Jay...LohChief on the tuner thread used to fly/work on the OH58's....he says my bird as is...is AWSOME. I would expect he's the expert on what the OH58 should look like so it's DONE. I'm not adding anything else and as you say....more crap to break or get caught in vegatation (tall grass).

Rick,

In a nut shell, what Vic is saying is correct.. In my terms it would be like, no two helicopters are created equal. and each needs it's own fine tuning. The good news is that it should only take minor TX settings.

Love ya guy, keep up the great work,

Dave / Choppersrule

Bobs,

Here's a nice addition/upgrade. Hellicommand... Our friend, Fossoman sent me a PM on it... Kinda pricey. But pretty darn cool.

Video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KrHXAohTrK4

Dave / Choppersrule

Barrick

Your heli's always look so nice... Keep up the good work. Your hobby area has just got to be looking like the local LHS by now...Quite a nice collection...Love the new TREX !



Jay

Congrats on the HBK2 ! You Rat ! I'am still wanting one of those for awhile now...In time...In time... [>:]



Dave

Well if the rain gets to nasty for ya, let me know.....I'll send ya the Miss Bud to play with in the basement, worse case scenario.....It's terrible because I think of the flooding rains, and then your beautiful landscape that you have there in the front and back...Well.....At least the brickwork ya did won't wash away...lol.. STAY DRY ! Keep the fort standing.....Hmmmmm....Heli-Command.....I'll check it out...Thanks !




Vic

I was checking out the Fusuno fuselages for the Rex last night on Heli-Direct...The Airwolf w/retracts/light kit for $189.00 is what keeps luring me for the last few months....I slapped myself on the wrists, and just settled for more Trex parts to git er in the air.
Going through the whole heli thoroughly, as it hit pretty hard...lol.. Gonna go ahead and replace the main shaft bearings also. On my RC-Cars, it doesn't take to much to get a tire 'wobbly' from a bad jump or blow to the side from a wreck. I had a slight play to the whole head assembly before, but she still flew fine. Results from the first crash I suppose. We'll see if it clears it up...Closer findings, and I see the CF tailboom has a slight crack. Replacing it with an aluminum one that I have, but still might spend the $11.00 and get another CF one. Weighs a few grams less, & I'am running the heavier s9254 tail servo, so had to lose some weight in the butt, so process of give & take again... Replacing the plastic gears to metal gears in the failed servo.



Cheers,


Jeff

J-MICHAEL,

Here's some info on the Helicommand... Yikes, you need to upgrade your credit card.

http://www.espritmodel.com/index.asp...OD&ProdID=5847

Short Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOi51Mp8cIQ&NR=1


Dave / Choppersrule

I checked it out and it's amazing, and equally expensive ($500USD). The dig is, it CANNOT be used in a digital radio system if I read it right (DX7/6 or others). It has to be analog input to function. The guy flew it a few inches off the deck in the ground effect and it held it's position rather well. I was totally impressed but I'm not in a position to buy such an expensive piece of equipment.

A note on the scalers in their flight personalities. I have noticed that Ricks Ranger and mine as well have a tendancy to fly a tad nose up (tail heavy), yet I run a CG check....it's fine, perfectly balanced. When I go into forward flight....it'll go a ways and flare out, and decend. I have to be more precise/agressive on the throttle increase as I move the elevator stick forward to maintain forward flight and achieve straight and level flight without the flare after a short distance. With some altitude and speed, it becomes less noticable, but you still got to have a handle on the throttle and elevator. I'm NOT sure, but I think I'm experiencing close to REAL scale flight characteristics because I've never had this happen on a stock bird. The fact that the horizontal stabs are non-moveable on models, but move on the real ones may affect flight substantally on the models. This LOH Ranger I built is by FAR the best scaler I've ever built, and it flies AWSOME. I knew when I opened the kit, it would be a very good scaler if I did my part and built it correctly.

sorry I am taking so long on posting my pics , forgot the camera's memory card so will have to wait till I am done with work, what are the prefered sizes of images to post to this forum? I will try to trim em down a bit for load time but just was wondering what the rules are.

The rules are posted on size someplace...can't remember where. Keep 'em low to medium quality....it'll be OK (640x480 or 1024x768), in that range or so. I've found if you put super quality settings, it either takes forever to up-load, or it gets rejected.

sounds good will do a close up of how I attached the braces to the landing gear as well seems to be working just fine so far .

Hi All!

