Yeah... my project - I've thought of selling many times... and now the wife is moving her dog grooming business downstairs Lots of new clutter and lack of space... I can't afford a hanger- then there's the whole health thing... Bottom line, there's no way I'll ever finish it or sell it. For info, it's 85-90% done, got a Subaru EA-81 with a 10 year old belt on the re-drive. The engine is rebuilt using NSI 'hot' cam - turbo charged. dual ignition, belly mounted radiator al la P51 - panel is complete, but transponder and radio seem to be malfuntioning - who knows why... But it does start and run nicely. Fuselage is painted, wings not. The wife would sure like the space. Anybody want to make me an offer? Anybody want to guess what it's worth? probably $20K into it, Hah!??!@
On 12/28/2013 7:05 AM, Mark Langford wrote: > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to > change options > > >
