folding blades cx upgrade causes loss of controll

[uselessmidget]

Today a custom came in and showed me his CX2. he had put the folding blades upgrade on and now you can barely controll it. it appears he put it all together right but when it takes off it moves way too much by itself, its near impossible to control. any1 know what could be up?

[Buzzkill]

Does that person have the upper CNC blade grips? If so thats the problem.

[uselessmidget]

yes, upper and bottom, why is that a problem? he has cnc folding blade grips on top and bottom

[Buzzkill]

Makes the CX/CX2 top heavy I guess. All I know is if you take off thee upper grips leave the lower CNC ones on replace stock upper blades it'llbe fine. I wasted $30 on the Microheli upper grips.

[uselessmidget]

wow thats bull! well ill tell my customer, thank you very much!

[Buzzkill]

Your in Plainfield? Where at ? My office is in Plainfield.

[uselessmidget]

i live right off of route 59 inbetween 135th and 126, i work at leisure hour hobbies in joliet.

[Buzzkill]

Really ? I work at Harbour Contractors right off 59 and 126. Does your shop sell CPP parts?

[y2kgtp]

i live right off of route 59 inbetween 135th and 126, i work at leisure hour hobbies in joliet.

Leisure Hours is bad for the wallet, my wife does not let me in there anymore :lol:

[uselessmidget]

of course! ill be there from 4-9 9 is closing. ill be there all weekend too. the phone number is: 815-439-1477
the website http://www.leisurehours.com/2.0/default.aspx
the address Leisure Hours Hobbies
2712 Plainfield Road
Joliet, Illinois 60435

[y2kgtp]

of course! ill be there from 4-9 9 is closing. ill be there all weekend too. the phone number is: 815-439-1477
the website http://www.leisurehours.com/2.0/default.aspx
the address Leisure Hours Hobbies
2712 Plainfield Road
Joliet, Illinois 60435

It's off of RT30 (West side of street) in the same strip mall as K-Mart shopping center. :mrgreen:

[Buzzkill]

We need to get a local club going or something. Or is there one around this area?

[y2kgtp]

We need to get a local club going or something. Or is there one around this area?

My basement?

:lol:


Anything but zero wind tends to blow my CX2 around......hopefully the new tail will help with that......

[Buzzkill]

Well I wish I could offer some good news but unfortunately, anything but zero wind will blow it around. The wind needs to be almost zero to fly outside with a cx2.

[uselessmidget]

theres a couple fields around here:

the fox valley aero club
http://www.foxvalleyaero.com/

errr all of a sudden i cant rember the other one.

[uselessmidget]

goto the ama website, on the left side click the picture talking about club locater, enter the city or zip or whatever and it will show the closest ones, theres like 10 pages worth if u search near plainfield.

[Buzzkill]

wow, thanks

[derekschultz]

to make those folding blades work you need to get the upper blade hub from microheli. a buddy of mine bought that blade kit and after we installed it he had the same problem. we found that if you move the fly bar around you'll find that its tight and sticky which doesn't allow it to work properly. once its flying and you go to correct the movement of it, the heli just keeps going in the direction of the correction because the fly bar sticks in that position. i think the microheli hub changes the angle of the ball link to the flybar which is the source of the binding. if you unhook the link all the binding will be gone.

[Buzzkill]

I have both the microheli and the E-flite upper hub. Doesnt work with either one.