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Old 05-12-2014 | 07:20 AM
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Zor
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Default Figuring things out is fun

Originally Posted by flyingjmerritt

thanks. starting to make little headway and taking shape. for my first flybarless helicopter so far its been fun to build. the flybarless helicopters are out of my comfort zone! witch is not a bad thing its a good thing. few things are a little different then the flybar helicopters i'm used too building but don't look like much different. onlything i can tell so far that is different is the rotor head and different type of gyro. instead of just one gyro like on the flybar helicopters. it has 3 gyros one on the tail rotor,one for the pitch(for and aft) and one the the ailerons(left and right). other then that the rest looks pretty much the same. least this flybarless helicopter will be good experience for me how to build few things was not to sure on but figured it out. in the assembly manual there are few steps that are kinda confusing what to do exactly and kinda vague on the information. but once i figured it out not too bad.
and nice to enjoy finding a solution.

I am now making a beginner's skid to be mounted under the existing landing skid.
I want the ping pong balls to be free to spin (roll on contact). I have to find a way of drilling the holes in the balls exactly opposite each other.

Right now I can only think of cutting off a circle of same diameter as the balls in a stiff paper sheet; bending the sheet at 90 degrees on the circle diameter, sitting the balls in that 90 degree bend and marking the balls drilling centers.

I think that should work sufficiently accurate for the purpose.

Zor