ampex456
Senior Heliman
Location: Bayville, NJ
| Ok Here we go again :)Right now there are .30 and .50 kits without the changes in the US market place. For those kits, the changes are available for 35.00 (blades in .30) and 39.00 (DTDS and third bearing block in .50). Both prices do not include the one time s & h fee.
As of yesterday we began shipping the new version .30 size kits with the 570's. FYI, I have run 600 narrow blades on a 30 and they worked awesome! Better aerobatic autos and more than adequate aerobatic performance. With the new Hirobo .36 motor on 30% and 570's performance was very close to OS 50 performance on 600's
The fifty size kits also shipped yesterday with an authenticated certifciate for the two upgrade parts at no charge. The rest of the stock parts are included in the kits except the main blades. I will admit setting up the Sceadu .50 to fly with the 570's stakes a little more set up work, but the effort is worth it for full on aerobatic 3D performance. The soft semi profile at the tip does make the inverted climb out rate a little softer, but a little more pitch on the bottom side fixed that. Top end speed is good enough and "jumpiness" out of level flight is more than satisfactory, if not wanted. The package does work as it was, but required a moe defined set up. Hence the reason for the data sheets on the MRC website and on drhirobo.com, my site. As all of us are constantly learning in this hobby and there are probably only a handfull of true experts in their particular brand radio choices, etc, the bulk of the pilots in this hobby need good direction and easier to set up helicopters. From my,testing the use of 600's allow this to happen. And as many pilots wished the Sceadu either came with no blades or came with 600's, we just merely responded to your inputs. Maybe that's a new idea to some, but over the past few years of working here, Hirobo and MRC are little bit more open after they have seen the results of persuing this type of product management. Hence why I have a job. Is it alweays going to be perfect, never. But I'll work hard to get it there, or at least close to it. 
The June date posted in an earlier message is in error. The first sets of parts will be here ealry next week. We have a tall order to fill to make this program fair for everyone and Hirobo can only produce so many at a time. The first batch will cover all the request I currently have as of today plus those kits out on the market. Now that can change next week, but we are expediting what can be made so the delivery is as timely as it can be.
If any of you have any questions on setting up the Sceadu, go to the websites and if they are not complete enough, give me a shout here or at jeffg@modelrectifier.com. No problems, only solutions.
My favorite Sceadu right now is the Enya 50 powered Sceadu with the 570's. I do not want to put 600's on it as the roll rate is out of this world. The autos do not hang like the 600's, but I can live with that. That is something I lost when I put 600's and 620's on the OS 50 powered Sceadu. But that is to be expected with that much longer of a rotor disk. I am going to do more work on the OS 600 machine as soon as the weather gets better.
Bottom line, it does not matter what version kit you get, you will still win in the long run. And hopefully this is the question that fulfilled an answer as Steve put it.
Jeff G
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