3 bent spindles, what going on?

[cane]

I have a Blade CP Pro with plastic blades and I am just learning hover.
I have bent three spindles(feathering shaft). One from a light crash and two from not so perfect hard landings from maybe a foot in the air. Before the plastic blades when I was trying to hover I had many hard landings and no problems. When I first got the plastic blades I had no problems after crashes know If I touch the thing the spindle binds.
Whats up guys has anyone had this problem, and do you recomend any good fixes?

Thanks in advance for all of your help.

[txflyer]

get rid of the plastic blades

feathering shafts suck for the pro. its just going to take time and your control imputs will get smoother. you need to get past the whole dropping the stick when you get freaked out. the best thing to do is ease it up a few clicks and try for the landing again.

if your using the stock eflite radio. then as soon as you figure out if your hooked or not. go out and buy a new radio. spektrum is the best. either the dx6 or the dx7. yes the dx7 is worth the 350. yu can sell the servos that come with it for like 70 or 80 bucks. there are even online vendors that will sell you a dx7 with a ar6100 rx with out servos for around 300 or something like that..

search this area for the upgrades to turn that pro into a decent flying machine.. there fun to fly and can hold up to most crashes over grass. well if you got woodies they will break. HONESTLY every one will say for the pro the eflite carbon fiber blades are the best.. well worth the money for them.. plasitc blades suck. they flex to much. THEY WILL CAUSE MASS BOOM STRIKES !!!!!

[Mortificate]

I go through spindles just about every time I crash. It is one of those spare parts I keep a lot of. Your plastic blades transfer a lot of the energy of an impact to the head and one of the first places that energy is transfered to is the spindle. I have not used the plastiblades but if they are heavier than the blades you were using before that will also play a roll in the amount of energy that is being transfered and would furthermore explane the increase in your bent spindles.
Further along if you upgrade your CPP and increase it's head speed you are gonna start killing a lot of these puppies. LOL. Enjoy :D

[Kindling Maker]

I have the Plastic Blades and Boom strikes are a big thing. I am going back to woodies or CF. Yes alot of it is the plastic blades transfer all the energy from the crash to the rotor head. I like the plasti-blades but they are really heavy, and flex ALOT. I had to replace my frame because of the Plasti blades. If you use the plasti blades, you WILL get a boom strike, you Will have to replace it and you will find out that it is not that easy. If you miss drill it your next crash will break the frame where the tail boom mounts to it. I Like the blades, I did not pay for them they were donated to our club from the manufacturer, I love the blades, if I had a local hobby store where I could just go pick up parts I would not go back to the Woodies, But it takes a minimun of 7 days to get parts here, and short of keeping a full rotor head in stock I never know what is going to break in the head when I crash.

[txflyer]

EFITE CARBON FIBER BLADES.. ARE VERY MUCH WELL WORTH THE MONEY FOR EVEN 2 SETS... my pro flew so much better with them when i switched from woodies..

[cane]

Yea I have gone through three tail booms, should I get the woodies or carbon blades?

[txflyer]

depends where do you fly ?

how often do you crash ?

you can still get boom strikes with any blades it just takes more for a strike to happen with the cf or wood eflite blades

if you fly over concret alot then id go with the sym woodies. since they will bust apart and minimize damage to the head. but nothing beats the cf blades. if you fly over grass alot cf is the way to. my last set of cf blades i had over 20 crashes on. all in grass..lol if you walk my back yard you will divets in the yard from where ive gone down.. also check and replace the orings in the head. i had a mid air boom strike. when i went to replace the feathering shaft. i noticed that the orings inner hole that the shaft goes through. was way bigger then the inner hole on new ones so i replaced them.. i think that was the cause for the boom strike.. i also installed a few washers between the bearings and orings to keep the seated and stiffen up the head alittle.. the helped alot with the way it flew.. my control imputs felt crisper.

[cane]

I normally fly over asphalt, but I am going to start to just fly over grass. So I guess I am picking up some carbon blades today.

[cane]

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[Mortificate]

good choice. I hate the price of the cf blades but for the cpp you can't beat them. Don at Freestyle (the belt mod guy) sells some really cheap woodies that are awesome. I got a set and they were near flawlessly balanced. all I had to do was screw em on and fly. I think they run around $8 and change each. I buy like 4 sets at a time for spares if my cf break.

[borocouncilman]

I used to bend spindles and main shafts with regularity. Then, on one fateful crash, I managed to shear off my retaining pin. While I had spare spindles and shafts, I had no pins. Desperate to fly, I substituted a short bent section of paperclip.

This has proven to be a money-saving "hop-up". The paper clip pin becomes the weakest link and the first thing in the rotor head to break during a crash. I haven't bent a main shaft or spindle since.

If you do go the paper-clip route, be sure to keep the bent ends short and verify that you're not interfering with the swash plate.

As for "plastic", I've never gone there. The wooden blades are cheap and easy to replace compared to some of the other bits on the helicopter.