im looking at getting a pair. are they as strong as they say they are? what are your stories with them?

i am going to make my boom alunimum to prevent it agenst boom strikes.

I lost control at 100 feet slammed into the ground, the blades were find. Had multiple normal crashes. Ran them into a concrete curb. Those blades have saved my maybe 100$ in normal woodies for 1/4 the price. Great product.

I hit a chair with them yesterday

They did not break, They did dent but I used a pliers handle to push them back into shape.

It did however break a blade grip, still cheaper than a new set of blades

Good Luck

im sold, im ordering a set. lets hope i learn to fly with these

I think I'd rather buy a new set of blades than rebuild all the internals from sudden stops. Be carefull.

They actually dont cause any more damage than woodies as long as you dont tighten the blade grips too tight. I think many guys are overtightening their grips and thats why theyre getting big damage. I tighten my grips just enough so that I can flick the blade with my finger and it will move about an inch.
Overtightening causes the blades to be too rigid and when you hit something, the shock gets transfered right through the whole heli instead of having the blades fold on contact.
Thats just the way I prefer to have it set up.

I tried the other blades from http://bladecp.corocks.com. I bought the ice, but the come in three colors. The guy seems like a dorky engineer type, but he made some great blades. Nothing against jcs, but corocks blades are better. Check them out.

I am glad that you like your blades, but I think that I should warn the rest of you that if you want to do 3d/inverted flight, these are not the blades for you. Like a real helicopter, the flexibility of the blades makes it impossible to do loops or fly inverted. If you did so, the blades would flex downwards causing a boom strike (or killing you if it was a real helicopter). I am sure they would be fine for hovering and FF though.

I have to disagree with the loose plati-blades or CF's won't do any more damage than woodies statement. I have NEVER broken a tail boom with my wood blades. I have broken a half dozen with my plasti-blades. They are very-very tough, but they will break tail booms even if they are very loose. I chose to use woodies and replace them rather than rebuild the frame and/or boom every time I land hard. I get woodies for $7.60 a pair (latest price) and they hold up quite well in the grass. It's up to the end user, it sounds like there are some great techniques for making the tail boom easier to replace, but I would rather pull out my allen wrench than my soldering iron (tail wire) and heat gun. I also find that I rarely bend the main shaft with the cheap woodies.

Steve

my hls has an order comming in next week. cant wait