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Old 08-13-2005 | 06:24 PM
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Default RE: Bdavison's E-flite Blade Assembly

Hello Everyone, I am new to this hobby but have been following this forum for about a month or so. I am LOVIN it. I just want to send a big thanks out to bdavison and everyone else for all the time, knowledge, and detail info. here. I am a noob to any type of RC flyin and I purchased my Blade about a month ago. I absolutly love it. My LHS tried to discourage me from buying it a little (i think) by telling me how hard it was going to be and everything. Yeah, so here I am, LOVING EVERY DANG MINUTE of it. This has got to be one of the best hobbies I could have ever gotten into (just barely surpasses HALO 2 live!).. It is always a constant changing challeng and I am barely at the tip of the ice burg. I am hovering and getting doing forward flights pretty well, (Don't worry-PLENTY of crashes) but the crashes just push me more to perfection. I am thrilled. Anyway, bdavison's thread has very much inspired me to not just learn how to fly the heli but to learn how it works and how to fix it myself, so I stripped my beautiful Blade down and step by step put it back together. (It is pretty kewl learning how the Heli's work and everything) It still flies fine, (no i did not ruin it) but before and even after I had done this I have notice a little vibration developing. I have been trying to hunt it down and even resorting to replacing some parts to no avail. But anyway, not bad enough to really worry about at this point. I did notice something that does not sound right though. When I am in normal mode (motors unplugged) I can move the throttle lever up and down and the servos are quiet, but when i go to Idle up mode I move the throttle lever from mid stick down (-pitch) and when I am almost at the bottom the aileron and or pitch/collective servos start making a jittering sound. As I go back up they get quiet again. I can move the throttle lever all the way up (+pitch) and back down to mid stick and the servos are fine, no noises. It almost sounds like the servos are not being able to move their entire cycle just on the down side. But like I said when I am in normal mode and all the throttle lever is all the way down (0 throttle/0 pitch) they do not make that sound. I have checked the best I could to see if the swashplate was binding or hitting the Main Shaft Retaining Collar, but it looks like it has plenty of clearance. I am not for sure if it is supposed to be that way or not but I am kind of afraid to fly in Idle up mode at a -pitch for fear of ruining the servos. (I know that I am a noob and you are probably thinking, whet the heck, 1 month and he thinks he can go inverted or something, trust me NO WAY, that is not the case with me, I just think I might have a problem and whether I am going to actually use it now or not I like to have EVERYTHING working correctly.) So in advanced, thank you all for your help and it is great being part of such a wonderful hobby/sport. Happy flyin to you all!!!