OICU812
rrProfessor
Location: Resources Capitol, Canada
| Hmmmm well in assistance to a freind that recently bought a Swift and had more than a few issues new out of the box.
It seems there are several reported cases out there. Sure Century will replace a few shafts, maybe throw around a few junk swashes back to their customers, but in the end if you want it to be a good quality helicopter you are going to have to make some changes. These are not normal tweaks that come with the hobby, these are replacing the original parts with others from other helis.....
First of all this one is no surprise was the main shaft being bent, before even installing it, it was bent. Not from a violent spoolup or spooldown, before even being put in the heli. Secondly which now has been reported even more and more is a very poor quality swashplate. The swashplate in many instances has also been the culprite of bad vibrations due to the huge slop and bad materials used. I am quite certain that Century would have been better off waiting another month or two..., having a few meetings more and mainly spending abit more on the kit and charging a tad more for a better swash and better machining on shafts. This would have prevented the wave of dissatisfied customers and their legit complaints. It amazes me even after all the time they took to release and test this heli that we the customers out there have to deal with their crap and show them how to do it.
Here are some pictures to demonstrate a couple of the issues as well as what was done to fix the problem..
This is the Swift swash and main shaft you get in your kit, some have been ok, but many of them have been crap. The white delrin material on this one "brand new" moves with the ball and snags and has more than a mm of play in the swash mold. Beside it a brand new bent mainshaft.
Oh what do you know, the Raven swash is not only much better in quality but also a near perfect fit on every way. Here is a pic to compare the two.
And here is the Raven swash mounted, notice the shiny silver mainshaft, it is a mainshaft from a Hirobo Evo. Now only twice to three times as strong but also available at several vendors and best of all it will be straight out of the bag!!!
You will note that in using the Evo shaft it will come down below the gear abit, which causes no issues at all, just looks different.
And if you do not have a Raven maybe you have a freind who has an Xcell around, and a spare sawsh. Here is a pic of the Xcell swash mnounted up, a pretty good fit as well and again, much better quality than the stock one.
I think Century was not ready for a 30 size electric imho, they only made a big version of a 3D pro is all they did, including issues.
I only hope for Centurys sake they can correct these issues very soon, make better quality shafts, better spindles, better swashplates get past these stupid mistakes.....
...Once upon a time there were Nitros, flybars and frequency pins... |
I wonder if I made the right decision.
