I’m finally getting around to building the kit I purchased over year ago. The recommended engines are E16 and F15. I’m thinking of upgrading the engine mount to handle G engines which will require cutting the 100mm tube somewhere above above the height of the engines to insert an extra centering ring and to provide access for securely glueing the CRs to the tubes. I’ll need to provide a tube coupler here also. Hopefully this main tube splice can occur under the second wrap from the bottom to hide it.
In checking out the parts supplied I found the centering rings supplied for the engine mount tube were extremely loose-fitting in the 100mm tube. They basically fell thru the tube. Don’t know how anyone could secure these properly to the tube to take the stress of an E or F engine. I constructed new centering rings and they were almost 2mm larger in diameter than the kit supplied ones.
Just wondering if others found these CRs to be loose-fitting.
In checking out the parts supplied I found the centering rings supplied for the engine mount tube were extremely loose-fitting in the 100mm tube. They basically fell thru the tube. Don’t know how anyone could secure these properly to the tube to take the stress of an E or F engine. I constructed new centering rings and they were almost 2mm larger in diameter than the kit supplied ones.
Just wondering if others found these CRs to be loose-fitting.