CHECK YOURS! Beam Seesaw bolt

[jiberjaber]

I totaly forgot about this issue and neglected to check mine. I had seen it mentioned on other forums where with a high head speed some people had seen one of the screws which hold in the seesaw work loose.



I neglected to check mine and suffered a full positive pitch inverted crash last weekend. I was puzzled at the loss of control when I had flipped over, this screw had worked loose and fowled the seesaw mixing arm resulting in loss of control of the pitch.

Quite a big crash resulted, so please check yours to see that it is still screwed in.

[richieclarkie]

If you want to be extra sure I would suggest using red loktite (carefully) in that area.

Thansk for letting us know Jason.

[jiberjaber]

Yes - I used blue but somehow I managed to only locktite one side from what I could make out! Anyhow - fixed now

[divad68]

H Jason, sorry to hear about the crash and hope you've managed to get your Beam airworthy again.

I read about this issue before I started my build so even though this part was pre-assembled on my kit I still removed both bolts to check for loctite. I was was expecting them to come out easily and that there would be no threadlock, but they were both stubborn to remove and were covered with the stuff. I guess you must have been unlucky and there was no threadlock applied at the factory to yours.

David

Ahh, I've the replies must have arrived when I was typing. So you did apply loctite then. I hope I did both sides!

[moonmanflyer]

Sorry to hear about your crash mate, i will check my sons today to make sure

[rspblake]

It was one of the reports sent back to the factory ages ago, I’ve always made a point of saying to people to check, as it's part of the preassemble section.
The last 50 or more kits everyone that I have emailed or spoken too has said that it was locktite correct.
Yours is from the 1st batch over and one of the 1st so was never told lol..

[jiberjaber]

No worries Rob - like I said, I had seen the note, and I even think I might have taken them out to locktite, I suspect it was in the middle / towards the end of a bottle of red wine, hence I did one side and not the other

[rspblake]

That red wine get's you everytime!

[gasgasbones]

I see your problem here, you drank the loctite and used the red wine on the bolts