KRNetHeads, It's kind of quiet lately, so I'll throw this one out. My Windows background image is one I took of Larry Flesner's plane as we were "on top" at about 10,500' flying to the last SAA fly-in earlier this year. The picture isn't that clear, the plane was a long way from me, but the vague clouds in the background and the whole feel and serenity of the moment make this my favorite KR shot. Check it out at http://www.krnet.org/krs/n211lf.jpg and feel free to make it your background if you want to.
Since we had a few days of rainy weather, I have the top off of my KR at the moment doing some needed upgrades like the new 21 Amp hour PowerSonic battery and improvements to the back of the instrument panel, and trying to figure out why my mixture meter didn't read anything on my last flight. I have to admit that I've come to rely on that thing way too much, and felt uneasy flying without it. I have another O2 sensor ready to install if that turns out to by the problem, since it's only $30 and I have 350 hours on this one. Since I actually have two mixture meters in the panel (one is being "tested") and they both quit, that's my first guess. By the way, I've run over 1500 gallons of auto fuel through my plane so far, and have yet to find a single drop of water in it, very little contamination in the filters (most of that was fibers from the fuel line), and no problems with the vinylester fuel tank material.. Very little of that fuel had alcohol in it, but I did run some through it while in Iowa this summer, and have nothing in my system that would be affected by it, including the diaphragm in the Ellison carb. I know somebody that's had one of those diaphragms submerged in E85 for three years, with no ill effects. I should say that Ellison forbids autofuel in their carb, but I've yet to see why, other than the fact that the pressure regulator is more subject to vapor lock with auto fuel than with 100LL. I will admit that my plane can be leaned more agressively while still running smoothly with 100LL than with auto fuel, and the 100LL leaves the bottom of the plane much cleaner than the 93 octane auto fuel swill that I get from the local Raceway station. I added up the logbook numbers the other night and I now have 940 KR landings in 18 months of flying, and it was parked for three of those months. You'd have thought I'd have it figured out by now, but I'm still working on it. Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
