John,
E-mail Mark Langford or anyone that does not use the same provider as you
and ask them if you can e-mail him the copy of the blocked message and have
him forward it to me. I will then get it to Road Runner and have the problem
corrected.

Mark Jones (N886MJ)
Wales, WI  USA
E-mail me at flyk...@wi.rr.com
Visit my KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/n886mj/homepage.html


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martindale Family" <johnj...@chc.net.au>
To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 4:50 AM
Subject: KR>Spam and responses to Larry and Mark


Sorry about this folks but my emails to Larry and Mark continue to be
blocked by Road Runner and my provider and I cannot email the latter direct
as per their removal/fix instructions because the nominated address is being
blocked also!!  Talk about Catch 22. This is ridiculous. I and my provider
are not being blocked by other systems including the KRnet so why should I
have to go to such lengths to get past Road Runner. In my view it is RR that
has the problem. I am not a spammer and I have some honest information for
Larry and Mark as copied below that may be of interest to all.

Regards John

The Martindale Family
29 Jane Circuit
TOORMINA NSW 2452
AUSTRALIA

phone: 61 2 66584767
email: johnj...@chc.net.au

FOR LARRY:

Hello Larry

Actually it is not my design but based on a principle I found on the
archives some time ago. I think it was called the bambi style. In my humble
view it is the simplest and strongest option and will remain closed in
flight in the event of a latch failure.

The minimium length of the arms depends on the centre height of the front
turtledeck above the hinge point...too short and it will not open enough.
The longer the length, the further towards or even past vertical the canopy
will open. You really need to draw a scale side view sketch and impose the
radius (length from hinge point to centre front canopy lip) on the
turtledeck height. On mine, the turtledeck is approx 7" above the longerons
and the arm protrudes approx 7" forward of the the point where the lip meets
the canopy. This is difficult to explain in words....perhaps you could scale
off the Langford picture using an instrument diameter as a guide.

The arm is composed of a 1/4" ply rail that follows the longeron curve and
has the canopy frame glassed to it. Within the glass, lying along the rail
and protruding forward the 7" is a 1" and 1" aluminium angle that has a
bronze hinge pivot bush pressed into its vertical face at the leading end.
You could use a small bearing just as easily. The length of the angle
overall and thus the ultimate opening canopy angle is limited by the
curvature of the rail and the need to keep the former parallel with the
other side so it will open without binding.

The angle piece picks up on a 1" and 1/8" aluminium bar slotted vertically
through the longerons and flush bolted through a spruce spacer to the
fuselage side. AN3 bolts with castle nuts and cotters complete the hinge.
Small gas struts mounted appropriately to the angle provide the opening
force.

My front deck is not removable but does have an inspection panel cut into it
that gives access to instruments etc. Most of the usual fuel tank space
forward of that becomes a luggage locker with a curved door only accessible
on the ground.

Hope this helps, Larry. It's probably best to get the principle in your head
and then work around the dimensions until you're happy.

I'm on holidays at the moment but will forward you some photos on my return.

Regards John.

FOR MARK:


Hi Mark

It's a 40 DCOE Weber (double side draft with shared bowl). Each throat
serves one head or three cylinders and has 30 mm choke, idle jet 60F8,
accelerator pump jet 65, main jet 160, emulsion tube F9 and air correction
jet 200. I get 3100 rpm static using a 56" three blade Warp Drive set at 10
degrees of pitch. It seems to operate OK and is easy to muck around with
jets etc accessible under the Mickey Mouse cap. I haven't tried any other
carb so it's difficult to compare.

A drawback is that there is no mixture control. I had thought to use the
choke section to fill this function but it depends on suction at idle across
the butterfly and thus cuts out at higher revs. The carb also gets rather
hot on top of the engine after flight making subsequent hot starts a little
difficult. I have been thinking about remounting it either below the engine
or using a different carb all together off the firewall so I can have
mixture control either manual or self compensating...that Harley number
looks appealing as does the CV Stromberg.

It's not a high priority at present as I'm mainly concerned about getting my
oil temp ( up to 140 C would prefer under 110 C) down on hot Australian
summer days...looking at a dedicated scoop for the oil cooler rather than
relying just on flow through the front from the prop otherwise a larger
remote cooler seems to be the last option.

Regards

John
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