Bou; my guess is that once you get the upper deck separated from the airframe and see how everything goes together under there, you'll be making various other improvements and modifications as well. All good, all good, but there is a fine balance between making improvements and doing a complete overhaul (as I'm sure Jeff Scott can attest from his recent fuel tank rebuild experience), but as someone once said, "do it right the first time and you'll only have to do it once".
In my case, completely different setup but the one thing I do know is that there are areas up under the fuel tank in the front cockpit of my Piet that I'm not sure I could ever get myself out of if I were to get a muscle cramp while stuffed under there. I've come close to becoming a permanent part of the front cockpit a time or two after pretzeling myself in under there to work on the fuel shutoff valve and rudder pedals and like to have never gotten myself out. A readily-removable access door or panel would really help. Piet builder/pilot Kevin Purtee cut a square hole in the floor of his airplane up between the rudder pedals in the front cockpit and installed a clear Lexan cover over it with screws just for that purpose. Interestingly, it can also be used by the front cockpit passenger to see things under the airplane and watch the runway come zooming up into view on final. Adds that extra dash of exhilaration, and in the case of the KR, looking down through a view panel on landing would probably seem like the plane was about to make a gear-up landing, they sit so close to the pavement ;o) Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