First off: Jeff Everything they say about the HBKII is true. It's really nice but needs to be upgraded, WELL worth the money. I would never think about another Blade ever again. Don't get me wrong.... I would not know how to fly heli's so well if it wasn't for my Blade. I really like the transmitter. Other than the cover for the batteries not locking properly, it is very stout and doesn't feel like a toy. Last night I noticed that there are allen head set screws in the sticks. I removed them and screwed the stick down further and then put a touch of thick CA to hold them in place. I did this to get a better feel on the thumbs, (shorter movement, quicker reaction). I also put the 400 size Super Skids on it as well. I think USHOBBYSUPPLY will be getting a call tomorrow. I plan on getting one of these things called a " tough as nails" feathering shaft. I hear the maker of these is a heck of a guy

God Bless All!

Jay

LMAO....he's currently out of bare shafts BUT, the kitted shafts come with nuts and rubber grommets. I got enough stock here to make over 100 shafts.....I gotta get busy....maybe ship by Monday to him.

Jay,

I knew you would like it, what until you get your upgrades finished. It really is very good helicopter. I agree with the transmitter, the cover does not lock in place, and it is stout.. A quick and easy fix for the battery cover, a big hunk of black electrical tape to hold it in place. One thing you don't want to happen is the cover fall off while flying and a battery drop out. Works great and really cheap![8D] Great idea on the sticks and screwing them down farther, I'll have to do that after my nap.

Down the road when you are adjusting the blade pitch, make sure that the left knob on the TX is at the 12 o'clock position.

The knob on the right is similar to throttle curve, I like to keep mine at/or between the 3 o'clock to the 6 o'clock position.

The thing I like about the transmitter, is that you have instant access to pitch and throttle curve. If you need less blade pitch/more head speed, just turn the left knob ccw, more pitch/less head speed, turn the left knob cw.

Your having fun now

God Bless,

Dave / Choppersrule
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RICK HERE, and HELLO to all :

Now I will show my IGNORANCE, but I am a bit "stubborn" and want to come back on the subject. :::

I confirmed with the seller that the ADDITIONAL T-REX is on it's way in. Now, this T-REX is and EXACT REPLICA of the one that LLLOOKYJJ assembled for me and that was flown a couple of times by JER out in Cali. and twice here, by me.
EVERY item on this new TREX is the same : the JR 265s the 3400 tail servo, the 500T ring GYRO, the motor, etc etc.
I have the first TREX programmed in a model in the DX-7
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I am installing a new, never used 6100e receiver.
MY QUESTION IS ::
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it seems to me that I can make A COPY of the programmed TREX in the DX-7 onto another "model" and name it, maybe; TREXTWO
once that copy is made,
WOULDN'T I just have made all the work to re-program , superfluous ??????? it seems that once the system is BOUND (BINDED ??? ) THE RECEIVER WOULD JUST RECEIVE WHATEVER IS COMING OUT OF THE TRANSMITTER.....
except, OF COURSE, for all the small and necessary trims and adjustments that one would find while attempting flight. But basically, the movements (ROUGH AS THEY MAY BE ! ) on all the servos, provided they are connected correctly and equal to the first TREX, should OPERATE from the git'go, since everything is an exact duplicate...... ( ? )

if I am not getting this right, or what I say is WRONG, then I MARVEL AT MY OWN OBTUSENESS......... please please comment.

And I may add that the HBK-2 that CRASH-CRASH made for me, could be done the SAME, if it were available in the DX-7 because now there are 3 (THREE) flying HBK-2 s here, as well

RICK

YOU CAN COPY JEREMY'S PROGRAM TO MODEL #4, but then, you'll have to program in the trim and pitch curves the new heli likes. AND YES....MORE 6100E's.....you can copy for the other HBKII's, and they will have to be adjusted accordingly. SWASH SETTINGS MAY BE DIFFERENT THOUGH.....[>:]...LMAO. I played hell with the swash settings on the Ranger, but I finally got 'em. If you check the tail rotation on the Ranger HBKII...it might be different than that of your stock HBKII....I don't remember for sure.

Lights are done LMAO....

ok here are the pics of my tail modifications to my blade cp pro the horizontal stablizer is hand cast and based on an image I found on the web , no idea who to give credit to for the originals but they are fairly generic , and the tail braces are made from scavanged parts from the training gear , and bits hacked off of a spare main frame from a previous crash, was going for very very light weight and a bit of functionality as well as flash. let me know what ya all think.

oh one quick other comment , the tape is gone now , it was just there for fit and to get an idea of where I wanted to mount things. I cast a bracket for the stablizer screws to mount into from the top, holds it securely on the tail shaft and weighs nearly nothing.

