Since I've never made wings for a KR I obviously don't speak from experience, however I've listened enough times to Jim Faughn & company sing the "sanding song" at Gatherings and read enough posts on KRNET to have the idea that making wings for the KR is about the least pleasant phase of building. Also, unless a person is fanatical about using breathing protection and skin protection, to one extent or another particles of stuff that must be somewhat toxic are inhaled through lungs & skin throughout the long process of getting everything just right. I know it must feel wonderful to have built your own wings, especially if they come out perfect, but there's a way around it you know?.
What prompts me to respond to a subject of which I have no personal experience is presumptious I know but I feel like throwing in my 2 cents in anyway. I was at the hangar yesterday to do a prop balance on another plane and took the opportunity to give Ken Cottle's little masterpiece a bath. It's been over thirty years since Ken and Dan Diehl put those wings on my KR-1½ (this plane was the one used in the Diehl wing installation video) and I swear, they glisten as if the DuPont Durethane had been sprayed last week. I don't know how in this plane's long history the wings have avoided hangar rash or dings of one kind or another, but they have. After more than thirty years, there's not one little waver or other imperfection in their sleek surfaces. I love the tapered shape of them too, with the little semi-winglet at the tips. I'll put a link to a picture or two that shows them at their best. I know they cost money but really, considering what everything costs when it comes to aviation, how much can it be?? Saving all that sanding, the energy, the dust, the worry of getting it right . . . investing in wings as durable as Diehl's skins have proven to be (seems to me) a no-brainer. If I'm not mistaken, Glover has created molds for the new airfoil so now there's even a choice between the tried and true RAF48 and the AS5046 which renders a 10 MPH increase in cruise plus higher drag just when you need it - when landing. Knowing Steve to be such a perfectionist, I would imagine he has designed the new molds to create a tapering airfoil, optimizing the wing from root to tip with gradual increments taking it from AS5048 at the root to AS5045 at the tip. I think Marc Jones did this with DeerKiller. Anyway . . . looking at those smooth, glistening wing surfaces yesterday filled me with admiration at how beautiful the wings are on my plane and makes me ashamed that I'm not using them more. So all you poor sanders breathing resin particles out there, or those of you still in the "thinking about it" stage, this is just a reminder there are choices. https://tinyurl.com/y2mugxhz Mike KSEE ____________________________________________________________ Do This (Before Bed) to Burn Belly Flab All Night Long worldhealthlabs.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5cfd61167c531611658a2st03vuc
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