Some great ideas.

On Vibration:

Isolate the tank: Make sure that the tank is isolated from the stand with foam. Without it - kinda cool visuals but not very good for a nice fuel flow to the engine.

Good clamps. 2-strokes are pretty smooth with ignition once per rotation while 4-strokes are pretty rough running. Make sure that clamps are very tight. My Saito 100 kicked 1 of 2 clamps off of my test bench clamped to an engine run-in picnic table at our field - yea, the clamps are pretty big - just didn't give it that last "dent the wood a bit" turn. Thinking about it - if the hardwood stand had some "bite" the clamp probably would not have vibrated loose. Glad that I had a Rx/Bat/Servo arrangement for controlling the engine with a throttle kill switch enabled on the radio.


pic 1/6 - unknown stand on the market
pic 7/10 - my stand from junk around the shop. Each engine has its own 1/4"ply mounting plate.