Boxing day pitch gauge question!

[gazza]

Hi all & merry christmas!

Just setting zero pitch at 50% stick on the Swift & I have a question
The blades are stock wooden 515mm...

I have the blades reading exactly zero degrees 10cm in from the tips and all the way to the root, (Both blades) but the very tips of the blades read minus 2 degrees (Both blades ) I'm sure the blades are manufactured with 'Twist' but which am I to set to read zero? The tips or what?!!

Common sense tells me to ignore the tips as long as they are both in track but I just want to be sure fellas.

[3dbasher]

weird i thought reflex blades are for the F3C boys are you sure there supposed to be like that?
If so i'd got with the majority and whatever pitch reading you get on the most of the blade

[gazza]

weird i thought reflex blades are for the F3C boys are you sure there supposed to be like that?

I assumed so mate due to them both being the same??
Maybe they've both just warped to the same degree

[3dbasher]

Maybe they've both just warped to the same degree

Unlikely but not impossible

[Ade_Law]

woodies can warp i have seen it a few times where they have been stored off the heli and not left flat.

or you could be using the pitch gauge wrong.

i dont like them they are easy to use incorrectly and any stiffness in the linkages will give you a missreading too.

Ade

[gazza]

woodies can warp i have seen it a few times where they have been stored off the heli and not left flat.

or you could be using the pitch gauge wrong.

i dont like them they are easy to use incorrectly and any stiffness in the linkages will give you a missreading too.

Ade

Hiya mate.
I've freed all the linkages already & I'm using the TT pitch gauge.

I've confirmed the readings by turning the gauge upside down & establishing the same readings with the flybar & swashplate level.

Could just be a case of cheap Century wooden blades warping

Ps I've not had the blades stored off the heli & they've always been in a blade caddy.

Thanks fellas

[gazza]

weird i thought reflex blades are for the F3C boys

Ps I was wondering why my flying has been so precise alately

[David Drew]

Gazza,

Just checked my Swift woodies.

One reads -4,-4,-4 the other -6, -5, -6.

They track fine so I can only think it's a bit of distortion to one blade compensated for by tracking adjustment.

Are Fibre blades any better. More accurate?

David

[gazza]

Are Fibre blades any better. More accurate?

David

I would say so mate. Century are out of stock on the 515mm carbons. ( £39.99)

Thanks for checking David I'll just ignore the tips then as they are in track and the rest of both blades reads zero.

[abyiss]

as long as there trcking-in in hover,,,,,go 4 it,,

wouldnt trust woodies in if i was payed to fly with them,,,not 4 me..

as this is what woodies do then thay shatter..in hover,,

[gazza]

Aye I know mate, which is why I didnt like the idea of doin loops with em'

I'll get some carbons as soon as this boring restrictive anti-flying festive period is thru!

But...Collecting Rappy this week so hmmmm I predict a stripped out Swift