flyintexan

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With the rudder tray mounted up I moved on to mounting the Neu motor and esc. I must thank my good friend Richard for his help in figuring out the best way to get the job done. The kit included two round discs that appear to fit back to back and are marked with a centerline offset for thrust. We decided to cut and fit the front facing disc roughly to handle the budd mount. We glued the two discs together and drilled a hole through the blank disc (centered) for the Neu prop shaft. We put the shaft and prop washer through and used an old spinner backplate to draw it up snug inside the nose. This was not going to necessarily keep the front firewall parallel to the nose so we assembled a set of ply washers to go between the back of the spinner backplate and the firewall face. The height of the stack of washers was just enough to let the firewall touch the inside of the nose but not wedge. This took plenty of sanding on the laminated discs to get the fit just right. The spinner backplate/shaft/firewall was taped to the nose so I would not move and from the rear of the firewall I applied hysol epoxy around the firewall disc. I let it cure and the next morning applied another small bead of hysol, this time around the front edge of the firewall. The rear disc was then dremeled out to match the front facing disc. I still needed 3/8" thick spacers to get the Neu to the right distance from the nose face....clear as mud right?.. Anyway, I'm quite happy with the final results. With the motor front mounted I fitted the rear supports and glued those in. BTW, the screws in the front pic were temporary...didn't have the 6-32 SHCS in the length I needed.