Who knows what method of painting Pete Brautigam used on that beautiful bird he
built.?
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fly it again until I had an
Ellison carb on it, which is not a gravity feed carb, and is pretty
normal and predictable by comparison.
Don't do what I did.bring a trailer with you if you buy an airplane
that's been sitting and the owner can't demonstrate full takeoff power
Just booked the Drury. Easy peasy.
See you guys in 32 days!
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 6:31 PM Larry Flesner via KRnet <
krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote:
>
> On 7/24/2024 5:02 PM, Jeff Scott wrote:
> > The discou
Let’s reiterate on this. I have done both high speed taxi tests with wings on
and wings off. If you are doing this wings off, remember that the stub wings
create enough lift to pull you off the runway without ailerons. Be careful out
there.
Mark Jones
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Rich Parker wrote:
<< I believe Joe is going to deliver the ashes to Mark Langford to bring
to the gathering as I am not able to attend. >>
Yes, I talked to Joe a few weeks ago, and assured him Dave's ashes would
see a lot of KR air time at the KR Gathering. There are a l
In "KR Wheel Fire Write Up" Larry Flesner wrote:
>>With Mark having more than 1000 hours of KR time and surviving 3 off
airport landings (that he has told us about), no one is going to
question his ability to fly a KR..<<
It's actually about 1800 KR hours, bu
t" red flashing LED in front of my
face and the pulsing beeper, I'd probably not have noticed the oil
pressure gauge was reading zero until the prop stopped, which it did
during rollout!
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cables
are too long and need to be shortened an inch or two. Personally I would not
exclude high speed taxis from the testing phase.
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> On Jul 30, 2024, at 1:24 AM, MS wrote:
>
>
> There's n
full size hangar. I’m in a gyrocopter hangar right now. Probably won’t get a full sized hangar until January. Some are being built that I’m on the list for. Hangars here have an average of a four to five year wait list. I’ve been on the lists over four years Mark JonesOldsmar, FlN771MJ “WunderBird
Jeff Scott wrote:
>> I'm sure that if there is interest, Mark and I could likely stand up
front and do an engine Q&A as we have done a few times in the past.
(Hope Mark doesn't mind me volunteering him!)<<
Sure, I can talk all day about Corvair and VW engines. A
Mark Jones wrote:
>>67 days to go till the Gathering.<<
And see https://www.krgathering.net/ to register, on the left in
blue "register to attend" . Nothing binding, no cost, just an
indicator of who might be there and when. Thanks to John Bouyea for
running thi
67 days to go till the Gathering.
11 people registered to attend Really? Can't we do better than that?
Only 7 planes so far? And that is if I get WonderBird through the test
flight stage before the gathering.
Please get registered asap.
Mark Jones (N771MJ)
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with the next step?”
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I have the A-700, and I think it’s worth it. I previously used something
without a lock but it was too easy to move unintentionally, and didn’t always
stay where I put it.
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As a follow up to my Lipo battery issue:
I installed an Odyssey agm PC680 yesterday and ran the engine almost an hour
with no issues.
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I agree. I ordered my Odyssey yesterday and it arrived today. Glad this happened on the ground and not in the air. Mark JonesOldsmar, FlN771MJ “WunderBird”www.flykr2s.comflyk...@gmail.comOn Jun 13, 2024, at 2:14 PM, shafferj45...@twc.com wrote:Hi Mark. I am using an Odyssey Battery, in my KR. A
Yep, that's right. For you older guys like me you will remember these
emails from when we were first time builders. There ARE ONLY 91 days till
the Gathering.
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the BMS somehow disable the entire system? I am feeling like Larry Flesner
said. I think I too will only fly with AGM batteries. Seems this BMS in
Lipo batteries is a source of failure we do not need.
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Mine are the 40108. The reason I’m asking is that one of the two has failed and I need to replace it. The testing phase after airworthiness certification has found this problem and also some brake issues so I’m installing new brake masters. Mark JonesOldsmar, FlN771MJ “WunderBird
ift owner flight instructor to work me in to his schedule and
fly around with me first for some reminders of the nuances of flying the
much larger retractable Swift. And I'm working daily on Joe's Corvair
powered KR2S N357CJ to get it flying again ASAP.
Mark Langford
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Mark Jones wrote:
"Just curious guys, has anyone found better and quieter fuel pumps than the
Facet."
Facet also makes a cylindrical rotary pump, if it bothers you that
much. I've had one in some incarnation of one of my KR or cars, and
they are pretty quiet by comparison
Just curious guys, has anyone found better and quieter fuel pumps than the
Facet.
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Learn something every day.
