This effort to source gear legs fits right in with the main topic of
this year's OSH KR Forum, which is the inability to source KR specific
parts. The question of where to get certain KR parts (not to mention
plans) is a recurring theme, and it's becoming clear that most of these
are no longer available. For that reason, I think the prudent course
is for KRnet list members to step up to the plate and solve this, one
person at a time.
One example is nose gear. The nose-gear most folks have used for years
is unobtainable, and honestly, has had failures resulting in dead props
and cowlings (usually due to hard landings). Robert Pesak came up with
his own design, which consists of a fiberglass spring and some rubber
dampers. Fabrication is a DIY job, not requiring CNC tubing benders,
but a simple welder (if I recall correctly) and some attachment points
to the engine mount. Robert and I plan to get together and draw up the
details in the next few weeks, and post the drawings on KRnet for others
to replicate. If somebody wants to make those and sell them to others
(if Robert's not interested), problem solved! There are many more
examples, such as control sticks, flap handles, landing gear legs or
brackets, and one that Jeff Lang mentioned at OSH, the phenolic drive
pucks that go between the generator and crankshaft on a certain VW
implementation (I forget which one). There's a large number of such
projects, and I think we should do our best to create detailed drawings
to post on www.krnet.org, and interested DIY guys could make (or have
made) several of each so that they are ready to sell and ship to other
KR builders. This is exactly the same system that the early KR
Newsletter spawned, with ads in each issue for these kinds of components.
So please give some thought to what you might need or can make to sell
to other builders, so we can all continue to find the special parts that
we all need to finish up our planes.
Thanks....
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Mark Langford
m...@n56ml.com
http://www.n56ml.com
Huntsville, AL
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