Steve Jacobs wrote: >(thank you)
You're welcome. > Please say something about access to bolts (nuts). I would appear that > most KR builders secure the nuts (typically the elevator hinge attach > bolts) and then glass over everything - so no more access to the nut > ever again. I'm going to take the time-honored "hail Mary" approach on that one too. I don't think it's a problem that I'm going to worry about. I have a set of rudder pedals here that were ripped out of a KR during a crash. They are still bolted to the upper shelf and some blocks, etc. None of the nuts are loose. I guess if it's never been a problem on previous KRs, it's not a big problem in my mind. And loads on these control surface hinges is not all that great. One that probably DOES need to be tightened occasionally would be the landing gear brackets where they go through the spar. Marty Roberts' brackets loosened up to the point that they poked a hole in the top of his wings, so it can and has happened. You'd need an access plate to do that, but I don't have one. Also, in most cases (like gear brackets) I epoxied the brackets directly to the wood. The bolts could probably fall completely out and not cause a problem... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
