Icepoint Mount Mod

[Robert Harden]

Bill,

I have the Focus II and installed the Hyde Mount with the integral nose ring;  the installation looks good.  I wouldn't try installing a nose ring to that removable cowl as the cowl couldn't handle the stresses.

Bob Harden
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Glaze 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 9:22 AM
  Subject: Re: Icepoint Mount Mod


  Bob:  
  I see the problem with the Icepoint.  Can sure be frustrating.  I've also been wondering:  
  I just got a new Jerry Budd engine mount.  Excellent job, well thought out.  Jerry, however, calls for a nose ring with the mount.  How are the guys handling a nose ring with a removable cowling, like the Focus?  Seems to me as if the cowl would tear loose from the fuselage if subjected to the stress/vibration of a nose ring.   I've had perfect satisfaction from a Dave Brown solid mount, (cost the princely sum of $6) on my focus 1, but I've still been thinking of retrofitting my Focus 2 before it's first flight.
  How would you handle it? 

  Bill Glaze


  Bob Pastorello wrote:

    In case there are any of you like me, who aren't at a contest (and should be), and aren't flying (because we have nothing ready).... here's the tale of tribulation on how much fun it is to retrofit a flat firewall that is spaced way farther than it should be....
    http://www.rcaerobats.net/Icepoint/Icepoint_Main.htm

    Bob Pastorello
    www.rcaerobats.net
    rcaerobob at cox.net
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