Ah crap. The ingenious rubber motor mount doesn’t work. Not for lack of trying, but it appears the clearance between the motor and the mount is too tight to fit a rubber band (click for larger image):
The motor is fouled by the rubber bands and the prop doesn’t swing freely, so it’s a no go. I’m sure I could find a flat rubber band or o-ring that might fit, but the tension may not be correct, so I don’t think the plan is going to work. So for now I will land gingerly with the best prop location I can manage, and if I break another mount then it’s back to the landing gear.
Foiled Again!
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
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Jeez, that’s the sum total of your motor mount? A stick and a couple of screws? I’m surprised the stick doesn’t fail instead of the motor mount myself.
You can yank pretty darn hard on a stick and it will not break. I guess the mounting system is designed for the standard load, which is a smooth, parallel pulling load directly along the axis of the motor. The failure happens when the motor is tilted forward when the prop hit the ground – not what the whole setup is designed to handle.
Dude. Just look at teh ads on your own site! I just visited http://www.overlyhautz.com/ for a laugh… break one of THOSE puppies, I dare ya…
Hell yeah, one of those puppies should do the trick. How much is 180 Watts in horsepower then?