Greetings to all,

The wife bought me a Colco 4-channel Apache, co-axial a couple Christmas' ago.....I puttered around with it but never could get the thing off the ground.

My son recently took an interest in it while visiting, so we fooled with it some, got new batteries etc...but still no go. Once we got it about 3 feet up, but after landing, no go. It seems something was binding the lower rotors, we took the whole heli apart, but found nothing binding. "swash plate" is a sliding swash, and we have adjusted it as it appeared it might be rubbing, but nothing works.

Can anyone give me some more troubleshooting steps, I would really like to get this thing up for him to play with....then look around for a budget bird for myself to play with.

Thanks in advance for the help!