Sid, A couple of things: Thanks for below, I weighed my turtledeck it weighs 4 lbs 10 oz. That's still without the "roll-hoop" for the canopy interface, and with out the 2 additional'1.5 inch BID plys needed for the piano hinge interfaces, and of course no primer or finish yet. My turtledeck was 2 plys of 8.5 oz BID and 1 ply of 3.5 oz deck cloth. .020 - .025 thick skin. The Hat Sections are 2 plys of 3 inch BID Tape. I'm cutting a picture CD to send to Dan Heath so he can update the website.... What should I use for mounting plates for the pants? Cessna C150? any particular model? --- "Wood, Sidney M." <smw...@titan.com> wrote: > Scott, > My RR turtle deck weighs 8.6 pounds. I purchased it > in 1986. It has two or three layers of fiber glass > cloth (hard to tell how many) and gell coat. Total > thickness varies from 0.074 to 0.095 inches. The > gell coat probably adds a lot to the overall weight. > Bad news. But, the good news is the UV protection > is built into the gell coat without metal filler. > My VHF antenna hiding under the turtle deck will > work just fine without the Smooth-Prime metal > shielding. Smooth-Prime goes on all my vinyl ester > and other epoxy surfaces. The removable bulkhead at > the rear of my baggage shelf adds a lot of stiffness > to the turtle deck and overall tail structure on my > KR-2. The turtle deck is fastened to the wooden > structure with ss screws and aluminum angle. It > takes six minutes to remove the turtle deck and get > at everything in the tail section. > Sid Wood KR-2 N6242 > Mechanicsville, MD smw...@titan.com > > > ----- I'm very pleased with the results, I'd > venture a > guess that my turtledeck weighs less than 2 pounds? > Does anyone have a weight of a Rand Robinson > Turtledeck and could weigh it for comparison? > ===== > Scott Cable > KR-2S # 735 > Wright City, MO > s2cab...@yahoo.com > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. > http://photos.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at > http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > > >
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