gwright
Senior Heliman
Location: Melbourne, Fl
| I just built two Fury Extremes and the washout sliders were a bit stiff as you describe. I used a drill bit the same size as the pins and lightly opened up the guide pin slots. I also used a piece of sticcky-back sandpaper about an inch wide and couple inches long, stuck around a drill bit, with the sticky backs stuck to each other, so there's a "flap" off the side, and lightly reamed the inner bore with that. Without snapping the anti-rotation links onto the swash, I can slide the washout base all the way up, let go, and it will fall to the swashplate under it's own weight. The trick is to be very carefull, and "touch" it, then trial fit it,..repeat. From what many others tell me, the plastic washout base takes a bit of "fitting" like this, but does not wear like the metal one, therefore it lasts much longer. Of course you want a helicopter with zero freeplay anywhere,..however,..freedom of movement is FAR MORE important than absence of slop. Everything in the washout assembly is "loaded up" during flight in one direction, so if there is a tick of freeplay somewhere it dissapears the minute the blades spool up. That being said,.. I don't have any slop in mine after carefull fitting,.. but if you err one way or the other, it's better to move very freely than to be totaly devoid of freeplay. |
