraft directly in FS2000 nor FS98 nor FS95 for that matter. BUT there is software available to accomplish both tasks. I am learning"Aircraft Factory 99" by building a model of the KR2. I hope to extend my "designs" once I get the first one up and running. There is another piece of software called "Flight Dynamics Editor" available for download on the net. An excellant tutorial for "FDE" was written by Rabbijah Guder and is also available on the net. I hadn't posted any thing on my efforts because I just got started. I hope to get some pretty accurate models of the various KR2 and KR2S built and make them available to the folks on the KRNET. If you would like to persue this farther e-mail me direct and I will share what I know. Carroll Seibert carann@epix.net Walter Lounsbery wrote: > ...and that's about it in a nutshell. I heard that Microsoft Flight > Simulator 2000 Pro had a flight dynamics editor and an aircraft editor. So > I sent off to Egghead to get the software for a quick, sophisticated KR > simulation. Unfortunately, the flight performance and dynamics are all set > by about ten sliders on a small form! Not exactly the way to enter those > moments of inertia and so forth. I don't see how to configure the engine at > all. The rest of the product is great, but don't look for a technical > simulation. Maybe I'll have to fire up the old FORTRAN compiler someday and > make a real simulation we can all play with in a technical way. > > Walt Lounsbery > > --- > You are currently subscribed to kr-net as: carann@epix.net > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-kr-net-86178L@telelists.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Boat for Sale From: TRyker9649@aol.com Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:50:32 EST X-Message-Number: 6 kr2 boat for sale in orlando, fl. For info contact Terry at 904-291-4529 or e-mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: elevator hinges From: Bobby Muse Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 09:47:45 -0600 X-Message-Number: 7 At 11:48 PM 01/13/2000, you wrote: >- In order to get the bolts inserted into the hinges, you must cut small >amount of material away along the bottom of the leading edge of the >thanks bobby >i think i have figured it out.what was confusing me was drawing #48 shows >the radius of the elev. leading as starting from the spar! when you rotate >the elev. up 30 deg. from the hinge line the elev. hits the stab. aft edge, >but if you draw your radius from the hinge line it rotates around the hinge >line and doesn't hit the stab.aft edge. i saw this by referring to an >article in the kr newsletter of 9/89. am i thinking right? >did you glass your stab and elev seperately? how did you glass the stab. >aft edge and did you remove the hinges to sand the foam to contour and then >remount the hinges? could you reverse the bolt heads and fix them to the >spar with glass so the hinges could be removable? >i'm sorry if i'm going on but the manual is very vague to me. > >thanks george > > The pivot point of the hinge should be used to measure elevator deflection. If you can't get a full 30 degrees in both directions, don't worry much about it. Get as close to 30 degree up as possible and then as much down as you can get. I think that I had almost 30 degrees up and about 22 degrees down. Works good for me. Bobby Muse N122B - Wimberley, TX mailto:bmuse@mindspring.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Engine Timing From: "Stanley Mello" Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 19:23:07 PST X-Message-Number: 8 I have a completed strecheded KR2- 1 That I have just completed and it has passed the FAA inspection. I am now doing taxi tests and am having a problem with a low static RPM. The Engine is an 1835cc with a 52X46 Props Inc. propeller. With this prop it should turn 2950 RPM but I have only 2700. My ignition is a Compufire driven by an 009 distributor. I have not been able to find accurate information as to what is the proper way to time this combination. Does anyone have any info? 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Oscar Zuniga Medford, Oregon mailto: taildrags@hotmail.com website at http://www.geocities.com/taildrags/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Boat for Sale From: Lon V Boothby Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 23:12:32 -0800 X-Message-Number: 10 What are you asking for you KR2 boat? Thanks, Lon LBoothby@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Paint removal From: Greg S Martin Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 23:20:31 -0800 X-Message-Number: 11 Question. Is there a chemical paint remover that will not bother epoxy? I need to take the finish off of my KR-1 as I don't want to ad the weight of a new paint job to the existing still in place. Or should I just not worry about. Happy building and/or flying Greg Martin, idrawtobuild@juno.com 1783 Glenwood Court Bakersfield, California 93306 work 661-861-0570, fax 861-0517 home 661-872-8781, fax 871-1822 --- END OF DIGEST --- You are currently subscribed to kr-net as: johnbou@ipinc.net To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-kr-net-110995W@telelists.com