700 Main gear stripped.

[Sieze2]

i found the link, align quality is shite.

cheers

lol very good! It only really gets annoying after the 5th though!

[Dougie]

Must add..

Paul actually went and did his first inverted climbout today and frightened the shit out of me.

Well done that man, More to come we hope.

well after seeing what we did last weekend at the flyin i thought i better grow some balls

Top man Tim for spending time with me sort out the settings

bring on the weekend mate

[Tim Procter]

lol very good! It only really gets annoying after the 5th though!

OUCH..

[SRH990]

So far the MicroHeli mod 1 main gear & pinion are holding up on my 700, just a few problems with the threads on the pinion nade fitting them a little harder than it should have been.

Last Sunday it was problems with the tail drive, an inverted wagging full stick climbout caused a pretty nasty gear stripping sound which I've heard before with the same gears. I didn't loose tail drive so landed and carried it back the the table. Taking the tail boom of with the front gearbox you could see where the straight cut gear that meshes with the auto gear had clipped the top off a couple of teeth and had taken a bit out of the middle of the teeth too. Not bad really after 120+ flights, quite a few with 100% deceleration profile on the Spartan gyro, very had on the yail drive.

[Mart61]

Sounds like a good recovery from what coulda been a major crash.

[Tim Procter]

It was only a matter of time Tim, well done on getting her down in one piece though. Whats the history of the two kits? age and so on. maybe we could find a link.

Well my first 700 that was bought last year brand new still has the original main gear fitted and has done loads more flights than the one I bought from Alec (dumbthumbit) just 6 weeks ago.

This is a much more recent kit and has done absolutely nothing compared to my original.

When I bought the kit from Alec he was honest enough to tell me in those few flights he also stripped a main gear.

Could this be a bad batch issue as my original is still running stock with no issues what so ever.

[Tom Burgess]

It is certainly interesting Tim

[SRH990]

Well my first 700 that was bought last year brand new still has the original main gear fitted and has done loads more flights than the one I bought from Alec (dumbthumbit) just 6 weeks ago.

This is a much more recent kit and has done absolutely nothing compared to my original.

I've had the same experience, bought my 700 out of the second batch and it hasn't stripped a main gear in 120 flights yet a fellow flyer at the club has a 700 that's only a couple of months old with maybe only a dozen flights on it and managed to strip a gear, even though he's running a pretty low headspeed and isn't in the manic 3D class I guess if you get the wrong end of all manufacturing tolerances things stack up.

[raptorheli2]

i have a first batch about about a 3rd batch kit. both have let a gear go now FYI.

cheers

[Tom Burgess]

Mine is first batch, so much so it has the flash canopy. I've had 3 gears let go.

[electricsceadu]

the gears have been posted this morning 1st class so they should get to you sometime next week

[moonmanflyer]

Same thing happened to me Tim, up i pipe about 3 weeks ago saying mine was fine and then it goes on me that weekend at charmouth.
Same sernario as well, just got the engine on song when it went in an tick tock, very very similar set of senarios, weird eh.
Glad you got it down alright though mate, well done.

[Tom Burgess]

Well my count has gone up to 4 as I stripped another yesterday

[electricsceadu]

i hope the gears arrived ok
how do i donate the postage you sent me to helliaddicts?

[robgt]

Just make a paypal donation for that amount, I guess

Cheers,
Rob