Dude...you're getting it. I've fabricated battery boxes, lower frames, support booms, everything except the main frame....even made my own skid poles. Nothing worse than being down for a $4 part and $6 shipping PLUS THE WAIT, when you can make it yourself.

Hey Guys, I had a dumb thing happen today[:@] I shut down the HBKII and turned the trans off before the heli[X(][:'(] It did a VERY short chicken dance before I could hit the switch. 2 blades that got skinned up which can be repaired and the washout base broke. GEESE!
I like to break things when I crash not shut off the stinking transmitter[&:] Oh Well.

Question- Can you buy a whole head assembly not just the individual parts? I'd like to just replace it with the Belt CP head. May =be I should get the CNC. I've got a whole lot of junk spinning around in my head right now

Positive note- While mowing the lawn today a Black Hawk flew over my house on it's way into AZO, it was freaking cool[8D]

God Bless All,

Jay

Jay,
I haven't seen a whole head assembly for sale...just parts. The CNC.....you know my thoughts, a severe waste of CASH....and I'm sticking to it. You just TRY to find an individual part for CNC.....AINT HAPPENING. If you're running completely stock...just replace the broken parts and it's 99.9% likely you bent the feathering shaft....LOL, but you can straighten it if it's not too badly bent. Hey....I did the EXACT same thing the first day I had my first HBKII, but I didn't break any head parts....just scuffed the blades. I HATE stock radios. See DX6/Eclipse 7/ DX7 is NEXT!!!, with about 3 AR6100E's...LOL.

Man, I've got some thinking to do[] You can find individual Esky CNC stuff and Dave just shot me a link to a whole head. I have heard that the Esky stuff is sloppy but the part that broke is ridiculous, very weak. I just search Micro heli head stuff and can't seem to find a whole head and that stuff is $$. I'm going to replace the washout base and keep on researching the whole CNC thing before I spend the $$. I haven't changed my mind this much in a LONG time. On the bright side at least there are a lot of parts to chose from instead of none

BTW the lights look great on the LOH Bell[8D]

Nice job on the Fabbed parts Red, looks good!

God Bless,

Jay

Do what ya gotta do...the HBKII has more aftermarket upgrades than you can shake a stick at. CNC....I've seen NO individual parts for the HBKII BUT...the MX400 has plenty, LOL. I should get off my duff and order a set of CNC mixing arms for mine...they always are the first to go in a crash...bought 3 sets so far (LMAO). You may even want to consider a T-Rex 120deg ccpm CNC head...it'll work with MINOR modifications, and you can get individual parts.

Vic, I found a bunch of individual parts for the CNC here @ USHOBBY:

http://www.ushobbysupply.com/index.p...58122d95480643

Dave shot me a link to the whole head @:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.11989

Even for replacing broken parts it looks cheaper to get the whole thing

I'm not sure what I want to do right now, I will replace the part but I will most likely upgrade to either the Belt CP head or CNC. I just don't know where and what right now, more research[:@]

I've got to get some shut eye

God Bless Ya,

Jay

UPS at it's best....again. I personally wouldn't send a brick using UPS....they'd find a way to break it. Yeah...the driver dropped the smashed box on the porch and ran like a little girl...LOL.

I guess they figured the wings were bent already any way, so what would it hurt .... ( seriously tho , that sucks man.) as some one who used to load trucks for over the road thats the classic look of a box that got loaded on the botom of a stack. we used to use boxes of somthing called department 56 to fill out the tops of loads to make a truck as full as possible , thoes boxes got crammed into every nook and cranny to make every thing fit like a big jigsaw puzzle, you can't imagine my horror when I found out what department 56 actually was... its the little ceramic snow villages and the like. I shudder to think of how many little lighted buildings I turned into broken bits of ceramic rubble just trying to fill up a trailer.

I've seen antique rifles that the stocks which are almost non-existant broke right in two by UPS. I don't use UPS for anything and if given the choice by a vendor, UPS is NOT an option. I sent those 8 pictures to Tower Hobbies...maybe they'll re-think their shipper. One pic shows a mark of something REAL heavy placed on the box (maybe a 10hp DC motor weighing 120#). Tower immediately shipped another after the call I made....hope they didn't use UPS.