Alright, so i finally got a video up;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxai_ChWqCw
EDIT: I put a new main gear & shaft on, too. the old gear was really warped. I left a little gap between the retaining collar and the shaft housing, making sure the tapered end was down. it seems as though im able to move shaft from side to side a little, but only a negligible amount... Also, the rotation seen when looking down on the rotor head doesn't seem to be present anymore, for whatever reason.
My biggest concern (since its expensive ) now is that it kind of looks like the rotor head is bent, which i didn't notice before. If you look in the beginning of the video the blade that starts on the right seems to be up higher than the one on the left... though i don't know enough to tell if that's true, if it would cause a problem, and if it would cause this problem...
I didn't check my tracking before, come to think of it, but it didn't seem too bad... I forgot to give it a close look this time (brain dead from college ) but i did glance at it and it didnt seem too bad. I couldn't tell from my own video cause of the angle & my lack of experience, maybe someone else can...
Anyway, is there any particular blade balancer i should look into, or a price range?
I also forgot to try my helicopter without the blades tonight, which would have made sense. I have too much work tonight, so ill do that tomorrow and see what happens.
Thanks, still
Steve
Steve ~
Just as the others keep hinting about balancing your blades, it will make a big difference in the flying performance of your heli, and if not balanced will show exactly what yours is displaying in your video, although the shaking could still be a few other things also. When I was in Cali last year working there for the year, I had both my CPP's up and flying good, and then I stored them and took the CF blades off of them during this. The last time I flew them both, they flew perfect.... Well, when I got back home to Washington State, and got ready to take one of my CPP's for a spin after putting on the CF blades back on, I couldn't figure out why the darn heli was shaking so badly... Worse than yours in fact... So since I had a bunchload of new parts, I started the process of elimination and started swapping parts... Dang I gave myself a headache because I couldn't for the life of me figure out why this thing was still shaking... Heh... It drove me mad, because usually I can troubleshoot a heli in my sleep !
Well, as you can see in my pics below, I have CF blades for both of them... And there tracking tape is similiar on both sets of the blades... And guess what ? I had accidently mixed those sets up, and so those blades had variances then in the weights / balances than from when I flew them last with the right sets balanced for each bird. There was a difference in half a gram, and with all new parts on my CPP's (the original CPP's) it didn't matter, as it made the heli's vibrate like a big dog from having imbalanced blades. So I put on the correct set after weighing and balancing, and then the heli's flew very smooth with no more shakes...
I was so discouraged that I even flew one of the CPP's with that bad shaking, and even crashed at the end... This was 8 months ago... And as you can tell, at the end of the video when I crashed, that soft paper clip, snapped ASAP and saved my main gear and shaft... It beats that very strong stock retaining pin that will usually take out your main gear, and stress out your rotor head. The "paper clip mod" is really a saver, and so think about that also for the future...
Its hard to tell in the video, but the CPP was shaking violently... If you look at the antenna you can kind of see it then shaking :
http://vimeo.com/3464598
I wish I would have been able to learn on the newer CPP2's as those things have so much more power and especially tail control from the upgraded stuff now used on them. Not to mention already equipped for the Spektrum TX's... The original CPP's are VERY underpowered, and tail control on them is near to nothing ! Not to mention they had the famous glitching from the old school 72mhz systems that they had and used.... Eh....!
I still fly them though for fun still to this day however, there all stock still except for CF main and tail blades...
My recent video then of one of them was 4 months ago at a bigger field, and although underpowered, there still a fun little craft to take out once in awhile... In this video now, you can see what a CPP fly's like with a set of blades that are balanced ! No more shaking !
http://exposureroom.com/members/J-MI...f14216dcf7b36/
~ Jeff