(quote) The Thurston County Reusable Materials Exchange (/quote) Sounds like what we used to call a "junk yard", oh how times have changed.
Well anyway, my post about that engine mount was a mistake on my part, I intended for it to go only to Jeff Scott who sent me the plan sheet files. Then I saw it pop up on the KRnet and realized what I had done but it was too late to do anything about it. No, I'm not an expert by any means but I have built a couple of KR mounts. I don't have a welder so I farm that out to a local certified welder that does beautiful work at $45 an hour. So by the time you buy the materials/shipping and pay for the welding your talking in the neighborhood of $300 plus or so. I only work on things when I feel like it and that's why it takes me so long, but when I do feel like it, I do a really good job as my wife has found out many times. I can take pictures (I like doing that) of the building jig and post them on Photobucket for everyone to see if anyone would like but I don't intend to build anymore mounts. You see, It broke my heart when I crashed O"Blue but I new crying wouldn't do any good (but I did). So it helps my emotions to repair and rebuild it, I'm just not in a hurry. I have been a pilot and flown from 1982 to the present with a few hundred hours so I don't have "Buck fever" anymore and really I just enjoy building and rebuilding. So If I live long enough, I intend to remake O'Blue. I have all of the wood structure built and ready to remount the Cont. O-200-A engine. The major difference will be the new AS5046 airfoil. I think I will be reusing most of the original parts unless I update to more modern instruments and such like a glass cockpit. Good luck with your projects. Dan. ---- Craig Williams <kr2seaf...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hey Dan Now that you're an expert mount maker, any interest in doing another? I need one for my 2S and have been waiting to see if someone parts out a project first but since that has not happened I will need to buy one soon. Craig ________________________________ From: "mfreem...@indy.rr.com" <mfreem...@indy.rr.com> To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 12:21 PM Subject: Re: KR> Engine mount Hi Jeff; I thought I would let you know that I got my new Cont. O-200-A engine mount finished today. I know, these things take time don't they. Anyway I'm now going to prep it for painting so I can get the engine mounted soon. By the way, I mounted it to the engine for a test fit and it did great, it clears the alternator with room to spare using my 28" top and 26" bottom dimensions with 14-1/2" seperation top to bottom. It matches up to the firewall just great. Now the building fixture that I built will accomodate any of three engine mounts for the KR-2/KR-2S depending on how one prefers to mount it to the firewall and can easily be adapted to a VW if needed. Well, have a great day and thanks for helping with the mount plans. Dan. ---- Jeff Scott <jscott.pla...@gmx.com> wrote: > FWIW, my KR was started before there were any -2S plans, so my firewall is > the smaller KR-2 firewall and the drawing you have is the mount I am using. > (My KR started out as a stock KR-2 with an extra 14" bay in the fuselage.) My > W&B came out about as perfect as one could want with the mount as is using > the C series mount bushings and adapters. However, I did calculate mounting > it with the longer O-200 mount bushings and my plane would have been just > fine in either case. I only used the C series bushings and adapters so I > could avoid extending all my wiring, engine control cables, and cowling. > > This really depends on what your plane weighs and how it's distributed. But >if you plan to use the standard O-200 mount bushings, I would probably shorten >the mount about an inch. I expect this mount is probably a bit longer than the >one that was on your plane before. > > -Jeff Scott > Los Alamos, NM > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: mfreem...@indy.rr.com > Sent: 06/22/12 04:55 PM > To: kr...@mylist.net > Subject: KR> Engine mount > > I'm not trying to beat a dead horse here but looking at the plan sheet for >the KR-2S engine mount and the Cont. O-200 engine that Jeff sent me, I noticed >that the spacing from the firewall to the O-200 engine mount casting (11-1/2") >is just that, it does not show any isolator bushings which in the case of the >O-200 would add another inch to the dimensions and make it (12-1/2") from the >firewall to the casting and I kind of feel that might be just a little too far >forward for the KR-2, so I made two sets of spacers for my jig so it can be >made either way, 10-1/2" or 11-1/2". I also made the top horizontal mount >spacing 28" for the KR-2 and 30" for the KR-2S. The older KR-2 firewall was >narrower than the new KR-2S by 1-3/4" according to both of my plan sets. But, >does anyone have real time experiance with the KR-2 and the Cont. O-200 engine >mounted farther forward than 10-1/2" from the firewall to the standard O-200 >isolator mount bushings? > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
