Hello all. I am new to this forum but not really new to rc. I had a Hirobo shuttle about 12 years ago but never flew it much. I did finially get to where I could fly solo a couple of times though. anyhow I picked up an Axe CP about 15 days ago and started the steps of learning how to fly. I slid it around on the floor for about 5 packs and then had a buddy stop by. He has a newer heli that he flys on a regular basis. Together we got the radio trimmed in and found the factory set length of the linkages were all out of wack. When I adjusted them to match the trims on the radio I found that we basicly set them to what the manual says there lenght should be. So it appears that they were wrong from the factory. When I went to put on the the linkages back on the ball link portion of the swashplate broke off in my hand. ??? I was a bit dissappointed as I was only using two fingers to try to snap the link back in place and I felt this broke way to easy. Anyhow to make a long story short. I took the heli up and hovered it around for about 3 stock batteries and found that it was flying better.

The next day I got the heli out and started into a hover and after I had the hover stabalized the heli head started shaking violently. It shook so bad that the tail boom rotated in the mount to the main frame and the tall motor and fin were now facing 45 degrees from vert? You can imagine what this does to flight of a small heli like this! I was able to get the heli down on the ground and tried to figure out what had just happened. I looked over all the head linkages and didn't find anything out of wack that I can tell. I took the heli up again and it didn't do it right away but about 30 sec in to the hover it did it again. Some times it will do it right away and some times it takes it a while.

Now this heli has never been crashed by me but I shure don't know what is going on that is causing this. The blade tracking seems fine but when this thing starts doing it shaking thing it defenatly looks like the tracking is being affected for sure. I have sence taken the head completly appart and looked at all components for failure and damage. I cannot see any. THey all look in good order and setup correctly. I do have another set of blades I can try to see if somthing is going on there.

I called heli-max yesterday and they recommend I send them the heli and have them check it out. I must say I am dissappointed in 1 thing and that is the tail boom mounts. The 4 screws that clamp around the boom seem to be stripped and I have never tried to adjust them. The only thing I can figure is they were stripped to begin with or they somehow stripped due to the vibration of the heli.


Does anyone have any ideas as to things I could do to fix these issues or should I just send the heli into the factory and have them work on it. I hate to send it off and not see it again for a long time.

Thanks for any feedback.

AC