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Blades, Night Flying and Painting > Tail blade balancing question
 
 
Jagboy69
Key Veteran
Location: Lake Mary, Florida (20 mins East of Orlando)

Ladies and gentlemen.. I'd like to say a sincere thankyou for those of you that posted opinions for my thread about the most visible color.. I have painted my heli a seriously OBNOXIOUS orange.. now If I get disoriented.. I'll have to look into getting some glasses... but.. I am curious as to how many of you balance tail blades... I know if it spins, moves, rotates it should be balanced and I agree... I just bought a new pair of tail blades... and I am wondering if it is possible they are perfect out of the box.... they looked fine on my balancer.. Volkul suggested I drip glue on them to bring them into balance if need be... tedious at best and worked well for my last set of tail blades along with some tape... so.. now that you've read my ball of run-on sentences.. How do You balance your tiny tail rotor blades??
thanks...

Jason /// Sceadu50/9chp WWW.Jagboy69.com
06-14-2002 Over year old.
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Smokinjo
Senior Heliman
Location: Memphis TN

On my Koll Rotor Pro. Works for everything and is so simple
06-14-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Keeder
Senior Heliman
Location: Saint Louis

Balenced or not

Well, I balanced mine on my Rappy 30 and used electrical tape.

I know, I know, it wont last... but I did it when I didn't know what I was doing. Anyway, sure enough, about the 4-5th flight, I heard this noise... pffttthhhhhhhhh... then whack! my little piece of tape came off. Noticed no difference before or after and it was kind of fun watching/hearing it go nuts.

Anyway, I think this time I am going to pull the whole assembly down to the shaft and balance it that way instead of just the blades, and use something other than electrical tape to balance it!

Keeder
06-14-2002 Over year old.
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Safe_Cracker
Key Veteran
Location: Chicago, IL

Hmmmmm.

First of all the tail rotor on MOST helis are too sloppy to do anything more than spanwise balance.You must find the lead/lag of the blades first.I used my dremel to spin the rotor (off the heli mounted on the dremel) with rubber ban holding zero pitch.Make sure the blades have abit of resistance to them when trying to move them so they hold the posistion desired.I run them up and when I'm satisfied they are good I gently remove them from the dremel and place them on my magnetic balancer spanwise.I bought the tripple bearing rotor up grade from HHI and it's pretty slop free so I try a full balance job and it works great.I usually have niks and chips out of my gel coat on my cf tail feathers so I have to rebalance quite often and using epoxy to repair the chips is also used in proportion to balance.
06-15-2002 Over year old.
 
 
jetranger
Veteran
Location: PERHAM M.E.

One of the best ways is to blance the hub and rotor grips first on a high point then put the blades on reblance the whole thing, I swap blades to both sides first to see if it blances if not I drill a small hole in the tip end of the heavey blade to blance it does not take much do not drill to deep a 1/16 to 1/8 deep is all it needs
06-17-2002 Over year old.
 
 
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