Crashed the other day, not sure if i broke the feathuring shaft or not, is it very noticable? how can i tell?

Put a nut driver or whatever tool you use to remove the nut or bolt into one side ONLY and turn it. If one of the blade grips moves at all then you definitely have a bent spindle.

The only way to know for sure is to remove it and check it with a straightedge or roll it on a sheet of glass.

mmm that was a little comfusing for me. I took the blades off and went about getting the little bolt i think it is inside where the blades go but couldnt get to it properly and i think that when i did it ust kept turning, is this the right way to go about it?

you need a couple 5.5mm thin walled nut drivers to get that shaft out. sooner or later you're going to need to replace it so you might as well get the drivers now.

make sure you also buy about as much + 1 feathering shaft than your main blades. They tend to bend very easy, from hard landing to a crash.

Those nuts are a pain to get to and most nut drivers walls are too thick to fit in the blade holder. (hint the Eflite nutdriver DOES NOT fit).This is what you need to get, (see picture)they come in a set of two. I paid US$11.99 for them at my LHS but they list at US$9.95 from the mfg. Try for getting them from HONG KONG (closer and shipping is less) also there is a ebayer in your neck of the woods that does a lot of business on Esky parts, try ebay and the discription of the tool several diff ways. Feathering shafts are ment to bend, saves the other expensive stuff from damage. Also if you replace the shafts you should be sure you install the bearings and there races in the correct order inner and outer races are diff and so are the order of the shims etc. be sure to check new blades for balance and weight and tracking along with pitch (you have a pitch guage right?) Stock up on shafts and blades (Hong Kong).

hey havnt been on for a few days but so many good replies. Thanks for everyones help, been looking on ebay and found some good tools to purchase.
Slowly but steadily getting better at this heli, must say so much better than a 4ch fixed pitch heli!
just have to get used to nose in, can fly good until it is coming at me haha

Jimmy...if you learn at a slow rate, like me, get lots of feathering shafts!

pratice from behind the couch. or a large bush

lol i like the idea of behind the couch or large bush hahaha
Its not that i cant fly i can fly easy and hover, as long as i keep the heli side on or from the tail just not head on..... then the troubles start, i hate crashing and getting parts so after i have stocked up on parts then i will be taking more risks.

what your really saying is when the parts cupboard is full your a glutton for flying "on the edge"

you going to recycle those?