HeloMech
Heliman
Location: Running Springs, CA - USA
| I ordered two sets of the plastiblades. One set for me and the other for a co-worker. I got them and took them in to work so we could install them. He got his all installed. I forgot that I needed to swap out my tail motor. Anyway. He had wrecked the chasis on his bladeCP and had to build up another chasis. When he did, he plugged the servos into the wrong areas and was getting negative pitch when he powered up. So, in his infinite wisdom, he holds the tailboom and powers up. Hehehe, the new plastiblades are a little like a rotating ginsu knife set. I now call him knuckles!! lol. Nothing serious. We're aircraft mechanics so we always get nics and cuts.
anyway, he's "flying" now and I'm moving into ff with banked turns. I like the blades. He's put a dent in one leading edge and cracked one trailing edge. I'm not sure how he did the trailing edge, but he's been a little hard on the little bugger.
as for having a well crashed bladeCP? I'm on my third chasis. I had a tail boom spin on me while I was about 40 feet up, outside. It looped backwards and went rotor first into the dirt. Split the chasis, motor hanging from wires... weeee... that was about 5 minutes after the t-rex flipped out and hit the dirt. Was a hard afternoon on helis.  |
i finally figured out that my collective was STICKING!!!!
i know i know, i should of checked this but it flew so nice right out of the box and for about 3 weeks until now. i guess the added mass of the plastic blades put more load on the grip bearings causing them to bind against the incorrectly installed washers!! i took the head apart and repositioned them in the correct order and the bird flys great!!! just thought i would share my stupidity with eveeryone
let this be a lesson...EVERYONE SHOULD CHECK FOR STICKY COLLECTIVE!!!!
