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What you don't want is a cantilevered load on those front cover ears
as the force could rip them off. Keep the square tubing in there as
close as possible.

Here is a modification of one of your pictures to illustrate what
I am talking about.

Feed the load right into the bottom of the square tube.

Paul Lamar

Thanks Paul,

I'll fabricate a mount that fixes that problem.  I'm thinking of
something like this.

Bob White

http://www.bob-white.com
N93BD - Rotary Powered BD-4

That looks real good. That should work great
assuming the drawing is a back view. If it is a top view not so fine.
It will still have too much leverage on the cover ears. The strut can
be angled forward to come up under the square tube. No problem.

For the new guys.
The beauty of this whole MM idea is the engine thrust line up or down
angle can be adjusted (assuming the use of left and right hand thread
ball joints) to optimize the  speed of the aircraft. This in effect is
a copy of the Questair Venture motor mount. It is common for the
Questair owners to adjust the thrust line using this method.

Paul Lamar

That's correct Paul, it is the back view.  I would like to generate
the nice 3-D views with Rhino, but it dosen't run on Linux :)

Bob White

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http://www.bob-white.com
N93BD - Rotary Powered BD-4

I save my old computers to run all my old software :) I am still using
DOS from time to time.

Speaking of Linux are you running UnixTree for Linux? Greatest file
manager ever invented IMHO. Without that it would take me twice as long
to manage this news letter.

Paul Lamar

I downloaded UnixTree after you mentioned it a while back and took a
look at it. I didn't dig into it too much, and so haven't used it.
Mostly I move around in a terminal, kind of like the old DOS days.  I
sometimes use Nautilus if I want a more windowey file manager.  I use
the Gnome desk top because a couple of years ago KDE blew up and
wouldn't run anymore.  I finally found the corrupted config files and
got KDE running again, but never really went back to it.

I have a laptop that I use for a few things that just have to have
Windows, like Flitesoft/Vista.  But I don't really want to do graphics
on it.

If you want to talk about saving computers, I still have an old CPM
system with two 8" floppy disks.  It does have a pretty thick coat of
dust on it though.  I can still remember how marvelous it was to be able
to put 500K on each disk and I had a FULL 64K or RAM!  Best of all, it
booted up in about 1 second.

BTY, for anyone who wants to get started with Linux, I reccomend
Mandrake.  I've had a pretty high success rate with it for getting
everything working without a lot of extra bother.

Bob White

http://www.bob-white.com
N93BD - Rotary Powered BD-4

 
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