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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 7/10/2012 2:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just had my first crash with my 450x )=. I was flying some lazy eights and a nearby tree came out of nowhere! :uckly All the damage was a striped main gear! 

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 7/10/2012 8:24 AM   
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okay, gonna sign off for now as i am still behind on the packing stakes but as mother always used to say: '' illegitimi non carborundum! ''




is that not what i wrote?? hee hee!

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 7/10/2012 8:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		just got a lovely new Hyperion 3026 880kv for the Apache, so the problem of things getting warm will be diminished but there will be plenty of power!!! yum! maybe, soon, i'll get it flying with the AR7200BX too!!!!

getting very twitchy, as Thursday is rolling around pretty quick!!



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p.s. Sean watch those trees! i had one eat my micro P51 and not spit out the prop!!! ha ha ha

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 7/22/2012 2:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sometimes I cant stand horizon!!! I just found out that the spindle for my 450x is on backorder till august 20!! I ordered it at my lhs and it was in stock when I ordered it but now I cant find them anywhere? Other than that mishap everything has been ok.Ive had movers at `my house for the past 4 days and I am reallt tired! -Sean


PS. Norm, We will come by the club to say bye before we leave. )=


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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 7/22/2012 12:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sean

is it that different to the 4003D??

know what you mean about the moving: drove home a week ago with the car full, then rented a van, drove back out to Germany and filled it up with the rest of the apartment to drive home again!! no movers for me but did have my friend Mateus help me get the kitchen units down the 39 steps to the van!!!!

Meanwhile, my darling wife and daughter are sunning themselves on the beach at Lyme Regis on the south coast!!!!

start new job tomorrow! little apprehensive but at least i know the establishment well!!!

Sean, hope the move goes well and safe travels! now at least you can travel next year to Venlo, Netherlands for the 3D Masters!!!

hope everyone is enjoying life and partaking of some description of flying (yes, that includes "planks")!!!

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/4/2012 2:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey everybody, been busy at the store and I have completed a couple of scale builds.

Matty the 450x and 4503D helicopters are more premium and heavy duty than the old 400. They both fly nicely. I love the new 300x. It is a super flying little helicopter that shares a few parts with the 450x such as main gears, tail and servos and of course the great 7200bx. The new tiny 130 flies super but it has a few growing pains such as the need for shimes in the tail section and the main gear needing a metal replacement. The tail on this one is rock solid and it is a blast to punch around and a great 3D trainer. Stable and rock solid. Personaly the stores demo has had no problem what so ever and trust me,,,,, we beat the h""" out of it.

I have knocked the dust off of my nitro birds. I have to replace the gyro in the Evo Scheadu since I stole it to put on the tail of my Yak54.... yeah I cheated but it is cool flying. I am doing a deep preflight on the Vibe and the Scheadu to be sure they are ready for flight. I replaced all of the fuel lines and filters and purchased fresh fuel. I am using VP 30% heli this time. I have had some good reports on this fuel for helis, airplanes and cars/trucks.

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/4/2012 11:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Jimbo

glad to see you're not being kept idle! ha ha ha!

glad you told me about the 130 as that was probably going to be my next purchase!

no flying for me as of late as i've been settling into the new job (lates first weeks: 12 noon - 10.30pm ; earlies the next : 6am - 4:30pm), also been trying to sort out getting paid too as it is a nightmare!!!

also enjoying being with my family again, Naiya has adjusted very quickly but Jules, understandably, is taking a little longer as she is so used to running the house on her own!!

hope to get the head back onto my 600n this weekend, as i took it off for transportation from Germany! because i had so much stuff to bring back i am renting a container for storage but it is not like everything being in the garage as it is a good 5 miles away, so i have to plan everything that i want to do because it takes a lot longer to 'to and fro'!!

hope everyone is well and flying, by all accounts you've definitely been having plenty of sunshine over thar in the good ol' U.S of A!!!

Sean, hope the move went well and you've managed to settle in okay!!?!?

be good people

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/4/2012 11:54 AM   
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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/10/2012 12:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		 Hey everbody! Its been a long 4 weeks but now I finnally live in paris! Matty the move went pretty well and now that I am here I really miss flying helis at the rat club. I cant wait to start flying again! I never thought moving would be so tireing but everything fell into place in the end! I even got upgraded to first class on the way here!! Anyway we just finnaly got internet a few days ago and evereything is alot better now! I hope everyone is doing good and flying alot!
Thanks, Sean

P.S Norm we went by the club before we left to bye but I guess you were on vacation! we will see you at Christmas!


