KR> wanted: used engine cowling

[Margaret Davis]

Would anyone have a used engine cowling for a plans built KR 2 with a VW ? If 
so, Please contact me, Thank you,Brad Davis

KR> Re: Removable Turtle Deck

[JC Marais]

Goeie dag Dene,

Ek bly in Centurion, en is ook maar aan die bou - maar selfs die slakke
vorder soms vinniger.

Het jy enigsins foto's van jou projek so ver. 

Groete.

JC

JC Marais
Centurion
South Africa
082-401-5259

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From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf
Of Dene Collett
Sent: 16 May 2011 06:22
To: KRnet
Subject: Re: KR> Re: Removable Turtle Deck

Hi guys
Regarding the removeable turtledecks, I am in the process of changing from a
standard KR bubble canopy to a dragonfly canopy and will probably have to
make a new forward deck. My rear deck has not yet been attached to the
fuselage. I like the idea of having the decks removeable but am concerned
with water ingress when the plane stands outside in the rain. Can those with
removeable decks comment on this and how it was overcome please.
Regards
Dene Collett
Avlec Projects
Port Elizabeth
South Africa


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KR> Re: Removable Turtle Deck

[Mark Langford]

Dene Collett wrote:

>> I like the idea of having the decks removeable but am concerned
with water ingress when the plane stands outside in the rain. Can those with
removeable decks comment on this and how it was overcome please.<<

Both of my decks are removable and I don't believe a single drop of water 
has ever made it through that gap.  I didn't go to any huge effort to 
prevent a gap, it's just the way I did it doesn't leave a gap. And when you 
think about it, the top surface of the top longeron slopes outward slightly 
under the forward deck due to the "banana boat" effect, so that would help 
shed water anyway.  I guess it also helps that my canopy comes off along 
with the front deck (that's the only thing it's attached to, other than the 
latches), so there's no extra gap up there due to the removable deck 
feature.

If you wanted absolute "monsoon" capabilility, a slight downward overhang of 
the glass from the decks could guarantee no water ingress from the side. 
Water ingress from above would be due to something other than the removable 
feature, but I haven't found that to be a problem.

Mark Langford
ML at N56ML.com
website www.n56ml.com

KR> Calibrating fuel with Dynon and Capacitance probes

[Paul & Karen Smith]

Yes, first calibrate the probe in accordance with manufacturers instructions to 
get 0 -5v dc.

Then Select the capacitive type on the Dynon.

Then calibrate Dynon ... the D-180 manual P6.5
.
Begin with empty tanks and be ready to fill them to capacity with an accurate 
way of adding fuel
in defined increments (i.e. a standard gas pump gauge). Orient your plane into 
level flight
attitude, and repeat the following steps for each tank you wish to calibrate.
EMS Configuration 6-6 FlightDEK-D180 Installation Guide
Use the DOWN? or UP? buttons to select the tank that you wish to calibrate, and 
press SEL?.
Enter the approximate number of gallons or liters the tank can hold. It is not 
necessary to be
precise. This number is only used to determine reasonable fuel addition 
increments in the next
steps. Press NEXT. Once you have confirmed that the tank you are calibrating is 
empty, press
START. Follow the on-screen instructions until the completion of your fuel 
calibration.
At the completion of your fuel level calibration, the FlightDEK-D180 will 
present you with a
table of values in the format ?[pour #]: [mV] [gallons]?. Ensure that the mV 
values (just after the
colon) change throughout the range of pours.

Hope this helps

Paul Smith
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
pk.sm...@bigpond.net.au
http://kr2spacemodulator.blogspot.com/


-Original Message-
Dan Heath wrote:

Anyone know anything about calibrating the Dynon when you have Capacitance 
probes, which also must be calibrated?

