My New Project

admiral · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 3:25 am Post subject: My New Project

Hi Guys,

Decided it's time to try a little stand off scale, found this new body on Ebay, a guy's unstarted project, my mission the Flasher 500 into the Airwolf body.

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chopper54 · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 3:48 am Post subject: post subject

Thats gonna look a bit special.
I love scale stuff.

lightning · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:15 am Post subject:

Nothing like scale models really .They look more impressive when flying.What's the 500 flasher like to fly Keith ?
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admiral · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:39 am Post subject:

nick_onelove · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:24 am Post subject:

Subscribed. That's a nice lookin' scale body.
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admiral · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:53 pm Post subject: Update or Maybe Downdate

Hi All,

Had a bit of a setback, last Sunday took the Flasher 500 out for it's last flight before the scale body, (Good Move) had a problem with the tail, a bearing went in the tail, no problems bought it home replaced the bearing, test hover in the back under the Pergola maybe 6"~12" off the ground, looking good, whack, bang, helicopter hits the pergola roof pokes a hole throught it, and slams to the ground, problem, failed pitch link (Picture attached), a 2 cent part, about $40 dollars to fix the Helicopter, about $400 to replace the roof panel and at least a $200 plus night out to save divorce.

Who said it's a cheap Hobby.
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nick_onelove · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:49 pm Post subject:

Damn, Murphy strikes again.

Do you think it was just wear-and-tear? It is pretty scary that we rely on thin strips of plastic to hold our expensive machines' linkages together.
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Align: Trex 250 3GX + Trex 450 Pro with Vbar
Blade: 450 X, mCP X, 120 SR, mSR X, CX3, mCX2
Esky: Belt-CP X and V2 - Futaba: Heli-Max Axe 400
Walkera: V500D01, M120D01, V100D08, DEVO 8
Spektrum: DX8 - AMA #967873 - IRCHA #4095

tombo242 · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:16 am Post subject:

Sorry to see that Keith,

Looks like a vibration fracture to me but it's hard to tell from the photo.

Tom.
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admiral · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:39 am Post subject:

Thanks Nic & Thombo,

Maybe vibration, although its never had excessive vibration, never been crashed a couple of firm landing thats about it. Not taking any chances changing all of the linkages for new ones, never want to see that happen again lucky it went straight up if it the roof is repairable, I may not have been.

Won't be test hovering any helicopters on the patio again, I always had a respect for the amount of power they had, but it still took me by surprise.
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admiral · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:56 pm Post subject:

Hi Guys,

Finally decided that I need to really find our what happened, and started replacing all of the Ball Link fittings, just as well, I found a couple more that appear to be brittle, I'm now convinced that it was a ball link failure that caused the problem. Currently replacing them all will Align fittings.

Took a while to get around to it, probably have a great dose of nerves on the first test flight, that incident scarred the hell out of me.
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