HTC Conversion almost ready!
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Yes, we are working on an easy way to attach and remove that panel covering the engine. Stay tuned, this is going to be huge for the HTC crowd. The YouTube guy with the bar magnet panel leaves a gap between the cover and the base where it has to seal off the engine, resulting in engine noise in the cockpit. We are designing the panel to easily remove, re-attach and seal.
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Yes, we are working on an easy way to attach and remove that panel covering the engine. Stay tuned, this is going to be huge for the HTC crowd. The YouTube guy with the bar magnet panel leaves a gap between the cover and the base where it has to seal off the engine, resulting in engine noise in the cockpit. We are designing the panel to easily remove, re-attach and seal.
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Yes, we are working on an easy way to attach and remove that panel covering the engine. Stay tuned, this is going to be huge for the HTC crowd. The YouTube guy with the bar magnet panel leaves a gap between the cover and the base where it has to seal off the engine, resulting in engine noise in the cockpit. We are designing the panel to easily remove, re-attach and seal.
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The YouTube guy with the bar magnet panel leaves a gap between the cover and the base where it has to seal off the engine, resulting in engine noise in the cockpit. We are designing the panel to easily remove, re-attach and seal.[/QUOTE]
I don't understand.......how did that happen regarding the gap. Wasn't it supposed to line up correctly by using the bar magnet.?
I don't understand.......how did that happen regarding the gap. Wasn't it supposed to line up correctly by using the bar magnet.?
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The thickness of the magnets and foam tape raises the panel up quite a bit from the normal position, leaving a gap everywhere there isn't a magnet. But the guy who did that fixed that problem by adding another layer of weatherstripping to fill the gap. Not a difficult problem to resolve.
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I also saw a version where someone put the magnets & plates on the backside of the panels (panel edges sandwiched between magnets/plates) thus there was no additional gap.
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The thickness of the magnets and foam tape raises the panel up quite a bit from the normal position, leaving a gap everywhere there isn't a magnet. But the guy who did that fixed that problem by adding another layer of weatherstripping to fill the gap. Not a difficult problem to resolve.
Those types of mods are not the best way to do this. Stay tuned.........
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Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. 
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Oh okay.....that make sense. It should be flushed flat. Thanks