KR> wanted: used engine cowling

[Craig Williams]

I think there is one on ebay right now

--- On Mon, 5/16/11, Margaret Davis  wrote:

> From: Margaret Davis 
> Subject: KR> wanted: used engine cowling
> To: kr...@mylist.net
> Date: Monday, May 16, 2011, 9:44 AM
> Would anyone have a used engine
> cowling for a plans built KR 2 with a VW ? If 
> so, Please contact me, Thank you,Brad Davis
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KR> wanted: used engine cowling

[Craig Williams]

Oops, It's Item number: 220770947907.  Also you can find one here: 
http://deej.net/forsale/.  I am looking for one to use as a pattern but what I 
need is a junker that I can cut up.  Anyone have one of those, cheap?

Craig
www.kr2seafury.com

--- On Mon, 5/16/11, Margaret Davis  wrote:

> From: Margaret Davis 
> Subject: KR> wanted: used engine cowling
> To: kr...@mylist.net
> Date: Monday, May 16, 2011, 9:44 AM
> Would anyone have a used engine
> cowling for a plans built KR 2 with a VW ? If 
> so, Please contact me, Thank you,Brad Davis
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Fwd: Re: KR> engine-mount

[Larry&Sallie Flesner]

At 02:38 PM 5/11/2011, you wrote:
>I will use one UL power at 107 hp and weight only 159 
>pound+oilcooler. I just love this engine.
>I want to have any fuel in my wings, so I have a question I hope 
>someone can help me on.
>The fabric who deliver the engine will make a engine mount for me.
>The fuel tank in the front is removed and the engine is lighter,
>how far forward do I have to bring the engine to bring the right CG?
>


I saw one or two post to your question and one suggested you install 
the engine and do a W &B to determine location.  I see no point in 
building two engine mounts.  Do a complete W&B series without the 
engine, complete with fuel and pilot and passenger,  and then 
determine the engine location using paper and pencil.  Use the center 
of mass of the engine for the moment arm and don't forget the weight 
and arm of the mount, cowl, prop, spinner, battery, etc.  The front 
two or three inches of the CG range would be a good target with pilot 
and fuel if adding a passenger doesn't move the CG beyond the aft limit.

Larry Flesner

KR> wanted: used engine cowling

[Margaret Davis]

hi craig   thanks for the lead, but the one on e-bay is for an s-model with a 
revmaster  thanks brad davis





From: Craig Williams 
To: KRnet 
Sent: Mon, May 16, 2011 8:19:16 AM
Subject: Re: KR> wanted: used engine cowling

Oops, It's Item number:    220770947907.  Also you can find one here: 
http://deej.net/forsale/.  I am looking for one to use as a pattern but what I 
need is a junker that I can cut up.  Anyone have one of those, cheap?

Craig
www.kr2seafury.com

--- On Mon, 5/16/11, Margaret Davis  wrote:

> From: Margaret Davis 
> Subject: KR> wanted: used engine cowling
> To: kr...@mylist.net
> Date: Monday, May 16, 2011, 9:44 AM
> Would anyone have a used engine
> cowling for a plans built KR 2 with a VW ? If 
> so, Please contact me, Thank you,Brad Davis
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KR> Re: Removable Turtle Deck

[Teate, Stephen]

"I like the idea of having the decks removeable but am concerned 
with water ingress when the plane stands outside in the rain."

Hello Dene,

Like others have done, the entire top of my airplane is easily removable. I 
made my front and aft turtle decks the same way you make a lot of 
foam/fiberglass parts. Your start with a template at both ends, put foam 
between the templates, sand to shape and glass. The first thing I did was get 
my canopy mounted the way I wanted it on the fuselage. I then made the frame 
for the canopy and glassed the canopy to the frame. I made the aft part of my 
canopy frame "structural" with the addition of a very deep rib. I put several 
layers of glass in this area and it forms my roll bar. Now add the fire wall up 
front and a small half circle template at the leading edge of your vertical 
stabilizer and you have both templates for the front and rear turtle decks. To 
avoid a very "angular" look I put about a one inch spacer over the aft edge of 
my canopy, and then sanded to that spacer. I then removed this spacer and 
sanded down to the edge of the canopy transitioning a nice radius into the 
original profile of the rear turtle deck. This worked out real well and I am 
very happy with the result and you end up with a perfectly fitting turtle deck 
no matter how you built your fuselage.

