This is a great post bdavision! How many newbies to this forum would serve themselves well buy following this advice before buying their first heli!?!

I had purchased an E-Razor from nitroplanes. I was advised by NP to visit rcdisscussions.com. to find out which spare parts to order as a crash kit. There were several forum members that advised me to send the heli back. Many did not like it because it was not a T-Rex clone, which limited this models owners to only E-Razor parts. There were also complaints about the quality control of some of the parts. However, there were a few that had nothing but good things to say about the E-Razor. After following all the threads for several weeks, I decided to return my ER before that option expired.

Upon hearing about this, a friend of mine gave me an old T-Rex 450 XL. The heli is in excellent shape, but replacement parts are hard to find and upgrades will probably make it too expensive to update.

I started looking @ EXI. They have a couple of nice looking kits! I was considering the EXI 450 Pro Carbon Fiber or the 500 version of this same kit. However, I was already getting advise that there were some QC issues with some of the parts to these "metal rotor systems" and need to be upgraded to TR parts. Considering that I would be replacing metal parts before I even fly the bird, I was finding that just getting started with helis was going to cost more than I figured.

This $29 dollar kit may be the answer for someone at my skill level. At this price, even if some of the parts fail, the repair cost should be low. It sounds like you've made all the mistakes for us here bdav, so I think I will follow this advise.

I would like to ask you a couple of more questions about this kit if I may. Is this a TR clone? I learned that not all EXI kits are based on TR design. Are spare parts for this kit even available for a kit at this price, or do you just buy spare kits? If available, will any of the spare parts I buy for this kit also be usable with the higher priced kits such as the 450 kit I mentioned earlier?


BTW, I'm fairly new to this forum, is there a "spell check" here? I'm not seeing it.

Thanks, blufrog



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