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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/10/2012 1:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		J.d I actully bought a 130x right before I left but my radio was put in the sea shipment to paris which has not arrived yet! Do you know of any upgrades that are a must for the 130 to fly well? I guess I need to figure out how to get parts in Paris!  -Sean 

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/10/2012 3:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hello all Y'All,
Old "one Thumb is back home and reading the posts again.
I took a motorcycle trip and put 8910 miles on the bike riding in a big loop of the US of A.
There were a few glitches with servicing the bikes and we did not get to see all we planed on, but the Grizzlies in Montana didn't get us.

When I got home, all the batteries for my little copters were dead and will not come back to life, so it is obvious, I don't know how to store them.
Just before leaving for the trip, I finished the Beaver and need to hook up with one of the club members who can Buddy box a coaching flight with me, I've never flown a plank and would hate to "bend" it.

I made a video and posted it on u-tube about the trip, it is not about flying in the air but floating on the roads. Not certain if it's OK to post it because of that, but it does introduce you to old "one thumb". Check out: http://youtu.be/k4cLBIIMIxQ

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/10/2012 11:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sean the metal main gear is a must and the tail torque shaft in the tail block sometimes touches the tail shaft and must me cut off. There is a harmonic that will vibrate the heli as you run it up but goes away as it gets to speed. You need to look on the threads to see the latest fix. Some are extending the tail supports back about 2 " and some are using shims on the tail shaft. I simply hit idle up as soon as I am reeady to fly and blast through the harmonic. Some has complained that the main gear appears to touch the main board but out test proved it false. I tell ya. it will run circles aroung the MCPX....lots of power and the tail holds. As far as parts you will probably have an easier time than us to find them. Horizon UK is one. I do recommend the 300x as a next airframe. There is a web site that sell just the airframe and no electronics if you have some 450 type servos ans a Spm7200bx lying around. If you need anything let me know and I can ship it to you. I have shipped stuff to Matty.

Thumb I am glad you are enjoying the road trips.

Matty I just think everyone is busy lately


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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/11/2012 8:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		 Thanks Jim! I will research the torque tube cut and I will definetley upgade the metal gear! I have heard of some people having the problem of the gear touching the main board also! The 300x does look very nice but since I have a 450x I wanted something I could fly around the house so I went with the 130. I cant wait to fly my raptor again!! I miss the feeling of the nitro helis! Our sea shipment to france will be here this week I am exstatic to get flying again!

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/11/2012 12:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am getting my nitros ready to fly. I have not flown them for several months due to the "quick do a battery and go back to work" and no clean up of the electrics. My Evo is ready and my Vibe is almost there. I am setting up a govenor for it from the 3Gx to see if I like it. The 3GX FBL side works fine but I haven't used the govenor. As far as the 130 gear touching the board,, we test several at the store and found you could slip a piece of paper between them so no touchy.

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/14/2012 12:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow! Yesterday Went to a hobby shop in paris and it was amazing! The prices were pretty good and they were very well stocked! They had like 20 300x stacked tall almost to the ceiling! They charged 220 euros for a 130x so it balances out well to U.S prices. They were very freindly and spoke alot of english! -Sean

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/15/2012 1:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Sean,
Great to finally catch up with you. Glad you all made it to Paris ok and your priorities are still in order ( flying helis and hobby shops). Tell your dad I said hello.

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/15/2012 9:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		 Hi stuart, yeah I'm glad I got my priorities straight! I like it here so far and I can't wait to get flying again! My radio and all my other stuff arrives tomorrow so I'm excited! Tell everyone hi from us and that we miss the club a lot ! -Sean 

P.S Do you know where Norm is? We haven't heard from him for awhile.


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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/15/2012 11:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		Norm? Who's that? He's been on "a trip" as he likes to call them . For the folks who work, they are called " Vacations" or "Holidays" now that you're across the pond. I'll tell him you're looking for him.