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> On May 15, 2024, at 5:05 PM, Larry Flesner via KRnet
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On 5/15/2024 3:26 PM, Mark Jones via KRnet wrote:
>> Some batteries are now
off ( by mistake)
and all of a sudden I had no battery power. Ten seconds later it came back up
but needed charging. Slapped a lipo smart charger on there and it’s good as
new.
Mark Jones
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> On May 15, 2024, at 3:40 PM, Ro
My KR2S became a real airplane today. She has her airworthiness certificate!!!
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Tomorrow is the big day for my airworthiness inspection on WunderBird. Here
she is sitting in the hangar waiting on the DAR.
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After I get the Swift flying I'll
start working on N357CJ that Joe Horton graciously sold me, and it'll
become my main plane.
Being without an airplane is kind of like being without a girl friend or
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or several versions of
the airfoil templates, including the one you mentioned, unless I'm
missing something. Free download, just take to Kinko's or the local
printing store and have them printed full size.
I'm headed out on a trip for the rest of the day.
Mark Langford
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For those following WunderBird, the airworthiness inspection has been
postponed.
A few issues popped up that I had to resolve which caused the delay.
I am requesting May 13th from the DAR. He has not confirmed yet.
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Steve Loebs wrote:
>>And that brings me to my question for Mark or anyone else that has
the answer. I found your page, Mark,
http://www.krnet.org/as504x/design.html and there is some great info
there. Do you or anyone else have the raw data from the wind tunnel
tests? Is that somethin
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details on that. It's a very simple welded up pivot structure, with no
crazy tubing bender required, and far less likely to fail that the
previous incarnation, plus it has some damping.
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st a
dose of conservatism for the plans.
One item to note about FreeBird is performance specs. Somebody pointed
out to me a few months ago that "as published", FreeBird would not meet
the MOSAIC rules so that a "Sport Pilot" could fly it. For that reason,
the specs will
if
they were folding), and if any others have good plans for how that's
done on KRs or any other plane, it might be a good addition to the
FreeBird plans.
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Hello everyone I'm a new member I'm an old Marine Corps jet mech from the
early '70s I used to work on F-4s in the Marine corps. Since getting out
I've always been interested in aircraft. I don't fly I just collect
memorabilia and keep it around my shop. I recently picked up a kr-2 from an
estate s
What a strange feeling with my plane gone from the garage. It’s the second
time I have experienced this feeling. Kind of like having a kid move out. Now
Karen can park her car back in the garage.
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anyway. I'll get it back together eventually. Meanwhile,
back to the hangar to finish building a work bench addition.using
TORX head screws!
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Good suggestion Larry. Thanks
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> On Mar 15, 2024, at 11:47 AM, Larry Flesner via KRnet
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>
>
> On 3/15/2024 10:28 AM, mark jones via KRnet wrote:
>> N771MJ is scheduled
N771MJ is scheduled for April 22 airworthiness inspection.
YeeeH
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ots of places
and owners in between.
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back to the airport safely. So, this tells me that the Corvair
engine and the Ellison throttle body will suck enough fuel on their own to
keep the engine running. You may not be as lucky as I was!!!
Mark Jones (N771MJ)
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 2:11 PM
n't need is a bunch of conversations
between seller and buyer online, so once a connection is established,
please take it "off-line".
Thanks,
Mark Langford
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On 3/11/2024 5:09 PM, Edwa
om
N891JF (with new exhaust valves and reground valve seats) and am headed
to the airport to hopefully start reassembling the engine case halves
with crank and cam.
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On 3/3/2024 1:58 AM, Chris Prata via KRnet wrote:
this is interest
less you might
squirt some oil onto those gears via the distributor
hole in the case?? Again, I'm not that up on VWs.
OR could be camshaft end play clunking
from the same source pressure when turning
the crank. Doubtful the crank is the noise
source but when the gears have slop, just
Date: Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: KRnet> play day
To: KRnet
Cc: Larry Flesner
I love the crab Zach drew.
Mark Jones
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> On Feb 25, 2024, at 3:59 PM, Larry Flesner via KRnet
wrote:
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>
>
> Z
Mark,
It’s not April Fools day so I have a gut feeling your wife is tried of you
being the airport all the time. That sound was her out side hitting two
pieces of metal together hoping you would give up and come home 😀
Mark Jones
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flyk
Mark,It’s not April Fools day so I have a gut feeling your wife is tried of you being the airport all the time. That sound was her out side hitting two pieces of metal together hoping you would give up and come home 😀Mark JonesOldsmar, FlN771MJ “WunderBird” www.flykr2s.comflyk...@gmail.comOn Feb
I love the crab Zach drew.
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> On Feb 25, 2024, at 3:59 PM, Larry Flesner via KRnet
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> Zach is out playing again today in his favorite toy. Can you guess what he
> added
oo! Note that the distributor and
drive gear are removed, just so I could get a better look at the brass
distributor drive helical gear on the crank, which appeared secured and
in one piece, and because it eliminated those two parts as a source of
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drawings and lots of photos there.
