rotordoc
Posts: 151
Joined: 3/21/2002
From: Inuvik,
NT, CANADA
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Furyflyer,
I truly appreciate all of your efforts but I do find a few ambiguities. As I was also interested in the answers to the questions posed by Syclic. I will continue to wait for more clear answers upon completion.
Vance,
How much time did your friend spend building his?
It seems Furyflyer is a very fast builder. On post 36 he gave very reasonable times that had totaled to 2 hour and 15 minutes to that point -10 min, 15 min, 60 min, and 25 min. (please correct me if I am wrong)
There was still the lower frames to be assembled, the mast parts to be assembled and mounted into the top frames (maingear, auto rotation unit, assembled into the top frames with the mainshaft, swashplate, washout unit and radius guide that required "easing"  , to post #55 where time seemed to have backed up because then instead of the 2 hrs 15 minutes added up in #36 here we are with more assembled and it is now only a total of 2 hrs ???? Unless he means another two hours for this additional assembly which would mean a total now of 4 hours and 15 minutes (seems more reasonable)
Then the clutch is attached to the motor, the motor onto the mount and the muffler to the motor, the clutch bell/start shaft assembly mounted into the top frame and the engine and its clutch/fan assembly into the lower frame and aligned to the clutch bell, fan shroud installed and the landing gear assembled and attached, fuel tank plumbed and installed. How much more time would all of this additional steps taken?
Then post #57 has it being "85% complete" and only weighing in at 6 lbs at that point without RX, Canopy, & Battery (What of the blades and gyro?)
Then later there is a picture with the engine & muffler in the mainframe with tail assembly attached and a weight of only 4 lbs claimed.....what, things have been added and it has lost two pounds?
Hmmmm....I will have to assume the time given Syclic "So far total time is about 2 1/2 hr's" is in error because from the preceding I must assume it is an honest error. (The first time I timed myself assembling a similar kit by logging the times taken for each step of the manual I was amazed at how wrong my estimation was after totalling each step. It actually took me three times longer then I had guestimated !!) So don't feel too bad FuryFlyer, it is an easy error to make.
I will wait for it to be completed, and hope at that time, with all radio gear, including RX, gyro, battery, blades and canopy you will be able to weigh it for us (I usually get my local postal station or shipping retailer to do this for me) and give us an accurate "ready to fly" weight.
Thank you Furyflyer for the complete pricing info. I can now compare it to others kits that come with blades and muffler (e.g Hirobo Sceado 30 and Century Hawk Sport or SE ). I understand with the kit at $299.00 the blades at $60 and the muffler at $70 that would be a total of $430.00. Now I can figure what else I may get for that price also. Maybe even a good 50 size heli for that price.
It would also be interesting to see in these reviews how well the helicopter faired (issues that may have subsequently had to be solved) after burning 10 gallons & then 20 gallons of hard aerobatics.
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The servo's are to far away and the receiver can't be mounted any closer. I will post some pic's of this.
Will do....