No worries blade killer. I got everything I needed from your post and I appreciate you taking the time to type it out. And I'll add my experiences with leveling my swashplate since I haven't figure out a way to use a bubble level. I just use the canopy mount strut as a reference and level the swashplate to that. It works real well, although I haven't figured out a way to exactly center my servo arms yet. I get it pretty close, but there's still room for improvement. I've tried removing the screw from the servo arm and pulling the arm and moving it a tooth in one direction or another. But it's either too little or too much. I also tried using my servo centering electronic gizmo but when I power the heli back up it just goes to its normal (uncentered) position. Heh. It seems to do fine when I'm flying it. Also, I meant to say earlier that the wire mod on the fly bar paddle causes a bit of 'cushion' on the controls. I'm not sure why, but it seems to make it easier to fly the thing. Go figure.