Creative Nose Ring Mounting?

[Anthony Romano]

Never tried but the a variation on the foam cup idea is in Piedmonts 
instructions for the Focus. They used two crossed pieces of 1/32" ply.

Anthony

>From: Norman Ellis <nxmxellis at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
>To: discussion at nsrca.org
>Subject: Re: Creative Nose Ring Mounting?
>Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:16:36 -0700 (PDT)
>
>This is in the idea category, not solution since I
>haven't done it yet. I've been thinking of a tripod or
>tetrapod of CF tubes, 4-40 studs black CAed into the
>ends, aluminum tube collar at each end to discourage
>splitting; nose-ring mounting plate nibbled out from
>light gauge aluminum sheet, which is cut to triangular
>or square outline, with tabs at the corners or apices,
>tabs bent  perpendicular to the axis of the tube,
>drilled out for the 4-40 studs to slip through,
>fastened with nuts & lockwashers.
>
>Firewall anchor points would be tee-nuts fastened to
>small (maybe 5/8" square) piece of plywood, plywood
>epoxied to sort of a shim/foot piece of probably pine,
>cut from end of a 5/8" sq stick, angle cut to match
>axis of CF tube to firewall.  Probably mix cabosil
>into epoxy when fixing feet to firewall, just to keep
>it from creeping out while curing. Maybe tack in a
>couple brads to keep the feet from spreading.
>
>Trouble with putting this on an ARF is it would be a
>lot easier to do with a loose firewall before it's
>mounted on the model. I suppose you could jig up the
>fuselage to fix the firewall in a horizontal plane.
>That begins to sound like a lot of work. I'd like to
>know if a simpler solution is available. --Norm Ellis
>
>
> > From: Bob Pastorello
> > To: NSRCA
> > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 11:03 PM
> > Subject: Creative Nose Ring Mounting?
> >
> >
> > Hoping there's someone out here with a creative
> > solution to a pesky
> > problem.... on my own rotational mount, with the OS
> > 1.60, I think I need to install a
> > nose ring....Arresti is a "cowling" nose, so can't
> > go there....don't want to
> > replace cowling with built up wooden assy.
> >     Any ideas for making some kind of tripod/post
> > affair that would attach to
> > the firewall ( I have area of firewall around the
> > mount that is accessible on
> > all sides) to mount the nose ring to???
> >
> > Any ideas or solutions would be much appreciated!
> >
>
>
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