Not meaning to hijack the thread, but I have a set of aluminum (grove?) gear from a KR 1 that I would part with. JImChuk
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 2:20 PM Jeff Scott <jscott.pla...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > Sent: Monday, April 12, 2021 at 10:30 AM > > From: "costewart23" <costewar...@frontier.com> > > To: "KRnet" <krnet@list.krnet.org> > > Subject: KR>Composite Landing Gear Legs > > > > Hi guys, does anyone remember a few years back the guy who made his own > composite gear legs, I remember he had it on his page how he did it. Wooden > mold, lined with duct tape, layups and glass, I just cant find anything > now. Was probably about 20 years ago now Thanks, Chris KR-1XLN2488CSent > from my U.S.Cellular© Smartphone > > ________________________________ > > Yes. That was Mike Mimms when he was building the Sky Pig some 25 years > ago. He built the legs with all unidirectional glass. There area a few > pictures of that plane from the 2016 KR Gathering on John Bouyea's > KRGathering.net web site from when Brad Stone owned it. The plane has > changed hands a couple times since then and to the best of my knowledge it > not currently flying. < > https://www.krgathering.net/images/Gathering2016/LarryHowell/IMG_2484.JPG> > Follow the links from KRGathering.net to past gatherings, to 2016 in Mt > Vernon, then look for N2644C. However, I don't know if the legs on the > plane are the ones Mike laid up, or if he later bought a set of the Grumman > legs and cut them down. Additionally, Mike didn't complete the plane. He > sold the project, and most of us never saw it again until Brad showed up in > it at the Gathering in 2016. > > Jeff Scott > Arkansas Ozarks > ________________________________ > -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -Change list delivery options at > https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board > -Search recent KRnet Archives at > https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ > -Search <https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/-Search> > John Boyea's decades of archive at > https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/ ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Boyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
