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Tubular Spacers

Tubular Spacers
If you need to raise the thrust line to provide greater propeller clearance, you don’t have to resort to using stacks of washers. Wheel collars with longer engine bolts make great thick “tubular spacers.” Adapted from 400 Great R/C Modeling Tips by Jim Newman, Volume II, an Air Age Media publication.

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