Building me heli.

[Mike229]

Building me heli x400. There is no meantion of grease or any lube what so ever in the build manuel. Should i be greasin and if so what type of grease should i be useing.

[Raptorite]

Hi Mike,

I would say that if there is no mention in the manual about using greese then you dont need any. Most of the nylon type gears used in micro electric helis are so say self lubricating. The only really important thing about the gears is to insure that the meshing is right.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Pete.

[Mike229]

Thanks for that. Just trying the flight sim Reflex XTR. But dont know if controles are doing what they should?
Mode 3 Heli faceing away from me.

Left stick throttle. Stick up Heli up. Stick down heli down?
Left stick rudder. Stick left Heli nose right. Stick right Heli nose left?
Right stick Pitch. Stick up Heli nose down. Stick down heli nose up?
Right stick Ailron. Stick right heli leans right. Stick left heli leans left?

does elivator = pitch
soory must sound stupid

[Ade_Law]

This is for what we call "mode 2" different modes put different controls in different places, the other common one is mode 1 where the throttle and elevator are swapped with each other to the left/right stick.

Left stick;

Left = NOSE left
Right = NOSE right
Forward = more collective pitch = heli goes UP
Back = less collective pitch = Heli goes DOWN

Right stick;

Left = rolls/tilts left = Left Cyclic pitch
Right = rolls/tilts right = Right Cyclic pitch
Foward = Elevator/Foward cyclic pitch = nose DOWN
Back = Elevator/back cyclic pitch = nose UP

should make a bit more sense