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Post by mike on Apr 1, 2012 16:24:33 GMT -4
Yeah thanks the news chopper took me 6 months to complete. It was a nice flying helicopter.
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Post by Chris Reibert on Apr 1, 2012 17:41:54 GMT -4
Is the 600 going into the Little Bird?
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Post by mike on Apr 1, 2012 17:53:37 GMT -4
No I have a 600 size g jive in red waiting for the chaos 600. I am using my trex 500 for the little bird since its a 500 size.
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Post by Chris Reibert on Apr 1, 2012 18:13:28 GMT -4
AWESOME!
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Post by mike on Apr 1, 2012 19:39:36 GMT -4
Alright a little help here I am working on my aileron control linkage, and have many brass washers what is the order they are put on. The manual I'm using is the chaos 600 and it is using the older control linkage. I have looked at the align manual and it uses two different thickness of washers. I assembled it first in the order the screw with small washer against the aileron control linkage then had a brass washer on the back side with the silver control shaft collar followed by another brass washer then pushed against the side frame. With both sides assembled like this i did not have enough to thread both screws in before bearings became notchy and tight. Did I put to many brass washers on. Mike
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Post by Chris Reibert on Apr 1, 2012 20:14:11 GMT -4
I had the same issue. I just used the silver stand offs and then the aileron links, loctite, and the screws w/ washer on the outside. Everything lined up great, no slop, and moves perfectly smooth.
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Post by mike on Apr 1, 2012 20:41:47 GMT -4
Yeah that is what I just did and it is smooth and free. I did put the washers in a caliper and one is .2 mm and the other is .5mm thick. I thought I might of had them backwards but tried it as the align manual and still to tight and notchy.mi took them out and smooth as you said. I don't really think .7mm is going to hurt but will see.
Mike
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Post by Chris Reibert on Apr 1, 2012 21:31:18 GMT -4
The 600 is a new bird to me as well, I will try to help as much as possible. My old Trex 550 was my biggest electric. Hopefully you and I can keep building these together and if you have questions I can't answer the guys will be able to answer them for us Keep on building, gonna look sweet inside the G-jive! Chris
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Post by mike on Apr 1, 2012 23:04:04 GMT -4
Chris,
I understand I have switched to electrics and not looked back. The 600 is the largest electric I have had and seems smooth building so far. Yeah I'm the same way any questions I can help out with let me know as well.
Mike
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Post by chipwich on Apr 3, 2012 20:41:20 GMT -4
**waits patiently to see how this one will turn out**
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Post by mike on Apr 3, 2012 21:24:37 GMT -4
Chip,
How is the scale bold coming on the 600, just wondering I should the chaos built this weekend and then will pull the g jive out and start fitting parts.
Mike
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Post by chipwich on Apr 4, 2012 12:45:23 GMT -4
I got side tracked by the afore mentioned control horns. My kit came with a mal formed control shaft collar. One was fine, but the other was unusable. I called RCA to request a new one, and they sent me a package with the whole group. But this time, included were the symmetrical shaped control horns without the collars. I am also assuming that the collars were hard to come by, hence the substitution, and that these will work fine on my kit. I haven't had time to try the new setup yet due to work obligations, but should be back at the build this weekend in earnest. I did figure out the follower, so was reading this thread, especially the discussion of bearing plate orientation. Did you leave yours inverted, which I suppose would make it correct if the heli is inverted
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Post by mike on Apr 4, 2012 18:23:56 GMT -4
Chipwich,
I guess if I fly inverted two of the three bearing blocks would be wrong, so guess I will just have to fly with one upside down. All joking aside though I don't think it is going to hurt it. I am going to send an email in to ask and wonder if the two versions have a slight difference in tolerance and that is why. I have been looking at the align 600esp and nitro and chaos manual. The align uses those brass washers as a spacer to remove play. That is the reason for the two different thickness of washer. I looked at the align electric control shaft and it is 85mm the nitro is 88mm. With the chaos modeled after the nitro I think the reason we do not need spacers is the chaos comes with the ESP control shaft which is 85mm. I am going to work on mine this weekend and measure it and see.
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Post by chipwich on Apr 5, 2012 21:30:48 GMT -4
Thanks Mike. I assembled my new control shaft last night, first with all of the washers. There was a little too much binding, so out came one washer on each side. Now one side is perfect and the other has a tiny bit of bind. I wonder how much is acceptable and should I try it without washers. Or maybe just give it a tap. On another note, I had purchased 2 Turnigy 6s 5000 packs to use for test flying the mechanics. The plan was to convert everything to EC5 style connectors, and to that end I desoldered one of the 5.5 bullet connectors. Then I realized that there is no way the 8 gauge leads (what Turnigy uses) we're going to fit an EC5, well at least with my newb soldering skills. In fact after tinning the tips, I couldn't even get them into 5.5 bullets. Defeated, I took them to Atlanta Hobby. They agreed to do the repair, but funny thing is, I got a call a couple hours later and they said that they were having trouble with the 5.5s, and would I mind 8mm that are coming in from CC. Feel free to pile on.
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Post by Dr. Evil on Apr 5, 2012 22:08:34 GMT -4
On another note, I had purchased 2 Turnigy 6s 5000 packs to use for test flying the mechanics. The plan was to convert everything to EC5 style connectors, and to that end I desoldered one of the 5.5 bullet connectors. Then I realized that there is no way the 8 gauge leads (what Turnigy uses) we're going to fit an EC5, well at least with my newb soldering skills. In fact after tinning the tips, I couldn't even get them into 5.5 bullets. Defeated, I took them to Atlanta Hobby. They agreed to do the repair, but funny thing is, I got a call a couple hours later and they said that they were having trouble with the 5.5s, and would I mind 8mm that are coming in from CC. Feel free to pile on. I had those issues as well with my FlightMax from HK. What I did was just cut a small amount of copper wiring to make it fit into those EC5 connectors, not sure if that was a good thing to do but its done..LOL.
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