Rick, I would cut the forward in half, attach a piece of 1/4" Lastofoam to the underside, slice a piece of regular foam that can be easily sanded, to the shape of the gap. Fill that area with that foam and sand smooth. Put bid on the under and top side.
On the Turtle deck, you probably have more issues than just the fact that your plane has been widened. You will want to first consider what you want the shape behind your head, to be like. Make a bow into that shape. Some people make the bows from strips of wood. I have found that the easiest to make is using foam and glass. Once you have the bow in place, cut the lip off the front of the turtle deck, and spread it over the foam. You can attach it with flox and clamps. Now you will fill the sides with sheets of foam, sort of like filling the gap on the forward deck. This gives you a nice smooth finish on the top. See: http://kr-builder.org/TurtleDeck/index.html There are not very many pictures, this was pre digital camera. I know there are more somewhere, but cannot find them. Just when you think you are not making any progress, you look back on pictures like this and realize how much progress has been made. Thanks for asking the question. N64KR Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC da...@kr-builder.org See you in Mt. Vernon - 2004 - KR Gathering See our KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Click on the pic See our EAA Chapter 242 at http://EAA242.org -------Original Message------- From: KR builders and pilots List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:53:46 PM To: kr...@mylist.net Subject: Re: KR>Newbie Questions Thank you, Mark. It also comes with the premolded turtledeck and forward deck. Would I just cut these in half and fill them with BID -- will that be strong enough? Rick --- Mark Langford <n5...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > > 3. Given the widened fuse, how difficult would it > be > > to fit a preformed canopy and cowling (not > included in > > the package). > > RR will be quick to tell you that their canopy will > not fit a KR2 or S > that's been widened more than 1.5". I doubt that > the firewall is widened > 4", but if it is, their cowling certainly won't fit > either. The Dragonfly > will fit perfectly though, as detailed at > http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/kcf.html . > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html .