To get a good seal at my top longerons I first ran a strip of duct tape the 
full length of my aft fuselage and rolled it over and down both sides of the 
fuselage. Using two inch duct tape will give your at least one inch of tape on 
the vertical sides. With the foam in place I first took a two inch wide tape of 
fiberglass and extended it 1/4" down the side of the fuselage onto the duct 
tape and let the rest overlap onto the foam. I then glassed the rest of the 
turtle deck with KR cloth per plans but also allowed this to extend down the 
1/4". Be sure you clean up any "runs" of epoxy that make it all the way down 
the duct tape and onto the fuselage sides. If not, it will be harder to remove. 
Once cured use a putty knife under one edge and work your way down the fuselage 
and the glass will pop off the tape. 

Now turn it over and dig out the inside to suit your desire and glass the 
inside. I started with 6" slabs of foam and sanded out the inside to a depth of 
about two inches. I also left a vertical rib of about four inches that runs the 
entire length right down the center. If you dig out much more foam than this I 
would suggest that you reinstall the turtle deck on the fuselage to cure so 
that it maintains the shape you want. Once the inside and outside have been 
glassed you can them come back and glass the surface that will be in contact 
with the top of the top longerons and the two ends. I put a "joggle" in the 
front of my turtle deck where my canopy will overlap when closed.

The final result is a custom made part that fits your fuselage perfectly, minus 
the thickness of a piece of duct tape, and will seal out any chance of rain 
entering your fuselage in this area.

Stephen Teate
Paradise, Texas
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KR> KR incident minor

[STEVE bennett]

IDENTIFICATION
  Regis#: 7786LMake/Model: EXP   Description: KR2
  Date: 05/14/2011 Time: 1800

  Event Type: Incident   Highest Injury: None Mid Air: NMissing: N
  Damage: Minor

LOCATION
  City: OCEANO   State: CA   Country: US

DESCRIPTION
  AIRCRAFT ON LANDING, VEERED OFF THE SIDE OF THE RUNWAY AND THE NOSE GEAR 
  COLLAPSED, OCEANO, CA

INJURY DATA  Total Fatal:   0
 # Crew:   1 Fat:   0 Ser:   0 Min:   0 Unk:
 # Pass:   0 Fat:   0 Ser:   0 Min:   0 Unk:
 # Grnd: Fat:   0 Ser:   0 Min:   0 Unk:

WEATHER: NOT REPORTED

OTHER DATA
  Activity: Pleasure  Phase: Landing  Operation: OTHER


  FAA FSDO: SAN JOSE, CA  (WP15)  Entry date: 05/16/2011 




Steve Bennett
Great Plains Aircraft
ifly...@msn.com

KR> parts

[Ray Fuenzalida]

Hey guys,
I am looking for the extension that goes on the back of the harmonic balancer 
so that I can set up my rear starter/alternator.  It is the spacer for the flex 
plate.  I believe Mark L. had a production run done some time ago - are there 
any left?  Does anybody else have one left over?  Or alternative suggestions?
Will check WW's site in the interim.  Thanks.
Ray
New Orleans

KR> Re: Removable Turtle Deck

[JC Marais]

Hi all KRnetter,

Sorry for the private message sent worldwide, instead of to Dene only. I
made the standard error of replying to somebody's message, without changing
the ADDRESS from KRnet to his.

Anyway, shortly after this error, 2 guys unknown to me, staying not far from
me (well, relatively close - 65 and 300kms) phoned me and we had very
interesting discussions.
So - thanks to the Net, and sorry guys.


Regards.

