View Full Version : my pro isnt lonely anymore
Kindling Maker
06-13-2007, 09:30 AM
I hope that big bolt on the table isnt from a Carb or something important. BUt it really looks good.
txflyer
06-13-2007, 08:21 PM
nope its a bolt that was on my da integra
txflyer
06-13-2007, 08:40 PM
also i looked at the align blue tail rotor case only when i was at the hobby shop today. it looks bulky and heavy, when i got home i looked at mh tail again. it looks way way better then align's design and combined with the cf boom it seems just alittle lighter on the tail
eddo22
06-13-2007, 08:50 PM
hell man pop it up into the air from the ground..lil, i usually do...i tipped her over while turning during ff...teaches me to fly so low!
Kindling Maker
06-14-2007, 12:13 AM
Well at least you are in the air
txflyer
06-14-2007, 03:29 AM
intresting fact
if you own a cp with superskids, and you have trex wich you fly all the time, and never the cp. you can fit the cp superskids to the trex by using the middle small hole.. you have the use the aluminum tubes as the align ones are to big. i was going to buy gorrila gear slim skids. but after seeing that these fit im good to go. they are the same thing as gorrila gear skids.i think it might even lower the stance of the rex a hair ( 1/8in ) but im not sure.. it does look better tho with black skids
eddo22
06-14-2007, 05:36 PM
tx, did u do this as an upgrade? or did you break your stock align skids somehow? could you post some pics please?
txflyer
06-14-2007, 06:25 PM
i can push my heli down till the frame is flat on the ground and it snaps back into shape when i left go of it.. i did it as an upgrade.
if you have a rough landing and snap a skid. your heli is tipping over. you mihgt as well crash it into the ground trying something..
its the same thing as gorilla gear, but since i already have them, and plan taken my pro back to stock for 3d flying, why buy new sets.. plus i cannot find gorilla gear slim skids in black.. its always neon green
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p30/atxracer/ss1.jpg
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p30/atxracer/ss.jpg
eddo22
06-14-2007, 07:04 PM
wow, they look good! i never woulda thought. i actually just slapped my super-skids back on the pro cuz i smashed a set of stock ones and didnt feel like doing surgery to get them back together. good to know i can use them tho if i ever break the align ones!
txflyer
06-14-2007, 07:06 PM
im going to use them for awhile. but i want my heli sitting low. low enough for the tail fin to sit on the ground. im not worried about tail rotor strikes with the ground. but i love the look of a "slammed heli"
ive already started looking at new frames and i think its the stk frame where the rex is sitting really low in the front but alittle higher in the tail. and also sits at a tilted angle to the ground..looks crazy sick
eddo22
06-14-2007, 07:14 PM
you should balance those main blades while your waiting for parts...have you seen this?
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showatt.php?attachmentid=812465
txflyer
06-14-2007, 07:35 PM
ya man i need to get a balancer. but im giving the blades to a buddy for him to balance for me . i think im going to have him setup the head..
txflyer
06-14-2007, 09:09 PM
i also need some tracking tape. this sucks i want to fly my rex. hey eddo is your rex flying good ? hows the setup with the links ? all i know is that once everything is hooked up. you want all mixing arms even with each.. at half stick. then level out from there.. but i hate to confess this. i have a ruler with inchs on one side and mm on the other. i dont know how to read mm.
eddo22
06-15-2007, 02:44 AM
i picked up this scale for balancing: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=93543
and electrical tape for doing the actual balancing.
also used masking tape colored with red and black sharpie marker for tracking tape.
honestly, i got mine used and the head came already built. soo...i haven't done that either. i only had to adjust the tracking after i got it! seems easy enough tho right...just making sure the links are the same lengths as specified in the manual?
on the ruler, each number on the mm side is probably actually centimeters (10mm). each of the small tick marks is 1mm on that side. i plan to get one of these for measuring next time i'm at harborfreight: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=47256
should make measuring a snap!
