X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [206.46.252.48] (HELO vms048pub.verizon.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0c3) with ESMTP id 740161 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:55:35 -0400 Received: from verizon.net ([71.98.167.202]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0INI004PJGCHKLJ2@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:55:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:55:28 -0400 From: Finn Lassen Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] RV in the woods In-reply-to: To: Rotary motors in aircraft Message-id: <433A2240.7030402@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=------------050701070709060305010006 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax; PROMO) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050701070709060305010006 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks, but I don't understand the thing about leaving paper on spars too long? I'm rather weary of old kits, and at this point I'm beginning to think that waiting a few years to afford a new kit may be the way to go. I paid $5,500 for the "half-done" RV-3 but had put a LOT more into it by the time I had purchased all the missing pieces. Correcting previous builders' mistakes can be expensive. Finn John Downing wrote: > Finn; Very happy that you are OK. There is an RV-4 near hear for > sale. It must be a 15 year old project. The quality is a little > crude and it has the old spars which would need replacing, as the > original builder left the paper on to long and then tried to sand off, > so I would assume these are junk. I don't know what the lady, husband > was 3rd owner and is now deceased, is asking for project, if you are > interested I can contact her. It is about 1100 miles up here in > Michigan. JohnD --------------050701070709060305010006 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks, but I don't understand the thing about leaving paper on spars too long?

I'm rather weary of old kits, and at this point I'm beginning to think that waiting a few years to afford a new kit may be the way to go. I paid $5,500 for the "half-done" RV-3 but had put a LOT more into it by the time I had purchased all the missing pieces. Correcting previous builders' mistakes can be expensive.

Finn

John Downing wrote:

Finn; Very happy that you are OK. There is an RV-4 near hear for sale. It must be a 15 year old project. The quality is a little crude and it has the old spars which would need replacing, as the original builder left the paper on to long and then tried to sand off, so I would assume these are junk. I don't know what the lady, husband was 3rd owner and is now deceased, is asking for project, if you are interested I can contact her. It is about 1100 miles up here in Michigan. JohnD

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