My turn I suppose :D

[Dashik]

Well there I was flying around quite the thing on Sunday afternoon at Kinross and finally got the wherewithall to try looping, rolling, flipping and stall turning the 700 and I had put a couple of tanks through her when this happened!












Thing is I was just coming out of a mild stall turn everything undercontrol and the tail went. It started spinning rapidly anti-clockwise so I reckon something gave. All I could do was hit throttle hold and wait and see how bad.

What annoyed me most was I was having so much fun with her in the wind I'm not even upset! At least I was having fun with her when it happend. Its all part of flying heli's I can't understand people crying about it as its not if they go in it's usually when

Don't fly if you cant afford to crash is how I see it

I reckon I've been lucky, it's all tail damage on the boom and 1 of the servo's is seized and main blades obviously. Canopy is still mint

I still think I've been lucky, only 3rd big crash in 2 years More to come I suspect.

I think about £200 to £300 including blades and servo etc. so all in not to bad.

So as a result I went and gave my T-Rex 600n a good thrashing (well at least as good as I can at the moment )

So how long before someone blames it on Align and poor quality metal/carbon/plastic or the small child that packed it? As opposed to just plain bad luck etc?

I have a couple of prior financial commitments to sort first but it wont be long before she's back in the air Can't wait!

All in all still had a blast this weekend

[mgm2501]

sunday looked very good in Kinross.
sorry about the crash.
just repaired my 700 from last week, HN7036 Clutch/Start Shaft Set
2nd one in 5 weeks, but it's in the air again

Inverness was Blowing a gale and wet.

[callum]

I think it might be the tail shaft that might have snapped

[Dashik]

I think it might be the tail shaft that might have snapped

Now that would have been funny!

However this time the shaft looks like it took most of the impact on it and it just bent!

Score 1 for the cheeseium!

[Dashik]

Ok so I got the chance to have a quick once over and to work out what I need to fix her!

The following will do the trick

HN7021 700 M1 Upgrade Gear Assembly £22.80
HN7053 700N Metal Tail Torque Tube Unit £43.64
HN7047 Aluminum Tail Boom/Black £12.60
T-Rex700 - Pushrod holder (1pcs) - AT70109-1 £19.47
HN7079 Metal Tail Pitch Assembly £17.45
HN7056 Torque Tube £10.66
HN7043A M1 Torque Tube Front Drive Gear Set 24T £8.72
K10425 DS610 Digital Servo £44.59
HN7061 690D Carbon Fiber Blades £67.99


Sub-Total: £247.92

So for that plus the shipping I am very lucky indeed!

Hope to get the stff next week once I had another bill settled

It could have been very expensive

[alex]

ooh- not good At least you were having fun That is not too bad a crash in reality- don't know about you, but I was impressed at how robust the frame is and the protection it gives to the expensive bits.

I put my 700 in the ground this week too- I was flying in a new field which is big, sent it too far away and totally lost orientation and ended up dumping it. Crash cost was about £230 for me, but that went up to £300 including the new canopy- my excuse is that I could not see the original :P

Hope you get rebuilt and flying again soon- mine is nearly ready to go again.

[barney]

HN7053 700N Metal Tail Torque Tube Unit £43.64

Unusual to need a whole new tailbox James.

You can buy the shaft, tail pitch lever and its mount all seperately it thats what you need.

Also you can pick up a complete Trex 700 Airframe in running order around £250 giving you loads more parts for spares?

[PsiLo]

Do you need a whole new servo or just a gear set for it?

[alex]

Unusual to need a whole new tailbox James.

You can buy the shaft, tail pitch lever and its mount all seperately it thats what you need.

?

Hehe- so I found out after getting a new tail box I did not spot the tiny mount part hiding on the Fast lad site

[Dashik]

Unusual to need a whole new tailbox James.

You can buy the shaft, tail pitch lever and its mount all seperately it thats what you need.

Also you can pick up a complete Trex 700 Airframe in running order around £250 giving you loads more parts for spares?

I did not see the tail pitch arm mount on site thats the bit that bent. Got a Linky?

Found It HN7076 700N Tail Case Part Bag

One of the bearings for tail shaft is dead as well.

[Dashik]

Do you need a whole new servo or just a gear set for it?

Not sure yet. Not had chance to strip it. Trouble is it took a few minutes to get to the heli after the 'landing' so the worry is that the servo motor could be a bit suspect if it was sitting there trying to turn with knackered gears.

I'm inclined to buy a new servo anyway and keep the old one for gears/case etc.

Piece of mind is priceless