Gents, IMPORTANT

The foe of the modeler is the friend of the supplier.
“Fuel and oil on the wrong places”, in the engine bearers and under the covering.

First the bearers,

I do have to ”service” the fuel pressure controller so it was possible to make a picture of my way of mounting the engine on the bearers of my “Top?” Flite Taurus, that was also the reason for this post!.
The bottom of the engine room is closed, no nuts or whatever visible. The bearers and wood in the engine room is covered with two component epoxy.
The bolt heads are soldered on a metal plate, on bottom side of the bearers, and glued, with white glue, in the drilled holes of the bearers. The engine is mounted on two glass reinforced plates that are also glued on the top side of the bearers with epoxy, see post 707.

In case of a broken bolt I can remove them with a solder iron, that’s the reason to use white glue!.

I did remove the thread of the top of the bolts. for easy mounting of the nuts.
Each bolt has a ring-nut-lock ring-nut combination to mount the engine, see the first picture.
With this way of mounting never any engine will leave, unwanted, the room.

I use MVVS 10 CC and OS Max 61 FX, they do have the same positions of mounting holes.
After 6 years and after the overhauling, the engine room is still “as new”.

The tank compartment is painted several times and I drilled a 3 mm, 1/8” drain hole on lowest point to detect any leakage of the tank. See second picture.
(This is not a rearview mirror but the bottom of the tankcompartment!)


And now the covering,

Learn the “classic” story of the “Trojan Horse”.
I predict you, in the future you can buy model airplanes and some of them with kind of supplier friendly heat shrink covering, and these Trojan Horses are not from the Greek in that situation.
So you are warned,

Cees