Hi Russ, Welcome to the kr net. Re: your question about stretching the existing fuselage. If you try to cut or slice apart the existing, you will probably destroy the wood( I think you will spend about half as much in wood to "remodel" the existing, But about 3 times the labor). . My suggestion is to build a NEW fuselage, and turtle deck. If you are patient, you could carefully remove the elevator, forward deck(just make fuselage the same shape) , you could also probably re-use the center section spars, but remove the fiberglass. It took me about a week to build my boat. I am a cabinetmaker, so I have tools, skills etc. I spent about 4-5 hours a night building the boat. If you do go this route, I HIGHLY recommend a 12" disc sander(Harbor Freight, about 110.00) Indispensable for making gusset blocks. I do not think you could save vert. stab, but you could save rudder. If the wings are good I think you have a great head start. Hope this helps, Jim Sporka, KR-2s, Colorado, corvair. P.S. I think I saw a post from you about the retract gear, I would change to either grove or DEIHL fixed( what I have). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ & Brenda" <russandbre...@sbcglobal.net> To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 1:17 PM Subject: Re: KR>KR2 or S Can you strech one?
> I'm new and I'm 6-2 and 250lbs. There is a KR2 I'm looking at to put a > corvair motor on, could I stretch the completed KR2 (Unpainted) or is that > more work than it's worth? I the KR2 big enough for me? I hope I'm not > asking dumb questions. > Thanks, Russ Houck. > Corsicana Texas. > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
