Feel for you Steve. Where at Chino are you located?
On Jan 4, 2011, at 6:08 AM, oceanmanus <oceanma...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Glad to hear your OK. You need to move your operation to North Texas where > the > rent is cheap. > > Joe Cygan > > > > ________________________________ > From: I FLY KRs <n92...@cox.net> > To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> > Sent: Tue, January 4, 2011 1:23:56 AM > Subject: RE: KR> Any word on NVaero after airport flood? > > Those pics pretty well sum up my past couple weeks. The large hangars > midfield in the bottom of the horse shoe is where we were located. We ended > up with about 9' of water. I received the call about 1:30 in the afternoon. > After renting two 26' u-haul trucks and a flatbed, we worked until about > 4:30 in the morning getting as much as we could. Both trucks were packed to > the gills, KR-1 put on the flatbed, and the Clausing lathe and Bridgeport > mill made it out. All the molds, much tooling and supplies, as well as 3 > airframes remained. We came back a couple hours later and were turned away > as water was already in our hangar. > > I was able to walk in today. About 2 - 3 inches of muck and mud remains. > The KR-100, the new KR-2S fuselage, and a few molds, including a set of > center section skins that are ready to be pulled from the molds were > untouched by water. The new design light sport airframe we were building is > shot so we will have to start over and probably will not make it to > Sun-N-Fun with it like we had hoped. Most of the remaining mold were in the > water but fortunately look like they will clean up well. There were a few > tools and parts I thought had made it into the truck that were found in > various places of the hangar. I had a new Bosch drill/ driver that > apparently was left on one of our fabrication tables. Somehow it escaped > unscathed and works perfect. It seems that particular table floated and > never submerged. Our fuselage table and glass cutting table weren't so > lucky. We will have to build new ones. > > We had been diligently working on the final plugs/ molds for the new AS-5046 > airfoil, center section, and 009 tail group. I am happy to say those were > all loaded and safely stowed away in the U-hauls. > > This is the second major flood in 5 years at Corona. The past couple years > we had the threat of flood but it never happened. The Army Corps of > Engineers had modified Prado Dam so many of us thought the flooding issue > had been finally resolved so there was a false sense of security with most > of us I think. Now that we are producing parts and kits for the KR, as a > company we cannot afford this type of damage or losses. Just the move so > far has cost us about $3500 and that does not include losses from parts/ > machinery, or tooling. I figure the total hit will fall around $25k. In > light of all this we have relocated our facility to Chino (CNO), which is > about another 10 minute drive. Corona was about a 30 minute drive for us > from home so now we are looking at least 40 minutes depending on traffic. > There is a lot of activity at Chino and several businesses that will be > beneficial to have access to. While I prefer Corona overall Chino is by the > far the best choice from a business standpoint. > > The hangar is a bit smaller at the new location than what we had at Corona > but we are still planning a build out with a classroom/ pilot lounge with a > full bath and kitchenette for events or builder workshops. Once we are > built out we will have a Saturday morning breakfast club for those > interested in building their first few parts with factory support. New > builders will be able to gain some hands on experience and build confidence > to complete their projects. If any of you are ever in the area, feel free > to stop in. It is always best to give us a call so we know to expect you. > > Regards, > > Steve Glover > > > > > _______________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________ > 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
