Greetings Thank you greatly for your candor Larry and I appreciate it.
Maybe if I add a little perspective my questions may make a little more sense. As you possibly know, I am in South Africa and completing a KR-2 Build that I recently took over so am learning as I go. In South Africa a number of materials taken for granted in the US & Canada etc are either not available or prohibitively expensive and alternative methods or materials need to be found and researched. Hence my question if it really matters if the fuselage is marine ply (what we have is South Africa) or fibreglass laminate or something else? If so, what are the pro's & con's that need to be taken into consideration before deciding? A simple example would be nutplates, freely available in the US from what I understand but not here. After taking the exchange rate, import duties, taxes, and steep courier fees into account, they become very expensive so unless there is a specific reason to justify the expense, an alternative is looked for; therefore I am playing with things like U-shape cage clips (used in server cabinets) or T-Nuts for access panels etc as an alternative to nutplates as they are readily available, reasonably priced and appear to work really well :) I am also someone who asks ALOT of questions as I am an analytical thinker and prefer to understand and have as many facts as possible before deciding. Some may find it annoying and for that I apologise. If I become annoying, please let me know as I am oft blind to it :) PS: My Dream plane would be a Zenith CH-801(or 750SD), Cessna 172 or even a Kit Fox for backcountry flying and following on your quote; I would rather be flying a KR-2 than dreaming of an 801 (or South African alternative, the Ventura) :) I am also a Skydiver and started flying there :) Regards שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם (Shalom aleichem) Michael L Griffin mileg...@gmail.com Cel : +27 83 462 0462 Please consider the environment before printing this email _______________________________________________ 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
