What happened to the Spider Gear thread ?

[Bayward]

What happend to the thread ? He posted yesterday that he had a set of the X-gear for me and would update the web site this morning. The web site was not updated by mid day and now the thread is gone ?

Is X-Gear gone also ?

Bob

[r40734]

Bob,

http://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=73518&highlight=spider+gear

http://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=68978&highlight=spider+gear

http://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=73515&highlight=spider+gear

http://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=73684&highlight=spider+gear

And a lot more:
http://www.helifBreak.com/search.php?searchid=1453618 (http://www.helifreak.com/search.php?searchid=1453618)

The website works fine for me.

http://www.xgearheli.com/

He says the Mini Titan is ready to ship, if that is what you are asking about.

[Bayward]

I see, the thread I was inquiring about seems to have been moved from this forum to manufacturers section. Thanks.

The web site works for me also and the Spider Gear is listed as being for sale. It is the X-Gear that I am interested in and was supposed to be on the web site yesterday morning.

Bob

[r40734]

Ahh... now I understand.

[jpheli]

I'm just waiting mail boy to ring door bell... should get my spider gear today :lol::lol:

well it's good, had a rough landing last weekend and skid is now patched with 2mm metal wire :smokin:


Can't wait till i can mount it on to my MT.

--jp

[jpheli]

Finally mail delivery guy visited at my door :noteworthy:noteworthy

I got them and they look great. Few of those alu parts are a bit sharp, so don't assemble them on livingroom table ;)

First impression of them:
- CNC work looks good and finished nicely
- Original pipes are kinda heavy but we knew that already and I can always change them to Align pipes.
- 2 x hex pipe locking screws was missing

Mounting screw holes are a bit tight so be careful when screwing, I broke one of my screws when it went to wrong helix and got stuck. Good thing is that I got it cleared and fixes it's helix.

One thing that I do miss on that bottom plate, is a hole from where I can check my motor pinion. Gotta send email about it to Matt at XGear.

Here is few pics of content and also how it looks when mounted to my bird :thumbup:

Now at next flight, I just need to check balance of my bird and maybe move a bit those skid pipes.

Oh yeah, I did miss 2 skid pipe hex lock screws and the rest two was using US system and not metric. Oh yeah, they are made in US.... Well no problem, didn't have any small hex tool for US nuts so I did use tip of kitchen knife and changed those. Now my pipes will stay properly :)

--jp

[r40734]

Well, that sucks. We do like our measurement system over here, but if you're going to sell internationally, concessions have to be made to accommodate the metric system.

It sounds like some fine tuning needs to be done to the process and packaging dept.

[sandtrx]

Hi Guys, After a couple of hectic weeks, i've got the website updated and the X-Gear for the Mini-Titan is available for sale, (Bayward, I have your X-Gear ready to ship). The Blade 400 Spider Gear is also ready for shipping.

JP, I do apologize about the missing set screws, I'm usually really good about double checking everything, I'm glad you got it handled though. I will add a hole for the pinion on the next run of the stiffener plates per your request. You can drill your own inspection hole without losing any of the strength though if you'd like.

Not to be one sided about the english system at all, but everything that i have going right now is in the english system. At this point, I could see myself getting all mixed up on filling orders having metric and english parts intermingled, so for now, I'm going to leave everything on the english system (less of a chance of screwing up)

It is very possible that I will accomodate the metric system later on down the road though, by converting everything to the metric system, I wouldn't feel comfortable having both though as there would be too much room for error.