frugal or tight?

[pgkevet]

I'm always looking to save on repairs. When I do have to buy spares (sadly frequent on my bashers) then I check at least three sites on price and make sure that includes post costs.

I had a little triumph today with the 500.. tail output shaft was bent in the last encounter when a tail grip bolt sheared. I had kept the last replacement output shaft where I'd stripped the gear so i had a good gear and a good shaft. It turns out that the gear is pressed on to a splined portion of the shaft and proved possible to swap the good one over to the good shaft. Reassembled it's all smooth. Looking closely at the front tt the black gear will also be pressed onto a spline. The white gear I'v tried to remove before.. has a little pin through it but so far my one go at filing it off and tapping through was dismal: won't stop me trying again.

I also managed to restraighten the torque tube itself today. I haven't measured yet but reckon there's a good chance the tt diameter is the same as the skids. If so then broken tt's can be recycled by making up a mini pipe bender.

[Boggy]

if the cap fits wear it! If the broken bits fit bonus!! :-)

[electricsceadu]

i wouldn't look too close at a scale model
many have recycled parts to make the scale detailing

[dogbiscuit]

your a man after my own heart..... save the pennies and repair it or improvise

[pug907]

Frugal is just a polite way of saying tight, whereas recycling is just plain resourceful. As long as you don't start straightening skid tubes to make TT's you'll be fine

[milly0812]

frugal or tight?

Tight

[panosg]

your a man after my own heart..... save the pennies and repair it or improvise

I thought you going to reply Harv....lol

If there is no safety issue and you have plenty of time and energy to repair broken things, then why not!
Me? Nah, the quickest way to get up and flying again is to renew the item(s). I have accepted that this hobby costs money, ( same like any other hobby ).

Each to there own!

[pgkevet]

....Me? Nah, the quickest way to get up and flying again is to renew the item(s). I have accepted that this hobby costs money, ( same like any other hobby ). Each to there own!

It's as much about being pigged off at the rip-offs more than the actual money.

If we take trex TT gears as an example it'd be easy to make the tail output gear removable steel on the shaft and the you'ld only have to swap that cheapo mushroom part. Same with the front gear.. make the (black) one replacebale plastic and the white end steel and also only have to stamp out the same mushrooms. It's right that there are sacfirical bits but why make both interconnecting bits sacrificial when it only has to be one part.

I'm quite suprised that no upgrade company has made them

We all know you can buy a tiny handful of parts for silly money in this hobby

[dogbiscuit]

It's as much about being pigged off at the rip-offs more than the actual money.

If we take trex TT gears as an example it'd be easy to make the tail output gear removable steel on the shaft and the you'ld only have to swap that cheapo mushroom part. Same with the front gear.. make the (black) one replacebale plastic and the white end steel and also only have to stamp out the same mushrooms. It's right that there are sacfirical bits but why make both interconnecting bits sacrificial when it only has to be one part.

I'm quite suprised that no upgrade company has made them

We all know you can buy a tiny handful of parts for silly money in this hobby

totally agree about the torque tube gears.....but to be honest and take it a stage further, I dont even know why i am using them (align helis) when likes of the logo's and goblins that my mates fly alongside me use a belt and fly better anyway. do we really even need the torque tube and subsequent gear stripping hastles?

[pgkevet]

.... do we really even need the torque tube and subsequent gear stripping hastles?

I wnt hrough more hassles than I want to repeat with align belts. 450 belst always shredding or snapping, 500 belts and needs to ground everything, 600 belts were robust but somehow stuff was always needing adjusting. There are still moans from those aletrnative brand belt owners who report them about pulleys breakings etc. The grass is not greener. And if the belt pulleys were made from the dame plastic our tt gears are made from they'd last seconds.

[electricsceadu]

i've just fell off my chair
someone saying belts are better these days
and i thought if you didn't run torque tube drive youre billy no mates sat in the corner

my hirobo belted model don't have issues with the belts
the old shuttle did get the odd belt adjustment or two but it was crashed every other week

i will say i didn't have much luck on my tt x50's belt as it needed constant adjustment but i'm told the rappy titan belt was the one to use on it, i cured it with the torque tube conversion kit


my trex 600 belt only needed adjusting every few months
and the 450's belt is a consumable item, when it snaps just replace it

[ModelGuard.Com]

Re: frugal or tight?

You can straighten tail booms with a piece of dowelling, like a broomstick. we used to do it all the time on concept helis back in the day. Perfect for belts torque tubes need a tad more precision planishing