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Old 08-28-2007 | 07:50 PM
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hitman45
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Default RE: Engine running backwards! HELP

My kit came ARF, When looking at the Main blades and the paddles, they are both facing the RIGHT way. Unless the factory has mounted my paddles the wrong way which I highly doubt and hope not. When fitting the tail rotors, I double checked to see if they are the right way. When spinning the main blades, everything else seems to "cut the air" in the same directions so meaning that everything is right. If there was something wrong, that would mean if had to change everything! since everything is in the wrong direction.

Noticed something last night...the 2 screws that screw my fan mount onto the clutch shaft have came off. Thing is, the fan is not free spinning and seems like it is stuck to the shaft. I might have to disassemble the engine mount and take it all out and give it the work over. Im trying to get this heli up and running but I just keep running into more problems.

So everyone is saying that the blades and everything should be turning clockwise and not anti-clockwise? Put it this way, if I stand at the tail and the tail rotor 'forward' (which would be clockwise if looking from side), the main blades are turning anti-clockwise (if u were looking it from the back). Is this right? Like I said earlier, everything seems to spin the right direction so it might be an engine fault...