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Hello I'm Steve C, this is my first post, and I thought I'd start with a contribution.
I have the Twister Skylift, and I have discovered that it voraciously consumes what to me seem like over priced parts. Here's what I have been doing to avoid paying around a tenner a crash.
1. The landing legs break real easy, at a fiver a pair (none are interchangeable either side to side or front to back). I've found that straightforward breaks can be repaired, first with super glue, then beefed up with heat shrink tubing, shrunk on after first putting down a layer of more superglue. Use black tubing, and be sensible with the glue and it does not show!
2. When the lower rotor head lugs wot hold the blades break, then rather than paying up to 8 quid a throw, you can remove the busted one, carefully drill out the old lugs (I piloted first with a three quarter mil watchmakers pin drill) then went in and out the other side with the right drill, I sized it by placing the drill shanks into the blade hole, until I found the right size drill, and then, (here's the bit I'm proud of), the shaft of a cotton wool bud goes straight through the rotor head, and gets the supergluing. I cut it to length after gluing it in. Then carefully pass the right size drill down the rotor head (Where the drive shaft goes) to seperate the now hopefully superglued cotton wool bud shaft. It's not that 8 quid is so much, but fixing it returned it to service quicker than trying to buy a replacement part...
3. The blades can be replaced with an assembly made up from some eflite cnc parts originally sold for teh Blade CX which connect to the rotor heads, and allow the fittting of a range of much cheaper "other helicopter" blades. I favour the white blades fitted to the double-horse 9089 type heli's but although I have the parts laid up, haven't actually done this mod yet.
Thats all for now, hope it helps someone somewhere.
I have the Twister Skylift, and I have discovered that it voraciously consumes what to me seem like over priced parts. Here's what I have been doing to avoid paying around a tenner a crash.
1. The landing legs break real easy, at a fiver a pair (none are interchangeable either side to side or front to back). I've found that straightforward breaks can be repaired, first with super glue, then beefed up with heat shrink tubing, shrunk on after first putting down a layer of more superglue. Use black tubing, and be sensible with the glue and it does not show!
2. When the lower rotor head lugs wot hold the blades break, then rather than paying up to 8 quid a throw, you can remove the busted one, carefully drill out the old lugs (I piloted first with a three quarter mil watchmakers pin drill) then went in and out the other side with the right drill, I sized it by placing the drill shanks into the blade hole, until I found the right size drill, and then, (here's the bit I'm proud of), the shaft of a cotton wool bud goes straight through the rotor head, and gets the supergluing. I cut it to length after gluing it in. Then carefully pass the right size drill down the rotor head (Where the drive shaft goes) to seperate the now hopefully superglued cotton wool bud shaft. It's not that 8 quid is so much, but fixing it returned it to service quicker than trying to buy a replacement part...
3. The blades can be replaced with an assembly made up from some eflite cnc parts originally sold for teh Blade CX which connect to the rotor heads, and allow the fittting of a range of much cheaper "other helicopter" blades. I favour the white blades fitted to the double-horse 9089 type heli's but although I have the parts laid up, haven't actually done this mod yet.
Thats all for now, hope it helps someone somewhere.
