ORIGINAL: Jack211
Desmobob, now THAT'S a test motor mount I can understand. I knew I liked you for some reason. By the way, is that a standard carpenter's hammer, 480 grams, or can you get away cheap, with a ballpeen hammer, 240 grams, or maybe a brick (I don't know the weight); Bill will know)? 8 penny nails or 10 penny? I need to know.
Jack
Whatever hammer is closest is always the best hammer! If there's more than one within reach, the biggest one's clearly best. I like the one I got for $1.97 at the 'Mart. It has an out-of-square, slightly convex face that automatically bends the nails over for you by the third or fourth whack.
If your thumbnail is blackened and your thumb swollen from mounting engines to the test rail, you have an excuse for pulling hard "up" during that low, full-throttle inverted pass.... "Must be nerve damage! I can't control my d*mn thumb!"
Any nail that fits through the engine mount holes will work. Screws, too! My father was not a very mechanical kind of guy. I always remember him putting up some shelves in the garage when I was a kid. He had an old coffee can full of assorted nails, screws, bolts, etc. If he didn't have a nail that looked right, he didn't have any problem pounding in a wood screw instead. [X(]
Good flying,
desmobob