Happy belated Thanksgiving to you as well glydr.

I was finally able to get a decent pitch setup on it after I posted earlier. Everything looks to be of identical lengths (by eyeball). I've got it set up per the manual, except for idle 1 and autorotation. I have idle 1 at -3 to +10 (vs the manual's +9), and I have autorotation (hold) at the same as idle 2 (-5 to +10). If I went any higher on the positive or negative pitch, it would take about that amount out of the opposite end. I think that where I'm at will suffice for a good while and if I find myself needing more pitch, I'll either upgrade the head or buy a 50 size machine.

On a lighter note, about 4-4:30 this afternoon, I called the hobby shop and my boom was in . I've got it all back together finally. I did find a couple more problems in my post repair checks while setting up the tail. First off was the elevator servo. That wasn't a big deal as I had a JR ST47 laying around as a replacement, problem solved. Second problem is with the rudder linkage. It's very tight. I dropped some oil on the tail rotor shaft and in the tube for the linkage. That helped a little bit. At least it moves with the servo now. Unfortunately, it's still a bit on the slow side. Even though it's tight, I might be able to counter it with a stronger tail servo (it's only got a Futaba FP-S148 on it currently). I'll probably pick me up a high torque JR servo tomorrow for it. Everything else seems to be going just fine on it, even the gyro seems to be correcting the right way (adding left rudder when the heli is turning right). Once I get the tail problem solved, all that's left is to fire it up, tune it, check the blade tracking, take it to the field, put the training gear on it, trim it out, set the gyro gain, fly it until I get used to it's handling, then remove the training gear and fly some more.

Thanks again for the advice and Happy flying.