crazybusone
07-17-2005, 11:15 PM
I am having huge problems with blowing out my tail rotor on my raptor 60's,if its not the pin coming out of the front set of gears( I think I got this one fixed) its the rear set busting all up. Their is a fine art to landing a spinning chopper and not loosing it all. I am using the white gears,and lately tapped a hole in the gear box, and put slick 50 in their,then sealed it back up with a set screw,we'll see. Does anyone have any suggestions? I love my raptors but it is hurting my confidence,not to mention the farm animals that have been victimizied by these wayward birds, Thanks!!
shafs
09-20-2005, 02:55 AM
Hi
Had the same probelm as you. i was flying low when it happend. so it cost me a bit of money. when i fixed it i used loctite and CA glue to hold the pins in and i check the front ones after every flight.
rhino
09-21-2005, 09:32 PM
Hi
I had 2 let go so I know your pain. After reading around i found the solution is to pack the gears very tight with the shims so they feel notchy. I believe I have 3 shims on the LHS (opposite side to tail rotor). This pushes the gears together. I gae had 30 flights of good 3D and no more failures. Also for the pins I put a thin piece of heat shrink around the gear and over the pin and shrunk it on. I have had the pins come loose but the pin only come out a few mm.
Cheers