:D
txflyer
06-15-2007, 03:00 AM
you rock i would have never have thought to go to harborfreight or use a digi to balance blades.
eddo22
06-15-2007, 12:30 PM
yeah, check out that balancing article link above. ssg scott at rcg wrote it and he shows you how to balance them statically and dynamically. actually here's a link to the entire thread of articles: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=494197 , the one i'm talking about is the one on heli balancing. if i remember correctly he claims to have had his cp2 so well balanced that he could hover it hands off for 17 sec's!
txflyer
06-15-2007, 02:45 PM
eddo i know this is alot to ask but you do you think you could pop your links off and put them on a sheet of paper and mark how long each one is. my girl has forbid me to spend anymore on helis for a few weeks. and its annoying me that i have yet to get the head setup..
eddo22
06-15-2007, 06:54 PM
oh, man...as much as i would like to help you out most of the links are 'trapped' within the flybar and other assemblies so it would mean undoing a bunch of other stuff. since i'm not as knowledgeable with this head yet, i'm kinda hesitant to take it apart if i don't have to...hehe. you don't need the calipers to measure the links, it just makes it easier. your ruler will do just fine. you have the manual right? i can't remember if you said you got yours used or not...
txflyer
06-15-2007, 07:31 PM
used but never flown or even had electronics installed. its kool man i feel ya on taken everything part. i wish had looked closer while mine was apart. one of the links on my flybar cage has a different rod length then the other side.
eddo22
06-16-2007, 02:50 AM
yeah sorry again man...if it was the pro you were asking me to take apart, i'd have that thing all ripped apart, drawn out, scanned in and emailed to you already hehe.
txflyer
06-16-2007, 08:30 AM
lol well im going to be taken my heli to the lhs to have it looked over, i set the head up by looking at pics of where the ball link that goes through the anti rotation bracket sits when the swash looks to be at mid stick.. well neways ive got everything fromt he swash up leveled out.. i hop to give everythin power by monday
Kindling Maker
06-16-2007, 09:53 AM
my girl has forbid me to spend anymore on helis for a few weeks.
:badair: :bomb: :arggg:
Mortificate
06-16-2007, 10:23 PM
DUDE!!! I was gonna jump on here to tell you to stop rubbing your new TREX in my face TxFlyer, LOL, but now after reading eddos post I am sooooo going to Harbor Frieght tomorrow. Happy fathers day to me. I have been wanting to see how much my heli weighs now and the calipers are going to be much better than putting sharpie marks on a peice of cardboard, hahahaha.
Just playin arounf TxFlyer, the heli is looking good.
noguy
06-16-2007, 11:14 PM
i picked up this scale for balancing: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=93543
and electrical tape for doing the actual balancing.
also used masking tape colored with red and black sharpie marker for tracking tape.
honestly, i got mine used and the head came already built. soo...i haven't done that either. i only had to adjust the tracking after i got it! seems easy enough tho right...just making sure the links are the same lengths as specified in the manual?
on the ruler, each number on the mm side is probably actually centimeters (10mm). each of the small tick marks is 1mm on that side. i plan to get one of these for measuring next time i'm at harborfreight: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=47256
should make measuring a snap!
:D
Just a note in reguard to the scale for balancing. I often use a scale to do it but if your scale does not read 1/100ths of a gram then it will most likely not do as good as placing them in some sort of teeter-totter balancer. I have tested this with many sets of woodies.
a few hundreds hevier on one blade and it will tip in a mechanical balancer.
If it does 1/10th of gram it will be close enough though.
Also try using the invisible scotch tape you wrap christams presents with.
It has a lower profile. Also you usually need very little unless a blade was damaged and repaired.
txflyer
06-16-2007, 11:37 PM
im going to try to make my own balancer and 2 swash levelers one for the rex and one for the pro.. at work we have a $10k wide belt sander that sands at what
1/1000 of an inch.. so im sure i could get it down tto where it needs to go.. then go to the band saw and cut a slit into it...
the balancer will be nothing more then a block of wood with a hole drilled in it. then im going cut it in half at the hole. got o austin nut and bolt and pick up a long enough stud that fits through the blades. and can set on the blocks.. also 2 lock washers one on each side..the block of wood will go through the wide belt to make sure it sits flat..
tis all good man, i dont mean to rub it just happens. lol if you think its bad now wait till it flys.. i should be in markiting cuz i could sell snow cones to a eskimo.. i bet once my rex is in there air every one here will have one within 2 weeks..
Kindling Maker-- its not that bad, ive been the perfect bf this weekend so far, im also at my girls sisters wedding. i know i know i wanna puke too. i hate weddings.. but she is acting all romantic like when your just doing everything perfect and your girl is being all lovey n shit..all part of my grand heli plan. i just wonder what she is going to do the day she walks in and there is a 3/4 built trex 600 on the table..i think i will end up moving to sofa for along along time..kool tho she wont know how late i stay up working on it..