I have the same problem. I have found Dan very easy to talk to, but the simple fact is that most of the companies supplying for the homebuilt market do not produce installation manuals that are appropriate for the first time builder. "Simply put it together" doesn't cut it. When I wrote manuals years ago, I had them reviewed by house wives who were not interested in what I was doing. Until they could easily understand what I was saying, AND wanted to try it, the manual was not done. Dan makes a good product, as does Great Plains, but both would save a great deal of support time and irritated buyer reactions if they would provide manuals that prevented comments like Mike's. Such manuals are not that difficult, nor much longer than those supplied. Step by step instructions, along with diagrams or pictures, at each stage of construction would help. The KR2 would be a simple plane to build if anything was defined properly and worked as advertised.
At 07:39 PM 7/22/2003 -0500, you wrote: >So I just spent the last couple of months ripping out my retracts, putting >in a Diehl gear assembly, foaming and glassing the resulting holes and >today I put my Matcos on only to find that the camber between the wheels >isn't even remotely close. I sat there in a very pissed off mood measuring >and re-measuring again only to find that the lower gear brackets do not >share the same angle formed between the gear leg and the axle. As a matter >of fact, it turns out that between the two, they're several degrees off >(about 4 degrees). For those of you messing around with gear geometry at >this point in your life, you know that this is a lot of degrees. I can't >understand this - it never occurred to me to check this prior to bolting >them to the gear legs. In fairness to the people at Diehl, I bought the >assembly second-hand, but it obviously was not damaged. And judging from >what I see on the web, it sure looks like a Diehl assembly. Moreover, a >shim is really not going to work very well - a quick computation with my >CAD program indicates that a 4 degree tapered shim behind the axle is >about .210 thick. I'm just sick about this mess. Anybody out there got any >clever solutions short of ripping my plane apart again? > >Mike Meyer _______________________________________________ >see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html Larry Severson Fountain Valley, CA 92708 (714) 968-9852 lar...@socal.rr.com
