I would build a new spar. If you don't, it will always be in the back of your mind while you are flying that there could be a problem, that is why I don't take any chances. You have enough to think about while you are flying and the thought of a potential failure from taking a shortcut should not be in your mind at all.
Steve In spite of using the WAF drilling the main spar I missed a little bit. Is it permissible to use T88 and a 3/16 wood dowl to plug the mistake or do I have to make a new spar? Garrry Cowles Santa Fe NM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:14 PM Subject: Re: KR> WAF >>> Would you trust it with you life? I would be building a new spar. Mine > are perfect and I thought about building new ones just because I did like > the E.D. that is in the WAF and I wanted to make the spar caps slightly > thicker so there is alot more meat at the WAF. Maybe that why I am only > about 15% done and going on 8 years.<< > > I have to admit that after a while you have to dispense with the idea that > it has to be perfect. I suspect that all of us have had to weigh > scrapping > the whole thing and starting over with a compromise to get it done. > Otherwise, we'd never finish. I'll bet you'd be surprised to know what > others have gotten away with. I didn't say that, of course. William > Wynne > has a theory that those who do things and don't know better will get by > just > fine, but those who know better and do it anyway will have to pay the > price. > I hope that's not true... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
