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10-13-2006 | 01:57 PM

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Charlie P.

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RE: Then how can I install my engine?

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This would also go for drilling slightly undersized and using sheet-metal screws. Another no-no.

And yet both TopFlite and Great Planes (same company now?) instruct this as the method of attachment in at least three kits of theirs: Easy Sport 40, Contender 60, Ultimate 40, and a handful of their ARFs (but that's no surprise as it means less hardware). I had a well campaigned Big Stik 40 with an OS FS70II screwed to the mount. The largest piece of the engine body was still screwed to the mount after a midair and lawn-dart into a rock.

May not be the best method, but as they said at the Mig Plant: "Perfection is the enemy of good enough."

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