ORIGINAL: mikemscott
Rob, I could not agree more. My son and i are building 8 of the EXI 450 clones and there beautiful. Plastic yes, were sport flyers i cannot justify spending $650.00 to $1000.00 for a heli. 8 of these structures cost me $240.00 under a hundred to finish with our spectrumDX6Is. A few minor problems with vibration some screws vibrating out but for this price we can solve this problem. We've been flying one for a month now still have it!! The others are pending parts i can wait. It is a joy to build these helis. We followed a build from MikeysRC.com he used all low end parts has been flying his for two years. The same 8 helis would cost us about $5000.00 own. Ron some help on vibration if you have any ideas please let me know. Thanks, mike scott,
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Wow.. 8 Helis.. that is awesome..
They are great.. my first was an EXI 450.. mine has over 130 flights and is running better than ever.. I have never had a problem with it..
I also used Mikeys RC for the first build.. after that it was easy to build the next two..
I also had a lot of vibration problems with the EXI..
Mainly in the tail rotor..
Remove the tail rotors and make sure your main rotors are perfectly balanced and tracked..
Then install the tail rotors and try see if they run smoothly, even in stunt mode.. mine were ok in normal mode but vibrated shockingly once I hit stunt mode..
i ended up having to use several pieces of tape on one sideto balance it out.. it was part trial and error but it worked.
Just for future reference.. if you go for the $50 Hobbyking 450 GT it is actually much nicer than the EXI, all metal head and metal tail and I had NO vibration problems at all..
Also the 450 Pro, has a metal tail and again it balanced perfectly out of the box and runs beautifully..
But I fly all 3 every day and love them all...
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