Mini Titan Build Advice please!

[ed_vh]

I can barely contain my excitment. Due to the wonders of parcel tracking I can see that my mini titan and all the kit to go with it has arrived at my home! I now have to suffer a whole day at work knowing it is there waiting for me!!!!!

Anyway to fill in the time and biting fingers I wondered if anybody has any build advice for me. This is my first proper heli so please include the idiots guide. I have heard a lot of stories of servo ball and links being changed and servo supports being trimmed for 65mg cyclic servos etc. Any advice or links to good advice appreciated!

Come on clock, faster faster!

Ed
PS kit is Mini Titan, futaba 2.4Ghx 6ex Tx/Rx, 65Mg's and S9257 on tail, 401 gyro, stock motor and ESC.

[robgt]

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Cheers,
Rob

[sabre2]

Ed

You're in for a treat - it's top fun to build and fly. The instructions are excellent - clear English, great drawings. Read each section twice before wading in. I have a tray with a white base and sides that I assembled each bit in. That way you can cut the relevant bag open and tip it in the tray without fear of losing tiny bits. Also, when you fumble a screw, it just drops in the tray. You have a tiny (Philips? Pozi? Not sure) screwdriver? You'll need one for the smallest screws, plus a range of small metric allen keys.

The collective swash movement is DOWN to INCREASE collective pitch, but cyclic swash movement is as you'd expect. Confused the hell out of me, and required some radio manual reading to sort.

The manual tells you to cyano the tailboom in place, but if you do (like I did!) then you can't remove it easily.

The general suggestion is to put the gyro inside the frames, after you've set it up.

I haven't mucked about with the balls; just used the stock ones. Nothing's fallen off yet.

There's a bag of spare screws/balls/etc, so don't stress if you do have the odd 'ping' while you're building.

I really didn't find any 'gotcha's in the building - it went together as described and once I'd set the pitch and throttle curves up per the manual (you have a pitch gauge?) it flew fine off the board.

I've spent a few quid on metal bits but to be honest I don't think I'd bother if I was doing it again. I haven't used the wooden blades, but they don't have a great rep. I use the Radix ones.

Flight durations are 10-12mins, hovering forward flight, rough and ready aeros. I've always landed before the lipo alarm.

Have fun.
John

[Fixxxer]

That pretty much sums it up, just lube the head dampers and put the tail servo on the opposite side of where the manual tells you to, will help to preserve it in the event of a boom strike. Gain should be somewhere around 65-70.

The wooden blades supplied are crap to be blunt. They will definately need balancing but thier real amp pullers and will stress you batt and motor although they do track well ! I've just smashed a set of CF blades and have put some align 325 pro black's on, they track very well, look the business and sound sweet while providing decent lift and less stressful on your components but the best bit is thier only &#163;10. Best money you can spend to start with but you'll need spacers or some 1mm plastic as the stock woddies are 7mm I think and the align's are 5mm.

Have fun, it's a great heli.

[pompeyjohn]

... put some align 325 pro black's on, they track very well, look the business and sound sweet while providing decent lift and less stressful on your components but the best bit is thier only £10. Best money you can spend to start with ...

do you have a link

[Fixxxer]

Here ya go, there's also Red if you prefer http://fast-lad.co.uk/store/index.php?cPath=49_137_59

[Bunter]

I can barely contain my excitment. Due to the wonders of parcel tracking I can see that my mini titan and all the kit to go with it has arrived at my home! I now have to suffer a whole day at work knowing it is there waiting for me!!!!!

Anyway to fill in the time and biting fingers I wondered if anybody has any build advice for me. This is my first proper heli so please include the idiots guide. I have heard a lot of stories of servo ball and links being changed and servo supports being trimmed for 65mg cyclic servos etc. Any advice or links to good advice appreciated!

Come on clock, faster faster!

Ed
PS kit is Mini Titan, futaba 2.4Ghx 6ex Tx/Rx, 65Mg's and S9257 on tail, 401 gyro, stock motor and ESC.

Hi Ed

I've just started building one as well (first heli build) but as I'm finding time hard to come by at the moment, I've barely started really. You will need to trim the servo supports for the 65mg, that is what I have going in mine. Ball and link fit does seem to be a bit hit and miss - some are way too tight and some too loose, it will take a bit of patience getting them all right.

Cheers

Bill

PS - Should we move this to the Mini Titan section?

[Bunter]

That pretty much sums it up, just lube the head dampers and put the tail servo on the opposite side of where the manual tells you to, will help to preserve it in the event of a boom strike. Gain should be somewhere around 65-70.

I've already done the bit of the head with the dampers in and when you say lube them do you mean lube the feathering shaft that goes through them or lube the whole of the red rubber damper?

The instructions didn't say to pack the thrust bearing with grease but I did that.

Thanks

Bill (also on Helifreaks as Bunter).

[ed_vh]

Well just unpackaed the box and found the heli already assembled by the shop that sold it too me. Great I first thought they have done that for free. I then found a loose part and went oh no, I am going to have to take it to bits and put it back together properly!

Oh well....

[Fixxxer]

I've already done the bit of the head with the dampers in and when you say lube them do you mean lube the feathering shaft that goes through them or lube the whole of the red rubber damper?

I just put some grease on the inner of each damper and a little in the middle of the hub, if you put it on the feathering shaft and then slide it thru most just gets left on the outside.

[stuartetheridge]

Well just unpackaed the box and found the heli already assembled by the shop that sold it too me. Great I first thought they have done that for free. I then found a loose part and went oh no, I am going to have to take it to bits and put it back together properly!

Oh well....

To be honest you are as well to go through the process anyway. That way if and when you need to do repairs you will have a far better idea of how everything works.

I built mine a little while ago and found the build a breeze and I'm still stunned at how well it flies for such an economical piece of kit.
Fully agree with the other guys - the stock blades are pretty poor, well worth investing in some decent ones as it will make the world of difference.

Stu

[Bunter]

I just put some grease on the inner of each damper and a little in the middle of the hub, if you put it on the feathering shaft and then slide it thru most just gets left on the outside.

Thanks Fixxer - what about the soaking them in silicone oil that I saw in the tracking thread on helifreaks? Would you recommend doing that as a matter of course during the build or only if you get tracking problems?

Cheers

Bill

[Fixxxer]

I can't really see that making much diffrence imo, the rubber won't soak up the silicone I doubt but I may be wrong. just lube for now. If you should have tracking problems then the best fix seems to be replacing the mixer arms for ally ones. There was the blade grip fix which meant shortening the grip lever where the ball screws in but I tried this and didn't make any real headway. I think TT have since revised the design and they have a webbing type structure around the lever now.