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Old 06-21-2007 | 06:44 PM
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Foxito
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Default RE: Problem With The Falcon 3D Tail

Wal-Mart carries the arrow shafts but it is a seasonal item for them so they may not keep in stock all year long . Just check around for a Archery shop in your area if they don't . I use a copper tubing cutter from Home Depot to make the cuts easily but you can use a hacksaw as well .
Ok thanks. I'll check on Walmart, and if they don't have them will look on the web or the local yellow book for any archery shop.

The arrow shafts replace the boom on the heli .
This is what I initially understood, but wasn't sure, so now I'm sure it replaces the tail boom, and I'm sure I can replace the tail shft with a 3 mm CF rod from one of the local hobby shops, I know they carry them, I actually bought a very long CF 3 mm rod once and made my own training kit with the same rod, cut it in a half and put four ping-pong balls on the ends, and made me yet one more training kit for the Axe CP I think it was, it's been there fine since then. - Anyway, next time the tail boom gets smashed I'll try find these 2212 arrows, thanks again.

I've posted pics several times of the 2212's that I use .
Yes, I know, and I've seen your pictures too, and yes some guys talk about the 2213, some about the 2212, but seems the majority that are happy speak of the 2212's.

Wife said I must be getting better if I could crash like that
And I have to agree with her, because after all that you did, and didn't break much, you're definetely getting better quality crashes....hahahaha..less damage.

I one day crashed my Falcon 3D at the park so badly, that when I went to see the damage I though it was the end of it, it must have fell from 30-40 feet or so all the day in an angle like 45' degrees....when I looked at it, the canopy was all destroyed in the front, the flybar looked like a "Z", and when I got home I found out the main rotor shaft was bent.... I fixed the canopy with Scotch tape and CA, the flybar I straightened it by hands, and the main rotor shaft...I had to take the entire rotor head apart, take the shaft out....put it on a flat metal surface, and tap it a few times with a hammer....voila!...when I put it back it was better than ever...I must have bent it a bit the very first day I tried the Falcon 3D, because I remember the first day I broke the wooden blades (which I don't like)....hahahaha...I got the main rotor shaft bent three times already in a month, that's the only thing I don't like on the Falcon 3D, the hollow main rotor shaft, and the shaft-driven (just because the shaft breaks, but if it lasts this time I fix it, I won't mind that it's shaft-driven) No big deal, as long as I can fix something, I would not pay anyone to do what I can do myself. [:-]

I remember speaking once with a guy at a local hobby shop, the owner was fixing this guy's T-Rex 450, the guy told me that he had "three helis", I said which ones are they? He said NO, I have only this T-Rex 450, but with the money $$$ I have paid to fix it so many times, I could have bought two more!!!!.......Hahahahaha, that was cute![&:]

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