Mark, I have to agree with you. The more time we waste striving for that perfect fit the slower we build. I have just completed the two fuse halves on my airplane and now have only twelve hours of time on it. I can tell you that my Acro Sport II took nearly 100 hours. Granted it was a steel fuse and need to be welded, but I'm using it as a gage of how fast a KR can go together.
Build it so you can fly, not to win a beauty contest. Beauty is only skin deep and quality not perfection will get you in the air and keep you safe. Fred Johnson Reno, NV -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf Of Mark Langford Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 6:16 PM To: KRnet Subject: Re: KR> Top Drawing One more comment on this. Yes, I laid it out in CAD and printed it out full size. Why? I guess because I could, but now that I've done it, I can tell you that it's a waste of time. I've come to realize that a lot of stuff that I did during construction of my plane were just diversions to keep me from actually building and completing the thing. Absolute perfection is not a requirement for building a KR. I built a perfectly straight fuselage and in the end the thing still had a heavy left wing. That's probably because the pilot sits over there, and propwash, and who knows what else, but my point is that it's not going to be perfect, and if you'll accept 95% as "good enough for KR", you'll be done about twice as fast as if you'd strived for absolute perfection. That even goes for paint. I'll bet the guys with the perfect paint jobs will tell you that it doesn't last long, and may not have been worth the extra time spent for that temporary perfection. I can't count the number of times I wanted to scrap something because it was flawed, like say, the fuselage! But as some point you've got to admit that it's not going to be perfect and that you simply can't afford to start over on it, so you fix it best you can and get on with it. Many times I fretted for days over how to do something right, and in the end I'd finally get tired of waffling and simply pick up a tool and DO IT! I'll confess that beer often played a role in this behavior, but the end result was that it got built just fine, and it works. I feel like I can say this and get away with it, because I've seen both sides of the coin, but my advice would be to simply get on with it and build the thing, and come join in the flying fun! Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
