KR> Canopy and website update.

2012-05-14 Thread stef...@kpnmail.nl
KR friends, Over here in Holland we are still in progress. The complete upper and fwd deck is finished ex paint. The canopy frame is finished, inside painted. Next week we will glue the Dragonfly canopy to it. We made the canopy frame and the roll bar from CF. The final weight for the frame

KR> Built up spar? Thoughts on retracts.

2012-05-14 Thread Vern Taylor
I am in the process of doing the sums for spars with the dihedral at the root. I don't have the means to build and then move a complete aircraft to the airfield. So the WAF's will have to stay. There is a KR2 in Temora with retracts, I believe it is very reliable and fast. I could probably get deta

KR> Re: Rolling her on the deck!

2012-05-14 Thread Sid Wood
Martin, Here is a picture from Bernie Wunder's website for a rotisserie to turn a KR; I used a similar setup on my KR-2. It allows in, over and under work while you stand on the floor. Sure saves a lot of time and aching back. http://www.mykitlog.com/users/display_log.php?user=bwunder&project=2

KR> KR Builder of the month

2012-05-14 Thread I FLY KRs
Bernie Wunder is the featured builder of the month at http://www.mykitlog.com/ . Didn't know they had a featured builder each month. Steve Glover

KR> Re: KRnet Digest, Vol 354, Issue 133

2012-05-14 Thread Dustin
Vern I would appreciate some more details on the plane you mentioned. If all else fails im going to design my own retracts, but if someone else has already got a set built that would fit my needs i would be more than happy to capitalize lol. Blessed is the lord my strength which teaches my

KR> Built up spars? Thoughts o. Retracts?

2012-05-14 Thread Dustin
Vern I would appreciate some more details on the plane you mentioned. If all else fails im going to design my own retracts, but if someone else has already got a set built that would fit my needs i would be more than happy to capitalize lol. Blessed is the lord my strength which teaches my

KR> Wheels

2012-05-14 Thread Pat and Robin Russo
David Wheels arrivedand what a wonderful bonus,... extra tires and the brakes are discs!! I have built 3 KRs and never saw cable operated discs before. I will definitely use them when I figure out how they are installed. I cannot imagine what or how the springs that you have tied to the AN bolt

KR> Re: KRnet Digest, Vol 354, Issue 133

2012-05-14 Thread Virgil N. Salisbury
Refresh my memory. I am getting older, VIRG On 5/14/2012 1:29 PM, Dustin wrote: > Vern > > > I would appreciate some more details on the plane you mentioned. If all > else fails im going to design my own retracts, but if someone else has > already got a set built that would f

KR> Re: KRnet Digest, Vol 354, Issue 133

2012-05-14 Thread Dustin
Vern, not Virg. Blessed is the lord my strength which teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight.

KR> cowling mold

2012-05-14 Thread rkp...@comcast.net
Not sure why my link to my photobucket isn't working,but I'll try again. Robert Pesak Hermitage, Tn http://photobucket.com/robertskrs

KR> Wheels

2012-05-14 Thread Allen G. Wiesner
>I have built 3 KRs and never saw cable operated discs before. I >will definitely use them when I figure out how they are installed. I cannot >imagine what or how the springs that you have tied to the AN bolts, are >installed. If there is a post-war (WW2) Aeronca Chief (11AC or BC) at a field

KR> Wheels

2012-05-14 Thread Pat and Robin Russo
Thanks Allen, I could use some direction, pictures, sketches, anything!!! Pat Russo -Original Message- From: Allen G. Wiesner Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 4:28 PM To: KRnet Subject: Re: KR> Wheels >I have built 3 KRs and never saw cable operated discs before. I >will definitely use them wh

KR> Wheels

2012-05-14 Thread David Rayburn
I have the landing gear legs that all that stuff mounts to. Maybe I should have sent the whole landing gear assemblies. So you could see how it all worked and went together. I was just about to take all that stuff and sell it as scrap aluminum. If you want the gear legs I will let you have them for