Mr-C
08-15-2007, 01:27 PM
A guy at my field showed up with a Kinetic and asked me to help him with it, since I'm about the only heli guy around. That's fine, but I have no experience with this particular heli and its head design, so I'd like to confirm a few things.
There's little mixer arms, at the top between the blade grips, that have a long end and a short end. The ARF came with at least one of them hooked up backwards. Should the long end connect to the swash plate for a less-sensitive beginner setup? At zero collective pitch, should these arms be level? I wanted to make them level at zero, but threaded rod in the double links doesn't seem long enough and so I have them a little bit off.
I've adjusted the bigger, more familiar mixer arms that slide on the main shaft to be level at zero degrees. Correct? (This threw the linkage lengths way off the manual's recommendations but solved negative pitch binding problems and seems like a no-brainer.).
On first spool up, something in the tail failed and we had to call it quits for the day. You can turn the pinion gear up front, but the rear shaft inside the boom doesn't turn. That's all I know because the guy took it home with him and I don't know what happened to it, but at least the heli is in one piece.
Thanks, and I hope I've chosen the right forum for this heli.
Finally, a friendly word of advice: be careful on test flights--it's well worth it!
There's little mixer arms, at the top between the blade grips, that have a long end and a short end. The ARF came with at least one of them hooked up backwards. Should the long end connect to the swash plate for a less-sensitive beginner setup? At zero collective pitch, should these arms be level? I wanted to make them level at zero, but threaded rod in the double links doesn't seem long enough and so I have them a little bit off.
I've adjusted the bigger, more familiar mixer arms that slide on the main shaft to be level at zero degrees. Correct? (This threw the linkage lengths way off the manual's recommendations but solved negative pitch binding problems and seems like a no-brainer.).
On first spool up, something in the tail failed and we had to call it quits for the day. You can turn the pinion gear up front, but the rear shaft inside the boom doesn't turn. That's all I know because the guy took it home with him and I don't know what happened to it, but at least the heli is in one piece.
Thanks, and I hope I've chosen the right forum for this heli.
Finally, a friendly word of advice: be careful on test flights--it's well worth it!