Let's get started!

Well, da plane has been gutted! I forgot about all of the previous work that was done on this plane. Good grief. The poor thing suffered a crash and a repair that was done in haste. I was young and all I wanted was to get the glider back in the air. A very poor fiberglass application was done and needs to be removed. I'm sure the covering is stuck like glue which ought to slow progress some.

Moving along, here's the motor, mount and spinner. The parts were shipped from Germany. Tariffs are way too high to order anything from the U.S.. Besides, most of the good stuff I can buy in Europe anyways. Hyperflight, in the U.K., has been an excellent source for parts. My last order took less than a week to get here. 

Don't let the tiny motor fool you. If I let the motor do what it's designed to do, it will send this plane into orbit. I'll be programming about 60% thrust and using a 14x8 prop. This should tame things down a bit until I learn how this plane handles with the new hardware. I chose a metal mount because I read that the motor can get very hot in a short amount of time. I'll be using a high temp epoxy for the mount. The spinner is carbon fiber, although for my use it's really not required. I wanted something small (30mm), but be compatible with the prop and motor. I'll be painting it white to keep with my original color scheme.

Alrighty then, where is my razor saw?

OMG! What have you done!! Relax, it's just ply and balsa wood. 

I guess I'm supposed to install the mount slightly to the right and down to compensate for thrust. I'm guessing about 3 or 4 degrees should do it. I seriously doubt it's needed since this can be programmed into the radio, but what the heck. I'm from the "old school" and that's how we did it. Shhhh, honestly I'm just eyeballing it. The protractor is there for show.

This will definitely require more reinforcement since the fuselage is a couple of millimeters smaller than the mount. No worries since I'll have to shape a rectangle box into a 30mm circle. You know the nice thing about being retired is that I can spend all day reinforcing and shaping (while listening to music) and be perfectly content. Ahh, one of the great pleasures of modeling.

Before adding reinforcement, I decided to shape the existing plywood to get a better finished contour to match the spinner diameter. Not much room for error here.

See that gap between the fuse and the mount. I'm making that go away. The outside surface of the plywood must be the same thickness as the mount's tiny flange. Heck, I have a whole millimeter to work with. The best tool for this job...patience. 

Today's my 65th birthday. It's gorgeous outside and I'm going for a trike ride in the countryside. See 'ya