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Hey Guys,
WunderBird is almost ready for airworthiness inspection. Got that
YeeeHaaa feeling.
But I do have a question, how much do your aileron weights weigh? I know no
one's will be the same. Mine came in at 2lbs.
Thanks
Mark Jones (N771MJ)
Oldsmar, FL
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Has the date been set for the 2024 Gathering?
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same thickness, and that's completely
understandable.
Also, I should point out that the very outer wingtip (past the spars) is
just foam, sanded to shape using the complete outer wings skins as a
sanding guide., and then fiberglassed (or carbon fibered, in my case).
See http://www.n56ml.c
ize
human beings, newer composite technology, alternative construction
techniques, and larger engines, while making plans freely available for
download, like FreeBird. We're not taking money out of anybody's
pocket, either way you look at it, and nobody is profiting from the
effort..
off" of the plans version, but a serious effort at filling in the
blanks such as materials, sources, best practices, etc. Let me know if
you'd like to tackle on of these chapters.
Thanks,
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), so I haven't been keeping it a secret. Looking through it just now,
there are some broken links I need to fix and some other changes I could
make, and I'll try to get the big ones, but I'm swamped at the moment
with other airport problems that are a lot
_newsletter.pdf as a single file .
These are "text searchable", and there are a LOT of good ideas and
various ways that folks tried over the years, and the results of those
efforts. Also a good lesson on KR history.
See http://www.krnet.org/newsletter/kr_newsletter.pdf
Mark Lan
.org/krs/kr100/ , so the disinformation is my fault, but
I was going on what I was told. I'm not even sure I had N56ML flying
yet when I wrote it. I'll probably edit it page to reflect my comments
above.and my 2000 hours of flying KRs now, so I should be
complaining to my
Hi Guys,
Check out these plenums:
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Check out these plenums. Mark JonesOldsmar, FlN771MJ “WunderBird”www.flykr2s.comflyk...@gmail.comOn Sep 20, 2023, at 12:13 AM, Zachary Martine via KRnet wrote:Does anyone know if there is any details that Robert had made about the aluminum plenums for his O-200? They seem like they'd be
Hi guys,
Please send photos to all of us unlucky KR nuts that were not able to make
it this year.
Did N886MJ show up?
Thanks
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So sorry I could not make it this year.
Please send photos of the planes.
Thanks
Mark Jones
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> On Sep 16, 2023, at 8:40 AM, Jeff Scott via KRnet
> wrote:
>
>
> Well kids, If you are sitting at home today,
ork as well. OSH
would be the perfect place for to look for something like that (on the
flight line), and maybe you've done that, or perhaps ask on the
"Homebuilt Aircraft" forum (from a "burner" email account).
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To throw some more math in:
Your "actual speed" (120) vs. "theoretical speed" (132) would be
120/132=0.9090909 or 91% efficiency (over simplification): not too bad.
Mark W
N952MW (res)
On 8/27/2023 10:28 PM, Phillip Matheson via KRnet wrote:
I had the tach overhauled
new ones out there, please let me know and I'll add them..which
will also give me some incentive to delete the dead links while I'm in
there!
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and nuts are pretty tight, but again, I
don't think it matters. The joint is apparently "good enough for KR" work.
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er pole and fried everything with an Ethernet cable plugged into it,
so yet another complication! Apparently I have not been "living right".
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. Mark JonesOldsmar, FlN771MJ “WunderBird”www.flykr2s.comflyk...@gmail.comOn Aug 17, 2023, at 3:02 PM, Sid Wood wrote:
I had Falcon subbed to Global Aerospace for $1M liability and $20,000 hull
coverage on my KR-2 N6242, premium $1,100 per year. That included first
flight coverage with the
he ground if the screws aren't really tight.
See the bottom of http://www.n56ml.com/kgear.html
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, especially Larry and
Gwen Howell. And thanks to Rob for handling the KR Forum with only two
hours notice.
Please don't reply to this message, as KRnet already has enough flotsam
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actually works! It
took the CorvAircraft world a while to catch up, but a similar solution
has ended broken crankshafts in flying Corvair engines also.
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ttle something about aircraft crankshafts, and how and why
they fail. Please take my advice on this and don't cheap out. It could
cost you your airplane, and your life.
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l the from EMPI
directly, and others sell them as well. I bought my first pair at a
local Advance Auto, even.
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e will be more than one KR there this year. What day do
you plan to arrive?
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general.
The KR "Builders and Pilots" Forum will be at Forum Stage 3 at 11:30 on
Monday July 24th. After the forum we'll wander to the flightline for KR
show and tell and to answer questions that might arise.