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/16/2012 3:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Sean, Told ya!!!! they have the good stuff tooo... English? They talks better than we-uns

Blade 300x notice of problem: The main shafts are snapping mid air. The spindles are snapping in a crash instead of bending. I believe that the shafts have been hardend way too much making them brittle. The 300x does not have a oneway bearing so the shaft is snapping at the main gear bolt. 3 failures here so far not due to crashes out of the ones I sold so far. The owners have contacted Horizon to tell them of the problem. You should also if you own one and have had a failure.

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/18/2012 8:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well. I am back. If it hasn't been one thing, it's another. Flyright (really?) is right. We were on a trip. And then there were other things, like a failed AC waiting for us when we got home, family members (yes plural) in hospital, WORK. Etc.

But nevermind that. The Rat Club is alive and well. Finally got back out there to get in a few flights along with Joel, Greg, and Fred. My SDX continues to fly well and I continue to try to remember what I learned last time. Sean has completely passed me by. I mean...the biggest event I have to report is that I had a glow plug fail on me yesterday! And that is just fine with me.

Greg has defected to an Outrage Velocity 50 N2 Flybarless, and just received a second one that he is building as I type. He still remains our loyal Hirobo dealer, but he got tired of listening to Hirobo's excuses for not delivering a flybarless conversion kits and models. So far, he's pleased with the Outrage running a Skookum 720.

He did run into foaming issues and tracked the problem down to the hub being off-spec. Had an 8 thou runout on it, so did some shade-tree mechanicking to true it up a bit better. That helped reduce the vibrations, but still had foaming tank issues. Finally learned somewhere that the rubber tank mounts were too stiff, so remounted with isolation tape. Kind of Rube-Goldberg, but seems to work okay now.

JD, have you heard of any foaming issues with these?

Sean,

Glad to see you're settling in in le gai Paris. Better start learning to speak French!

Thumb!

Glad to see you're back. Hope all is well with you. Get crackin' on that plane and get out there and fly it. Please be sure to report back to us!

Enough for now, must go.

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/19/2012 12:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		Mack, No I have not heard about that. With every nitro you have to dial in your clutch assembly to get the run out to zero if you can. They may have had a bad batch or he has a prop shaft thats running out on him from a crashed motor.

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/19/2012 4:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Nah. Brand new engine. It was the hub. But also the mounts. It runs well now. He ordered a new hub, but won't replace this one until he breaks the heli. And as you know that would never happen.

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/27/2012 2:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey everyone, I have had some really good flying sessions lately. Low 80's Nothing much to report on the products. The new X Gaui helicopters really look sweet and JR has a new 550 size heli on it's way. I have been flying my nitro helis and I tell ya, the OS motors I have popped right off and I have not touched a needle. I have hung up my electric helis for a week or so but plan on taking them tomorrow so I am chrging batteries as we speak.

Sean hows it going over there?

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/27/2012 3:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		How do all,

Whilst riding a motorcycle across the US, for a month+ and 8,910 miles, I obviously dont know how to store the batteries for my little Blade because they are dead and will not take a charge. In the meanwhille I finally finished the Beaver plank that's been a forever build. Going to the field with an experienced member of the local club with the intention of a "Buddy Box" assisted flight, I was ready. Turns out my Tx was not compattible with his equipment, so I had him take it off and trim it with my Tx. It flew hands off the sticks straight as an arrow. He looped the bird a few times and it was very controllable. I asked him to see how it would land and thats when the fly in the ointment reared it's ugly head.
I had replaced the stock wheels with "Tundra" sized skins and needed longer axels. The screws I used bent like they were made out of a mixture of straw and butter and the Beaver was planted for the day.
When I checked the voltage of the battery, it had 14% left and my question is 10% left really safe?
It was nice to see it fly and I have axels ordered from McMaster-Carr and hope to be on the controls myself next time.

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RE: Heli stuff and fellowship - 8/27/2012 12:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		 Its goin good Jim! I start school tommorow and it looks like I have a fun schedule! Been flying the 130x and I really like it so far! I went to a community park the other day to practice 3d in a bigger space and by the end of a flight, I had a crowd ooooing and awwwwing about a rc heli!

Glad to here your flying your nitros again!! Hope everyone is doing ok, Sean

Jim that x series does look nice!!

Dear santa.... http://www.gaui.com.tw/html/shopping_view.asp?sn=1174  Haha


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