Align trex 600 FBL blade grips

[Predbasher]

Anyone know if you need to use the FBL blade grips on the align head or will the plastic ones do the same job? Converting T-rex 600N but want to keep the cost to minimum. Can't seem to find anyone selling the head only these days.

[waveydavey]

Some have used the plastic grips but the distance from the mainshaft is less on the plastic ones than on the dedicated ones, reducing the throw and I think you will introduce negative delta because the ball links aren't long enough.

Your after as neutral a setup as possible

[BobJ]

Hi

There is a big difference between the flybared and flybarless grips, the pivot ball is located much further out on the FBL ones, if you use the origenal grips then I am sure it would work but how well I am not so sure about, mainly as you would have to cut the travels down a lot and loose a lot of resolution.
You could either fit the FBL grips to the existing head centre or probably cut the pitch arm on the origenal grips and bolt a plate to this to extent the pivot ball further out.

Cheers
Bob

[johnsandywhite]

There are some useful tips to convert to FBL without having to buy the FBL head:-

http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/align-...onversion.html

Trex 600 Flybarless - HeliFreak

CSM Flybarless Conversion Guide (T-Rex 600)

[J-S-Q]

There are some useful tips to convert to FBL without having to buy the FBL head:-

http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/align-...onversion.html

Trex 600 Flybarless - HeliFreak

CSM Flybarless Conversion Guide (T-Rex 600)

Yes, if you want to keep it cheap, you can use the original grips and convert as per the threads above. Works perfectly.

[Predbasher]

Thanks for the tips I'll look in to those ideas. Would be easy to buy the head as a unit but doesn't seem to be available anywhere. Buying the individual components is an option but works out quite expensive.