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Does anyone know of a way to use an existing KT-76A transponder as an ABS-B
OUT system?
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course, a very good job of aligning the
gear and rigging the tailwheel by a very meticulous builder. Thanks
for the PIREP
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Hi Mark, putting KR2 up for sale
I bought me a KR2S 290
Can you Help
thanks
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Well build KR2, only taxied never flow, Has very smooth 2300
o don't fly around with an aft CGbad things happen! See
http://www.n56ml.com/wb/index.html for my scary story on that. A CG 2"
aft of the CG limit came very close to killing me on takeoff
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matches your spark plug thread size, likely
14mm, but could be 10mm. Then keep adjusting the stop to narrow down
the range around TDC, then mark the outer edge of the prop hub at the
vertical seam of the crankcase as center, if you don't have a spinner
yet) to define exactly where TDC i
180 degrees and check the next, etc.
Obviously, you need to mark TDC on the spinner backplate or somewhere
else visible, so it's easy to do the next time too.
And all of this is meaningless if you don't know how the cylinders are
numbered on the actual engine. The one closest
-2, although they are hard to come by,
and I believe Rotec may make something similar for the VW. There are
other options as wellnot still in production, but floating around
out there.
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basics are therespark and compression. Fuel is another matter,
especially since you are talking POSa.
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o shorter pieces and "scarfing" them together mid
fuselage somewhere, using T-88 epoxy or something similar.
Mark Langford
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. This are the
things that make us builders say we actually built two planes to make one good
one.
Mark Jones
Oldsmar, Fl
N771MJ “WunderBird”
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Chet:
Try this link to Amazon for composite construction for aircraft:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0964282844/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
There is a lot of useful info for any composite aviation construction.
Mark W (N952MW res)
On 5/9/2023 3:17 PM, MS wrote
x27;s involved. And best of
all, you don't have to reinvent the wheel like lots of us did. Let us
know how it goes, and take lots of photos for the on-line manual! Where
there's a will, there's a way.
For the newbies, the FreeBird website is at http://www.freebirdplans.org/
I'
he
server based on your selection. It took me a while to get used to that
and I am thinking about going back to Outlook and the MS Office Suite,
but haven't decided yet.
Mark W
(N952MW res.)
On 4/29/2023 7:25 AM, Flesner via KRnet wrote:
On 4/28/2023 10:18 PM, G R Pickett via KRnet wro
Steve Loebs wrote:
>>Mark, what is the cost comparison of the zero SMOH O-200 vs the
rebuilt Corvair 2850 with the SPA 5th bearing / billet crankshaft combo? <<
You should probably call SPA and ask that question. I've have lots of
other things I need to get done. Let us k
se, or even know what it should be. Maybe excess
water, considering it was coming through the primer ports (although they
do have a pretty fine orifice in them). Just my experience. It did
what I wanted it to do, and that's all I asked of it.
Mark Langford
m...@n56ml.com
http://www.
KR with a lightweight pilot doesn't hurt either, I guess
Mark Langford
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ing the main tank
in it with a home-built ethanol- tolerant tank using vinylester epoxy.
See enclosed photo of Sport Performance Aircraft's "Gen2" fifth bearing
on my soon-to-be-flying 3100cc Corvair engine.
Mark Langford
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Huntsville, AL
Mar
Worked fine for me. Both in Mike's e-mail below and Mark's original post.
Mark W
N952MW (res)
On 4/19/2023 1:44 PM, MS wrote:
> "For the "crankshaft odyssey" mentioned above, see
http://www.n56ml.com/corvair/crankshaft/
<http://www.n56ml.com/corvair/crankshaft/
Steve Loebs via KRnet wrote:
>>Mark L, I just read your page on your crankshaft odyssey. Are you,
and any others using Corvair engines, still satisfied that a new billet
crankshaft with good fillet radii (along with the 5th bearing and prop
indexing) will eliminate the issue of
JMHO.
On 4/18/2023 10:59 PM, Steve Loebs via KRnet wrote:
Mark L, I just read your page on your crankshaft odyssey. Are you, and
any others using Corvair engines, still satisfied that a new billet
crankshaft with good fillet radii (along with the 5th bearing and prop
indexing) will eliminate th
Rick Cochenet wrote: What the hell is a Hapi engine???
Please go to www.google.com and key in "HAPI engine", and then you'll know.
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ed an "ACCessory" position in an airplane, but just
because it's there, doesn't mean you have to use it.
See http://www.n56ml.com/electrical/index.html for details of N56ML's
wiring, including a "schematic" of sorts that will likely answer a lot
of your question
ite, stiff
burlap! Jim Faughn's KR2 is made of that, so I get to see some every
time I repair a composite piece of it!
Mark Langford
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Huntsville, AL
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