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waynekinney
03-22-2005, 07:52 PM
Hi,
This ebay helicopter looks like a Zoom 400 clone. It is advertised as being a CCPM heli.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5964863950

is this correct?

Cheers, Wayne.

bighands3d
03-23-2005, 02:54 AM
Yea it's a zoom just diffrent name and some diffrent colors.. kind like the the GWS dragonfly and the century humming bird.

Sar
03-23-2005, 06:08 PM
I think it's sort of a gimmick the seller is working over. There's Mechanical CCPM(Raptors, etc) and Electronic CCPM :D

Graeme
03-24-2005, 10:00 AM
Reading a little further down he's posted a correction: CPM instead of CCPM - but it reads like he really means Collective Pitch.

Before you get to that part of the ad though, he says The motor drives the main rotor by means of a single-stage gearbox
... but in the next sentence: The rotor is driven directly by the motor via a BALL RACED FIBRE SHAFT.

Okay... What am I missing here?!!

Sar
03-24-2005, 01:01 PM
He means to say the tail rotor is driven directly by...

The zoom uses a carbon fiber shaft with a gear that interfaces directly to the pinion on the motor. It's suppoerted by 3 bearings, one in the middle, and one at each end of the tail boom.

Graeme
03-24-2005, 02:46 PM
Thanks Jon.

I've got two of them suckers sittin' on the shelf waiting for me to do something with 'em, and I didn't even think "tail" while I was reading that!

Dang!! I gotta wake up!

waynekinney
03-24-2005, 06:57 PM
Yeah, the seller added that to his description after i emailed him about it

Wayne

marcelg
03-25-2005, 12:28 AM
Is a DRAGONFLY/WALKERA 6CH 3D CCPM R/C HELICOPTER, up to you.