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hey Guys. I feel the love!!

What I do to keep the plywood from splitting is after I drill it all out I soak the holes and edges with thin CA which soaks in and hardens it. What ends up happening then is the PVC lets go so then I take either a 1/8" ply and duplicate the mount and sandwich the fuselage in between them. The other thing that helps is to have a predrilled replacement in your flight box. Since I did that I have never broken the plywood at the field, and duct tape can hold the fuse together for that "one last round"

BTW: This month is the 20th anniversary of the publication of the RCM Construction article. My phone started ringing 11/8/1992 when the December 92 RCM issue hit the subscribers. it was almost 2 weeks later before i got a copy or three off the newstand

RE: Gremlin help
 

Thanks Mike. I guess a bit thicker mount would make sense. I will give this a shot.

Truer words have never been spoken. I am testing this theory currently.

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That thing must have been crazy with that Jett engine !

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I now mount all my gremlin motors this way. They have even serviced a lawn dart. I got tired of making mounts.

P.s. .46 work just fine

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It's all a trade off. The reason the original mount was that way was so it would break instead of the motor/crankcase in a hard crash. Let the plywood be the weakest part

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I've purchased many feet of the PVC pipe and made quite a few Gremlins the way I showed in the photographs and have never had a problem with the mount.

Coreman - I do like the idea of a "sandwitch" of plywood underneith the fuse. I'll try it next - if I start having problems. Thanks for the idea.


brnrbbr - It was a BEAST!! ...and noone wanted to "Play" with me...?


Mike