Lee Van Dyke wrote: > That's 8000 worth of stuff, already put together
Probably so, but Galen's description leaves a lot of questions to be answered. For example is the carb a POSa? Is the engine a home brew or something without extra front bearing area, or is a higher quality installation like a GPASC Force One or Revmaster? Although we all assume the gear is Diehl, Bill Clapp once sold a set of home brewed gear to a guy in Australia as "KR gear", which was heavy, hideous, and of dubious engineering quality. [To be fair, it came on the project from which his airplane was derived, and then he sold it to the Aussie rather than use it himself]. Are the fuselage and wings a good build quality, already sanded, prepped, and "really" ready for paint? "Needs paint" may mean it's really ready for paint, but there's a lot of room between the two, and I've seen some pretty bad quality finished KRs before. I'm not picking on Galen at all...his may very well be a masterpiece and a steal...I've seen plenty of them float by on KRnet. I'm just saying that the assembly of $8000 in parts is not always worth the sum of the parts! If nothing else, I'm saying that a few pictures are worth several thousand words, but even just a few more words would be helpful. This is an example of the problem with many KR messages...a few words dashed off in a sentence or two that leave many questions unanswered, and probably some worthy KR projects sent to the dump as a result... Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
