[NSRCA-dist8] Soft Mount

[Steve Sterling]

I sure has been quite lately-- I agree.
I used something close to this for many years. Better than a hard-mount 
as far as pounding the airframe is concerned.

Like you, I didn't use a nose ring. Nose Rings are tough on a Focus.

I had two problems with my setup.  1st-- it allowed the engine to shift 
off-angle at least a degree, maybe more, with hard power applied. This 
is with a 160-size engine. I could tighten it up to reduce the shift, 
but then I lost dampening. 2nd-- it really didn't have enough dampening, 
especially when I had it tightened, and I kept losing servos from vibration.

So I finally bit the bullet and put in a Budd Engineering soft mount, 
with a nose ring 2 years ago. Nose ring is on extension arm from the 
firewall. Not optimal and heavy, but better as to both dampening and 
axis shift.

J N Hiller wrote:
> Hello dist-8!
> I never see anything here and ran across the attached drawing of the 'Poor
> Mans Soft Mount' I am using in my Option-120 rev-C airplane. I now have a
> season of trouble free service with it. The grommets are 40 dr and the
> spacers are probably a little shorter than what is shown on the drawing. The
> grommets need to be pinched a little to prevent any relative movement which
> wares the rubber (actually neoprene). The rev-B airplane initially used a
> Dave Brown mount attached with 4 grommets without a nose ring support.
> Is anyone out there?
> Jim
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