After all the great feedback from the kr club, and talking to a couple of
engineers I came up with only
one discovery, do nothing!
The "boat" is the best part of the kr design. I talked it over with a
structural engeneer, and let
him no what all your thoughts were as well, and he was quick to s
Mike Johnson wrote:
> After all the great feedback from the kr club, and talking to a couple of
> engineers I came up with only
> one discovery, do nothing!
As had been mentioned before, the finish work on that balsa or foam or
whatever composite surface would be a real chore compared to the si
Hi Mike,
What I did on my KR boat 15 years ago: I made the sides like plans call for
except longer and a little taller because I am tall. Once they were flipped
upside down on the work table ready for the bottom skin. I took a 1 inch thick
piece of Divyncell foam cut close to the bottom shape, l
There cannot be a solution when there is not a problem. But, if you
want it a bit bigger or wider, do so. The plans are good for guidance,
and innovation is one of the pleasures of building an airplane where not
every rivet hole is pre-defined.
Ron Freiberger
mail to ronandmar...@earthlink.net
One more thing I almost forgot, my sides are almost perpendicular to the
bottom, I do not have the slanted out side walls plus my seat back and firewall
are wider than the original KR2. My seat back is divinycell foam covered on
both sides with one layer of biaxial cloth, it is glassed in perman
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