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HIROBO Freya - Sceadu - Shuttle > Just bought a Sceadu EVO 50!
 
 
Strife
Heliman
Location: Portland, OR

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I guess I'm trying trying to find out why you said that nitro is hard to work with. You aren't going to find an electric with the same performance as an Evo 50 without spending a large wad of cash.


Well, think about it. What usually makes nitro harder to work with than electric? Cleanup? Tuning? Break-in? The list goes on and on. I've worked with nitro cars a little bit, as well as electric, long enough to know they are night and day in terms of how much maintanance you need to perform on each of them.

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My bet is that he is dumping the hobby altogether... he is selling the radio... so I don't think he is going the electric route.


If somebody looking to get into the whole hobby is willing to give me a better price if I include the radio, then I'll sell it and buy a new radio. I said I would be willing to split up the package if need-be for a reason. Might as well start with the whole listing and work individually with people who may or may not want the radio.

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Just keep it, fly it.. You aint gonna notice a difference between a non hyper and hyper until youre stickbanging anyways.

Just my .02 cents.. Stick to the hobby, dont be a wuss..


I'm not selling it because I got the non-hyper. I've said that TWICE already.

Tchavei is the only one here that said I was dropping the hobby. I don't know if he was really giving his "two cents", or if he was just trying to be a little snot, but either way, he was posting an assumption, nothing more. He doesn't know me, so he has no real way to know what my plans are, and that's that.
03-21-2006 Over year old.
 
 
tchavei
rrProfessor
Location: Portugal

Well excuse me.

I can understand that someone made a buy and now realised he would have prefered to go to another route (electric for example). I also do know that whenever you sell something you are doomed to loose money. If you really want to take the electric route, why don't keep the radio, gyro and servos? You'll never sell them at the price you bought them and you'll have to buy everything again!

I doubt you'll get a better deal selling the radio too. In my opinion you will only increase your loss as you will sell the radio under new price too. Just do the math.

Like you said, I don't know what your plans are and honestly I don't care either.

Evo 50 is a lovely bird and a cheap and good way to enter the hobby. Everyone is entitled to have their opinion and so do I.

You mention electrics are easier to work with? Yeah just keep telling that to yourself while you cycle your batteries, watch for overcharge, overdischarge, risk of fire because you shorted out the connectors while you where soldering a new plug, getting hurt while you're setting up pitch because you forgot to disconnect the motor from the the controller etc etc etc.

Electrics are cheaper in the long run (if you dont crash and kill your lipos after 20 flights), quieter and cleaner. The amount of maintainance is the same on both type of birds. Its the type of maintainance that differs.


I rest my case, do whatever you want. Its your money and time anyway

Tony


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"Perfection and patience usually walk side by side..."
03-21-2006 Over year old.
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Strife
Heliman
Location: Portland, OR

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Like you said, I don't know what your plans are and honestly I don't care either.


Then why'd you even throw in your "two cents"?

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I rest my case, do whatever you want. Its your money and time anyway


Mmhmm.
03-21-2006 Over year old.
 
 
roflcopter
Heliman
Location: Portland, Oregon - USA

oooohhh buuurrrnn!

Wait a minute guys I just have one thing to say: Lol.

That is all; thank you.
03-21-2006 Over year old.
 
 
SubSailor
Veteran
Location: Austin, TX.

Dude sounds like a flake, let him sell it or whatever............

Fromeco Field Rep.
A day without sunshine is, well.., alot like night time.
03-22-2006 Over year old.
 
 
samstar
Senior Heliman
Location: UK

Diversiing from the heated subject a bit here...I know this is a bit random but I bought a second hand evo recently (moved from raptor) and can't understand why the tail boom has a hole in it (on both top and bottom) near the vertical fin. It looks like a belt roller is meant to be fitted there like the red one on the raptor. The manual doesn't say anything about it so I presume this is normal? What is this hole/space for?
03-22-2006 Over year old.
 
 
Flyfalcons
Veteran
Location: Bonney Lake, WA

Might be for a torque tube conversion.

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Ryan Winslow
X-Spec, EVO 50
03-22-2006 Over year old.
 
 
Strife
Heliman
Location: Portland, OR

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Dude sounds like a flake, let him sell it or whatever............


"Let" me sell it? Don't flatter yourself, pal.
03-23-2006 Over year old.
 
 
SubSailor
Veteran
Location: Austin, TX.

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"Let" me sell it? Don't flatter yourself, pal.


You make no sense boy, and I'm not your "pal".