JC

JC Marais
Centurion
South Africa
082-401-5259




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From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf
Of JC Marais
Sent: 16 May 2011 12:38
To: 'Dene Collett'; 'KRnet'
Subject: RE: KR> Re: Removable Turtle Deck



Goeie dag Dene,

Ek bly in Centurion, en is ook maar aan die bou - maar selfs die slakke
vorder soms vinniger.

Het jy enigsins foto's van jou projek so ver.

Groete.

JC

JC Marais
Centurion
South Africa
082-401-5259

-Original Message-
From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf
Of Dene Collett
Sent: 16 May 2011 06:22
To: KRnet
Subject: Re: KR> Re: Removable Turtle Deck

Hi guys
Regarding the removeable turtledecks, I am in the process of changing from a
standard KR bubble canopy to a dragonfly canopy and will probably have to
make a new forward deck. My rear deck has not yet been attached to the
fuselage. I like the idea of having the decks removeable but am concerned
with water ingress when the plane stands outside in the rain. Can those with
removeable decks comment on this and how it was overcome please.
Regards
Dene Collett
Avlec Projects
Port Elizabeth
South Africa


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KR> New W&B for Black Bird

[Dan Heath]

In case you are interested, this is the new W&B for the Black Bird, with
full fuel.




CG Calculations

Gallons Fuel

Net Weight

Station

Moment Weight

Station

Most forward = 0


Most aft = 6


Plane Empty

720

19.76

14229.8125

Center = 4


Pilot 

186

39.0429

7261.9794



Passenger

0

39.0429

0



Fuel

21.2

127.2

38.4900

4895.928




Totals

1033.2

26387.72

25.540

5.227



*Note - The CG number is adjusted to 8 inches aft of the leading edge of the
wing, which is the most forward CG allowed which would show as zero.





So, you can see that if I fly it with full fuel, I will be getting close to
the aft CG limit, but this is a very good thing for being able to get the CG
right with the heavier Corvair engine.  I was concerned that the CG would go
too far forward, but this indicates to me, that it should come in quite
good.



I tried to start it today, but it would not fire.  I just gave it a shot
with no attempt to diagnose.  Tomorrow, I will see if the fuel is being
pumped from the tanks.  It has to be siphoned quite a way up hill to get to
the carb.



See N64KR at   http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on
the pics 

See you at the 2011 - KR Gathering in Mt. Vernon, Il - MVN

There is a time for building and it never seems to end.

Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC

KR> New W&B for Black Bird

[Dan Heath]

Sorry about that.  I did not realize that KR Net was going to butcher it up
that bad.

The net of it is that I now have 21.2 gallons of fuel in the wings and with
me and full fuel on board, I am just under .7" inside the aft CG limit.  The
plane now weighs 720# empty.  So, I guess with the Corvair it will be around
760 or so.  It will be interesting to find out.

See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics 
See you at the 2011 - KR Gathering in Mt. Vernon, Il - MVN
There is a time for building and it never seems to end.
Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC

KR> wanted: used engine cowling

[michael inskeep]

try larry knox at lebianair,. he had one for a vw.
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Margaret Davis wrote:

> hi craig   thanks for the lead, but the one on e-bay is for an s-model with
> a
> revmaster  thanks brad davis
>
>
>
>
> 
> From: Craig Williams 
> To: KRnet 
> Sent: Mon, May 16, 2011 8:19:16 AM
> Subject: Re: KR> wanted: used engine cowling
>
> Oops, It's Item number:220770947907.  Also you can find one here:
> http://deej.net/forsale/.  I am looking for one to use as a pattern but
> what I
> need is a junker that I can cut up.  Anyone have one of those, cheap?
>
> Craig
> www.kr2seafury.com
>
> --- On Mon, 5/16/11, Margaret Davis  wrote:
>
> > From: Margaret Davis 
> > Subject: KR> wanted: used engine cowling
> > To: kr...@mylist.net
> > Date: Monday, May 16, 2011, 9:44 AM
> > Would anyone have a used engine
> > cowling for a plans built KR 2 with a VW ? If
> > so, Please contact me, Thank you,Brad Davis
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