I switched from Posa to Amal Monobloc on the advice of an EAA engineer. Similar to the Bing as used on the Thruster Light plane. Had problems when the throttle stuck in the WOP. Spoke to the engineer who ran a flight of Thrusters for a charity and he also had this prob with the carb. His solution was to spray the inlet with WD40 once a month. Mac
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:22 AM, Chris Kinnaman via KRnet < krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: > Hello Owen, > I had some experience with Lectron carbs on a motorcycle. They were a real > PITA to get dialed in so they worked smoothly over the entire range of > throttle. I don't think we ever got both of them working right at the same > time. Performance didn't seem to be improved all that much either - But > that application vs aircraft & VW is apples to oranges. Still, I would > suspect a long, drawn out learning curve when it comes time to tune the > carb to get it to do what you want. I ended up doing a lot of miniscule, > finicky, time-consuming adjustments to the height of the needles to get > them to work decently. The carbs I had did not have any capability of > on-the-fly mixture adjustment like a typical aircraft carb would have, also > no choke or enrichening circuit so a primer setup would be beneficial for > an airplane application. Just my $.02. > > Chris > > > > > On 3/23/2016 7:29 PM, svd via KRnet wrote: > >> Greetings KR folks, >> >> 1) I am looking for any KR / VW folks in the central California area I >> might be able to meet and have a look at my KR project. I?m looking for >> rational on what?s there (original builder died, no info from family), and >> advice on moving the project forward. I?ve built before, but not VW and >> not KR. >> >> 2) The original builder had a POSA carb, but then changed it to a >> Lectron float carb: >> http://www.lectronfuelsystems.com <http://www.lectronfuelsystems.com/> >> >> Anyone know anything about these Lectron carbs? Were they the HAPI float >> carb? >> >> Larry, sorry about the problems with pictures and "all the slime balls >> of the world", I didn?t realize you needed a flikr account to just to view >> pictures. I am putting a web site for my KR-2s together which should make >> sharing easier. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Owen Hughes (Osprey 2, Cavalier, B36-TC, and someday KR-2s) >> Davis, CA 95616 >> email: osprey220 at yahoo.com <mailto:osprey220 at yahoo.com> >> >> 530.220.0403 >> _______________________________________________ >> Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. >> To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org >> please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >> see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to >> change options >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options >