Fromeco Field Rep.
A day without sunshine is, well.., alot like night time.
03-24-2006 Over year old.
 
 
Strife
Heliman
Location: Portland, OR

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You make no sense boy, and I'm not your "pal".


Everyone else seems to understand.

Oh, and of course I'm not really your pal. Ever heard of sarcasm? Geez, seeing as how you refer to me as "boy", I had expected that I wouldn't have to walk a fully grown adult such as yourself through this, but... Here you go:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sarcasm

Got it? Good. Don't even bother replying to this topic anymore unless you have a solution to Samstar's question. I'll continue to defend myself as necessary, though I really shouldn't have to.
03-25-2006 Over year old.
 
 
Chopper Man100
Veteran
Location: albany N.Y.

Strife

I love evo's. I have a electric Blade CP that I have flown 10 Times. Electric is not for me, to much battery maintance, I would rather by fuel and fly all day.

Getting to my point, I am willing to trade my electic for your Evo. I have two new lipo batterys that I never used, the hop up kit with the a motor with a different gear ratio, sym blades and what ever else came with the hop up kit. I started to stock up on parts so I have a small pile of parts. It comes complete with the radio.
03-26-2006 Over year old.
 
 
Chopper Man100
Veteran
Location: albany N.Y.

Just a comment about maintance

One of the reasons I like the EVO 50, there is very little maintance. I fly the crap out of the one I have. I do 1 Min pre flight checks every couple of flights and the most I have to do it is wipe it off. It is one of the easiest, very low maintance heli's I have ever owned. It just keeps on flying. I have to think real hard to remember any maintance issues I have had. I have to say the just about the only maintace I have had is all pilot induced. Once in a while the ground jumps up and hits the my heli. (I think thats the way it happens, everyone else tells me the ground doesn't jump up, hummmm, I wonder what they are smokin, whats up with that)
03-26-2006 Over year old.
 
 
roflcopter
Heliman
Location: Portland, Oregon - USA

Sooommeething tells me he's not going to take that offer.

$400 heli...$100 heli... ::shrugs::

I liked your input on the EVO though. ;D
03-26-2006 Over year old.
 
 
roflcopter
Heliman
Location: Portland, Oregon - USA

::accidental post::
03-26-2006 Over year old.
 
 
Strife
Heliman
Location: Portland, OR

It sounds like you've more than a simple stock Blade CP, but unfortunately I already have one I'm slowly upgrading and I really don't see the need for another micro. Sorry =\

The Sceadu may be the lowest maintanance helicopter that you've owned, but there's no getting around the type of maintanance that comes with nitro. Tuning it, breaking it in, cleaning it up, etc.. Not to mention the smell and sound is obnoxious =P
03-26-2006 Over year old.
 
 
Chopper Man100
Veteran
Location: albany N.Y.

AHHH

The smell, it is acutally addicting. I don't know how many times I have been at the flying field with someone firing up a four stroke nitro with a bunch of guys standing behind it as the smoke covers there entire area they are in. Once in a while the guy firing up the engine will say ooops, sorry! The guys in the smoke cloud look back and forth at each other with a smoke eaten smile on there face and casually say, "sorry about what!"

And the sound of a heli, did you ever notice how many guys say that the noise is annoying but the walk around the pit area mimicking the sound of it!!

Ya gotta laugh, Its all in good times.

Come on you guys, give me a vote, how many have down this road and witnessed the same, come on lets hear the chuckling and the yea yea your right!

OH YEA!, now its time to join the sound mimicking party, come on you can do it, Peel back your lips, stick out your teeth and say "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". All I need now is a little sound clip to stick here!

YA WHO, let the good times roll!
03-26-2006 Over year old.
 
 
Strife
Heliman
Location: Portland, OR

Oh my. Hahaha.
03-27-2006 Over year old.
 
 
DS 8717
rrProfessor
Location: Here wishing i was somewhere else

Nothing beats the smell of a toasted electric motor. It has that certain sweet smell about it,especially if it isn't yours. DOUG
03-27-2006 Over year old.
 
 
SilverWings
Heliman
Location: Oklahoma City, OK

ChopperMan has a point. The repeated inhalation of nitro is addictive, and how sweet the sound of a well tuned 50 on the pipe?

But then again those electrics have some different tricks of their own. Like catching on FIRE... It'd be fun to see wouldn't it? (you have to admit this one: TREX autoing with a battery pack fire) But the smell wouldn't be as nice as Nitro, IMHO.

DOUG - its like toast in the morning. Simple and satisfying.
03-27-2006 Over year old.
 
 
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