averen
Veteran
Location: Austin, TX
| I use the futaba tape and it holds the 401 quite well, but it also sits up front on my reciever box...no fuel (or at least very little) gets to this area. When I had it on the back I put a rubber band over the top of it between the canopy mounts and that worked very well...any mounting tape that you have will start to loosen up when fuel hits it! Mount it up front if you can!
I don't like any of my electronics getting soaked with fuel...just seems like a bad idea. For this reason I have a front mounted servo as well, if setup properly it's just as good as the rear mounted servo.
I check that pin every gallon or so. I loctited the pin in place, as well as the setscrew and haven't had any issues with it.
Sorry about your crash(es) I hate it when it's something stupid, I would much rather dumb thumb it in...I can live with it when it's purely my flying skills and not something stupid that I didn't check.
Generally the best thing to do in tail failures is to climb (you need to be in a large area, especially since the piro rate will increase when you add pitch/torque and there is no telling where it will want to go!) then auto it in...but in your case when the pin fails I'm sure it adds a ton of drag to the mains too, so that might not be the best way to go!
Jared
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Plus mounting it with velcro like that might mount it too "hard" to the frame and cause additional vibrations to get to the gyro. I haven't had a piece of gyro tape fail, and I've put a lot of gallons on the current piece of tape. As long as you clean both surfaces with alcohol before mounting and you keep fuel away from it you shouldn't ever have a problem...but check it often (as with everything else on the heli) just in case.
