Carbon Fiber Landing Skids?

[heliphlier]

So I purchased a set of the carbon fiber landing skids from RC Canada as they were so cheap along with so many more bits and pieces for my Warp. I just began to rebuild my Atom 5.5 and decided to use these carbon skids. I went to mount them when I noticed there must be some sort of brackets or something else I needed to purchase in order to mount them. I have checked everywhere with no success even finding pictures of said part. If there is in fact a necessary part I am missing. I have read good things at least what little I have been able to conger up. I know many people have mounted them and if just one of those fine folks could chime in I would greatly appreciate it. As always thanks so much.

[heliphlier]

I definitely have something wrong here. I just put the original gears back together and they have the same problem of not fitting in. Then when its in it would be impossible to put the rest together and line up. Just way to thick


FIXED and you obviously see why. My DUMBA** had the darn thing upside down. I haven't messed with the Atom for over a year and I just didn't remember how it went together.

I am sorry to waste any ones time and opening an unnecessary Thread. I apologize profusely.
Please don't give me too hard of a time.

[cyclo]

Glad you figured it out!

[ARM_Coder]

I understand what happened. Most helis (and especially the ubiquitous T-Rex) have the main gear above the tail gear. The Atoms 5 & 6 have the gears "upside down" so to speak.

[hrefab]

Not a wasted thread at all. I'm sure that others have made this mistake. So it's nice to see it figured out here.

[cyclo]

One tip regarding the stretched Atom gear is to apply bicycle wax lube on it. Without lube the pinion will slowly eat away the gear teeth. The lube slows down this process considerably.

[heliphlier]

I sort of changed the thread as not to waste time and space. I am now trying to mount the carbon fiber skids from RC Canada. There must be a bracket I am missing.

[SamCassidy]

There is a metal aluminum bracket, there is a picture on here somewhere I'm sure

[SamCassidy]

[heliphlier]

I can't seem to find one or purchase anywhere. I have the skids with no way of mounting them.

[tc_racer]

Here's a picture of the skids. RChelicanada sold the skid "kit" and also sold spare CF skids (without the brackets) as replacements. It seems you purchased the replacement skids only.

[aburkhardt]

FYI, the CF skids break more often than the aluminum mounting bracket.