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Offline proparc

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Re: Worlds Funniest Test Stand
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2020, 02:53:38 PM »
  I just last week made a new one out of an ironing board  waist high it's perfect.

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Re: Worlds Funniest Test Stand
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2020, 03:36:45 PM »
I clamp mine to a Harbor Freight fold up saw horse. D>K
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Re: Worlds Funniest Test Stand
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2020, 04:45:15 AM »
Am I missing something here - what is funny? Obviously a cast iron garden chair isn't an ideal mount but its hardly going to take off, is it!
And a fold up work / saw horse has been used by many, the world over, since the 70's introduction for this very purpose. Now funny / peculiar / strange was a guy at a swap meet that had his engine stand G clamped to a fold up deck chair - so lightweight it could have taken off!

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Re: Worlds Funniest Test Stand
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2020, 06:29:31 AM »
Am I missing something here - what is funny? Obviously a cast iron garden chair isn't an ideal mount but its hardly going to take off, is it!
And a fold up work / saw horse has been used by many, the world over, since the 70's introduction for this very purpose. Now funny / peculiar / strange was a guy at a swap meet that had his engine stand G clamped to a fold up deck chair - so lightweight it could have taken off!

The lawn garden fixture behind it for weight. ST 2300's are pretty powerful.  :)
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Re: Worlds Funniest Test Stand
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2020, 07:07:00 AM »
In our last house we had a walkout basement. It was winter and I wanted to run a Fox 35 I'd bought on E bay before I drilled holes to mount it on a Flite Streak. The engine ran fine and after two tanks of 5%/28% castor I looked at the door that had swung partially closed blocking the exhaust to the outdoors. There was nothing funny about the sawhorse with the two 1/2" x 1/2" oak strips mounted to it but in the cold air the door was covered with a runny syrup that still partially coated the door when we moved.

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Re: Worlds Funniest Test Stand
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2020, 07:31:50 AM »
it but in the cold air the door was covered with a runny syrup that still partially coated the door when we moved.

Steve

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