Solution" Longer Tail Blades and Grips

[Wolfpackin]

I switched to K&B Tail blades with Align grips and hub.
Both are longer than stock so I had some problems landing on the uneven "high mountain desert" terrain.
I damaged one set of blades during a panic landing on what turned out to be small volcanic gravel on top of loose sand. The vibration of the tail worked it downwards and I wound up watching the heli spool down as the tail blades were getting chewed up.

So I came up with a simple tail stinger that holds the tail up and seems to be working just great.
It's just a yellow paperclip fashioned into a workable shape and size then wire wrapped and epoxied on the verticle tail fin.
Nothing mind bending here but thought I would share it.

[sd0]

Cool, I have always found my B400 seriously lacking in tail blade to ground clearance.

I wish I could fix mine with a paperclip, but I don't think thats gonna work. J/K:rolling

[ericm7030]

Wolf,

Did you sand down the roots of the Kand B blades? They are 1 mm thicker and do not go in the stock grips. I filed my grips out a little to get them in. I'm not terribly happy with the mod I did, but it works.
I was looking at maybe using the align grips for which these blades are designed.
I am unsure how the e-filte pitch slider would work with the align grips though.

I am curious as to would you did...

[SeaComms]

He's already running the Align grips and hub as well.

[ericm7030]

Is that the align pitch slider also?

I'm just trying to figure out how much of it I would have to buy to use with rest of the e-flite tail setup.

[LockMD]

Or you can put on some 600 size skids - plenty of room on mine :)

[HeliMix]

I give it an A for creativity. Looks good too. Keep us posted on how well it holds up.

[Wolfpackin]

ericm,

Yes, I tried sanding the blades to fit the stock grips at first.
It worked but I found the blades were very sloppy in the grips and I didn't like that so I went with the Align tail holder (grips and hub).
Everything works fine but I did use the B400 longer balls, from the inner swashplate, to make everything line up better.
I got that idea from sparx.
No problems with the slider.

Align Tail Holder AGNH1142
E-flite Linkage Balls EFLH1435
That's all you should need.

[ericm7030]

Wolf,

thanks so much.

I will pick the grips and hub up this weekend.

I have a spare swashplate, that I can rob the balls from.

Thanks for your help...

[LockMD]

Wolf,

thanks so much.

I will pick the grips and hub up this weekend.

I have a spare swashplate, that I can rob the balls from.

Thanks for your help...


Who's balls are you robbing, crosses legs :wow2:

[Wolfpackin]

Robbing or rubbing?

[ericm7030]

Yikes:arggg:

That didn't come out right did it...