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Building Tips and technical articles. => ARF'S => Topic started by: Chris Wellington on October 31, 2007, 12:57:33 PM

Title: Motor mounts
Post by: Chris Wellington on October 31, 2007, 12:57:33 PM

The poor quality of the bearers (mounts) is often mentioned re ARF/ARCs : what do you use to effect a fix (short of sawing off the nose.....)

Title: Re: Motor mounts
Post by: Alan Hahn on October 31, 2007, 01:10:01 PM

That's what some have done.
Other possibilities would be to add balsa filler blocks between the two bearers to tie them together. On my Arf (glow) Nobler, I tied the two bearers together by drilling through them (in the tank area) and gluing in two 1/8" bamboo skewers---these are pretty tough!

Title: Re: Motor mounts
Post by: Alan Hahn on November 01, 2007, 10:06:11 AM

I might mention on my Electric Nobler Arf version (second Nobler Arf), I just dremeled them away since there was no reason to keep them and they were getting in the way of my battery installation. Made a lot of dust. I tried chiseling them, but they are actually pretty tuff and I was afraid of breaking away the light ply and doing damage to the fuse.