Bummer that you are doing that on Monday. I have a work meeting that day. My vacation starts Tuesday and I am looking forward to going to Oshkosh as soon as I can after that. I am very tired of the last year and a half. And I am looking very forward to getting back into aviation. So if there is a meet up planned at Oshkosh for the KR guys, let me know.
Ray_pilot New Orleans 504-616-9098 On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 6:11 PM Mark Langford <m...@n56ml.com> wrote: > We've received a date for the "KR Building and Flying" forum date and > time at Oshkosh, Monday, July 26 at 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM. I'm not sure > what the topics will be yet, but am open to suggestions. After the > forum, we'll adjourn to the flightline where we'll park our KRs, which > will be out front of Homebuilders Headquarters. We hope to see y'all > there. > > I was worried that I might miss OSH as the exhaust system on the KR2 > disintegrated and I was facing building another one from scratch. But > thanks to Marc Baca and Doug Pearce, I now have a serviceable > replacement, probably built from the same fixture. Mike Sylvester flew > up today and assisted with the installation, which was a two man job due > to the extra width of my VW engine. Thanks Mike! > > While the exhaust was off I did a valve job, replacing exhaust guides, > recutting the valve seats, and replacing the exhaust valves, as well as > the pistons and cylinders (just for good measure). I had 250 hours on > the Revmaster heads since they were installed, and they were leaking > pretty badly between the valves and seats, perhaps due to lead deposits. > It still ran great, but 116 psi compression numbers (down from 158 > previously) had me concerned, even before the exhaust system failed. I > plan to run Decalin in the fuel to reduce the lead deposits (Aircraft > Spruce sells it). We'll see how that goes. Still, 250 hours is a > record between valve jobs for me, so I'm already impressed with the > Revmaster heads. > -- > Mark Langford > m...@n56ml.com > http://www.n56ml.com > Huntsville, AL > ________________________________ > -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 Bouyea'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 Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
