Back when this first came up, I volunteered to handle the prop bank and will still be glad to do it. I have room to store and inventory props and have daily access to shipping and receiving. If we can get this prop bank going, I too think it would benefit many folks.
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI USA E-mail me at flyk...@wi.rr.com Visit my KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at http://mywebpage.netscape.com/n886mj/homepage.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:26 PM Subject: KR> prop fund becomes "KR Prop Bank"? > A few months ago we took up a collection for a "prop fund", a sort of KR > prop bank where folks could swap, trade, sell, or buy a KR prop that didn't > quite work on one KR, but might be dandy on another. I collected about $550 > to get the thing rolling, but I've yet to buy a prop. Obviously, I don't > want to blow it on one prop. So I'm hoping some kind souls who have an old > KR prop hanging around that they have no use for wouldn't mind selling it to > the fund for a bargain, so that somebody who's not quite sure what prop they > need would have a chance to try some different ones before he went out and > dropped the big bucks. > > Now that I think about it, some folks may have a prop, but want to hang on > to it for a spare. If that's the case, you could let us know what you've > got and we'll put it in the "could be borrowed temporarily" class and if the > need arises, you could ship it direct to somebody to try out, with the > understanding that they owe you $50 for the privilege, you'd want it right > back, and if they trash it they have to buy it. Is there anybody out there > that could automate this and put it online? I guess I'm talking about a > realtime "KR prop bank" where folks could offer their old/spare prop to the > communtity to give folks the chance to "test drive" a prop to find out what > works best on their KR. I'd think that the borrower would send the lender > a check big enough to cover things if it never came back though. If things > worked out between lender and borrower, somebody might even get a good deal > on a prop, and the seller could now afford to get something that worked > better as his own "spare". Whatayathink? > > On the WAF front, I'm told that RR has had trouble getting WAFs, so that's > probably the reason for the delay. She'll deliver eventually. So I don't > think I need to make any WAFs after all. > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
