jwhitacre
Key Veteran
Location: Tarentum,PA- US
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Well after 6 hours of beating grinding, cutting, measuring, and beating my head off the work bench the tail mod is done This was way more of a pain than putting the rex head on. 2 hours of it was because I didn't have the belt tight enough and it was slipping at about 3ft in the air and I didn't notice so I thought it was something I did and tore it all apart including the boom to make sure the belt was not twisted up in there and then I went over the new gearbox and mounting again As far as how much of an improvement this did do the answer is: not much . The tail is crisper from less slop but I still don't like it's lack of holding. I'm guessing this is due to the low tail ratio and the larger blades. I'm probably going to get the 43t tail gear next.
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They are about 10mm longer and seem a hair lighter.
the cyclic is a bit crisper and I also gained some x-tra lift due to the larger blades. I'm in the middle of putting the rex tail assembly onto the king right now. I'll have pics and hovering test results later tonight. Another note: These blades would probably work on a stock HBK head if you shim them to fit the larger grips. I also saw some blades for a MX 400 there that are about the same length but thicker root and that might fit the stock head without any shims.
I got one for the 450X instead of the XL belt and they won't have the right one until Wed. but I'll have pics up later of it so far. I cut the slit on the side of the alum. tubing and have it in the frame with the longer supports on so when I get the right belt I'll cut the boom down from the 24" that it is to what I need
Oh just in case anyone wants to know the tubing I got is 5/16 X 0.014 aluminum and I got it at the LHS. I also picked up a maingear for the Blade 400 for the heck of it along with Blade 400 landing skids and the maingear fits really nice in there
I have my brother in laws HBK here for some maintenance so I took a side by side.
