Romie,
Thanks much for the advice. I'm real new to AP motors and did not know that they got hot enough to toast a paint job.

I guess I need to pick up some more tubeage! Does it ever end

Sounds like you recomend a beefed up 18mm mount, and say a BT-50 foil lined tube for a stuffing tube right up to the area that the chute will reside right?

So I would put the beefed up mount into a foil lined BT-50 and extend that up to say 3 or 4" from the nose. Is that correct?
Thanks again,
Hans