one Girl's Rave ENV Build or "pink my Rave"

[Mslater]

the answer to "the pink bit"

Thats the conclusion I had come to. (well almost)

Keep up the build !!!!!

[rachel]

Hi everone just a mini update

As promissed the Flybarless conversion kit arrived this morning from Mark christy
It just looks sooooooooooo nice so clean and uncluttered

I must say a HUGE THANK YOU to Mark for providing these parts FREE yes FREE , I am so humbled by his kind action

I only hope I can give back to the fantastic model heli hobby even half of the time & now parts that others have done.

HUGS Mark & ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!

oh a picture just to make Pete green with envy !!!! don't worrk pete your Aura will come one day.

[Eckchaz]

I must say a HUGE THANK YOU to Mark for providing these parts FREE yes FREE.

Does Mark do free heli's? lol.. lucky you.. cant wait for photos of the finished product!!

[Pulsar]

In the reply they sent you Rachel, I really like the way they explain the reason behind use of material in the helicopter , you can get a better understanding how the machine was born from a engineers mind.

Keep the pictures coming, it a interesting thread.

[muscleflex]

Oh I forgot to mention ,.........

Anyone need any Punto Spares only 53K from new one carefull owner mint condition

'S x Rachel

parts are not compatible with a 2002 model, is it? my girlfriend has a punto and the links for her wipers keep popping off (a common problem i have been told)

[rachel]

parts are not compatible with a 2002 model, is it? my girlfriend has a punto and the links for her wipers keep popping off (a common problem i have been told)

Hummm not to sure

But I can check for you

[chris jones2.4]

what transmitter do you have rachel, will it do 140 degree ccpm

[rachel]

what transmitter do you have rachel, will it do 140 degree ccpm

hi its a DSX9 so I could go 140 degree but ,........ apparently 120 is better for flybarless ???????????

[chris jones2.4]

cool, mark christy was running the 140

[rachel]

cool, mark christy was running the 140

Mark sent me this ,

120/140 CCPM for the majority of us

it doesn't make any difference at all. Back in the day when the software in the transmitters wasn't so good Curtis invented 140 to equalise the distance between the mainshaft and the servo arms. Without doing this you got a collective ripple on the swashplate when moving the elevator stick. However as servos have improved and the software in the transmitters too this can mostly be tuned out without going for 140. The downside of 140 is that you now have two servos on one side of the swashplate using the same leverage distance as one servo on the other side. So under heavy loads the two servos will keep up better than the one. Curtis recommends that for a flybar model you run 140 but for flybarless (where the loads are higher on the servos) to run 120. However for the majority of us pilots the difference is so small that we can live with either setup.

I think I fall into the "us pilots" bracket

[rachel]

Ok sorry for the lack of an update yesterday i am afraid life just got in the way

so whats been going on well I started the rotorhead and stopped dead ,.. why,... because the flybarless one looked sooooooo smooth and uncluttered , now several people have given me the sound advice of build the flybared model then convert it when its sorted, hummm sound advice but,..... at my peril I have ignored them (sorry Mark C )
I am going straight to the Total G flybarless set up

last night whilst working late I watched CYP's Brian's (hi Brian) Total G video's all 93 of them (joke) and wow total rocket science

Thankfully a fellow club member is going the total G route so I guess I will be chatting to him a lot.

Ok back to the build I have built the Tail gearbox which is very much a scaled up 450 item but went together perfectly and is amaisingly strong and very well thought out especially in the way it fixes too the boom (Align take note!) there is absolutly no way the tail gearbox could come off its bolted, clamped, pinned and press fitted so its on for good.

The torque tube is nice too , aluminium , strong but two support bearings , nice !

I have found that so far its a builders machine virtually no assembally is done for you but it all fits so far no drilling or filling here, very very nice,

Just remember it's not an Align bilng monster !!!

Off too pink up the canopy now !

more soon

's xxxxxxxxxxxx Rachel

[cupracing]

looks well engineered IMO, if only I had the room for one. Keep the updates coming Rachel

[alex]

I actually saw a couple of Raves in the flesh at Charmouth and was really impressed- they look great, fly great and look like they crash pretty well too ( if you know what I mean)

[steve_b]

I may end up doing the same as you Rachel and converting a FB ENV to FBL. The FBL ENVs don't seem to be any nearer shipping to the UK and I think I know where a FB ENV is still available so I may be going shopping this weekend

[rachel]

I may end up doing the same as you Rachel and converting a FB ENV to FBL. The FBL ENVs don't seem to be any nearer shipping to the UK and I think I know where a FB ENV is still available so I may be going shopping this weekend

I would definatly go that way as its way more expensive to convert flybarless to flybared

I have the part no's to do this if you need them

Good luck and go for it life is short !!!!!!!!!!