Bill, You have no need to apologize to these people. Too many of them take themselves far, far too seriously when nobody else does. I'm sure their projects are so perfect and totally without flaw that they have earned the right to sit at the right hand of God himself. Now, for the rest of you critics sitting out there, let me tell you a little story about myself.
I used to be very much like you, then on August 6, 1989, my whole life changed. I had been recently baptized a Christian and was pointing my finger at other Christians and their mistakes. Unless you're a roper, you will have at least three fingers pointing back at you when you point at someone else. Being an amateur radio operator living in Cheyenne, Wyoming, at the time, I got on the emergency weather net due to a major thunderstorm rolling into Cheyenne at the time. It was very electrical and dropped nearly 3 inches of rain and small hail in about 20 minutes. To read the rain gauge, I had to go outside. There were constant flashes of lightening and an endless roll of thunder. In a moment of pure genius, I thought, "I'd better disconnect my radio station before it gets hit by lightening." While holding the coax in my left hand, my right hand was on my very well grounded Drake TR-4 and my feet on the cement floor of the basement. The next thing I remembered was waking up some 15 feet from where I'd been standing, numb and temporally paralyzed, lying on the floor looking up at the ceiling wondering if I were dead or alive. After a few moments, I was able to pick myself up and realized I really was alive. I stopped taking myself seriously and living solely for myself at that point and began living only for others. Now, if you're wondering what this has to do with Bill and his KR he sold, and sold for a price that was reasonable for both him and the buyer, here it is. Visit your local Ace Hardware store. Buy an Ace all metal kite, a long fine spool of wire and wait for the next thunderstorm to come rolling through to fly it. It couldn't hurt. In some of your cases, it could only help. Don't take yourselves so seriously: Nobody else does. -------Original Message------- From: KR builders and pilots List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Saturday, September 06, 2003 23:16:39 To: KR builders and pilots Subject: Re: KR>KR 4 sale the kr is sold so i will let you think what ever you want. people like you are always right so i will tell you that your right and that i am sorry i steped on you toes. --- Colin <crain...@cfl.rr.com> wrote: > William, > It is for sale and therefore out in the open to be > evaluated; that is what people do in order to buy > it. > I don't want to sound antagonistic, but if it is > such a chariot, why are you selling it? > > The original retracts are known for problems, are a > bad design to try to retract them on climbout, while > maintaining aircraft control, and any paint job that > is $300 is an Earl Schibe/Maco special, that will be > thin, heavy, low quality paint that will not last. > Several KR netters have reported prices for their > prep work prior to painting where they have invested > more than that, and they furnished their own labor! > If I am not mistaken Larry Flesner reported spending > nearly that much on super fill and primer alone. I > am sure that you are very proud of your airplane, > and you have put into it alot of hard work. But > aircraft, specifically homebuilts are not like used > cars, that start at a base price because everything > appears to work. Several netters including myself > have bought new 0 time airframes complete for what > you are asking for an older airplane that does not > have some of the later refinements and improvements. > I am sure that at some point there will be someone > who agrees with your assessment of its value. Dan > Heath stated what he thought an appropriate value of > it was and I merely agreed with him, and stated why. > I did not intend on offending you, nor insulting > you. But your reaction does leave something to be > desired to sway my opinion in your direction. > However, as always this is my opinion, and I stand > corrected by anyone who performs an inspection in > person and finds me to be wrong... > Colin Rainey KR2(td) > crain...@cfl.rr.com > Sanford, Florida > FLY > SAFE!!!!_______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html .
