Icepoint Mount Mod

[Bill Glaze]

Yep.  Had that one figured.  Now I'm gonna have to figure out a way to 
use the Budd engine mount; this is too nice a piece to languish very 
long on my pegboard.  Jerry will come up with something; I'd bet a lot 
of money on it!

Bill Glaze

Robert Harden wrote:

> 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 <mailto:billglaze at triad.rr.com>
>     To: discussion at nsrca.org <mailto: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 <http://www.rcaerobats.net>
>>     rcaerobob at cox.net <mailto:rcaerobob at cox.net>
>
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