Summer 2014

[helijohn]

Is my Eolo really extinct? I won't fire it up in case I wreck it but, apart from using it as a pretty ornament, what else am I supposed to do with it?

[NiceBlades]

Not sure what to do with mine either, probably sell it but don't know what to ask for it or if anyone would want it. Was toying with the idea if putting servos in and flying a fly barred machine for a change.

[helijohn]

Not sure what to do with mine either,

Mine sat on the shelf for a long time and then I converted it to lipo and brushless motor hoping to make it sort of future proof; I think I achieved that. Now I am concerned about parts plus last time I crashed it the TT was a total pain to sort out.

However, I am sure I won't be selling it nor will I remove things like servos.

I suppose my dilemma is do I fly it or not.

Answer.....not.

[trillian]

To keep flying Robbes these days you have to just grab spares when they become available. This is what I started doing a few years ago with my Robbe Futura. Then I got a Dyna-X as it shares a lot of the same parts like tail and rotorhead etc. But I went too far and accumulated too many spares because eventually the Futura wasn't my 'main axe' anymore.

I've never owned an Eolo but the Futura and Milli are built to last, high quality parts that just don't wear out anytime soon. Soooooo, if you don't crash it you can prob keep it flying. If you can scan the old part you can have a new one printed these days, they can do 3D printing in all sorts of materials and the prices will go down as it gets more common.

The Eolo was built super light back in the days when electric power was pretty crude compared to today's standards so it should be good for scale mechanics I would think.

[helijohn]

To keep flying Robbes these days you have to just grab spares when they become available.
The Eolo was built super light back in the days when electric power was pretty crude compared to today's standards so it should be good for scale mechanics I would think.

Good advice thanks.

Unfortunately I don't think the Eolo is worth the investment. By that I mean I do not think it is worth collecting parts for it, I admit I'd rather fly my HK500GT which is cheap and easy to maintain.
I found Eolo to be more substantial than some of that era like say the Eco8 (allowing for size difference) and way more stable than many of the small helis but I have always found it to be a bit of a pig to work on which was why I dreaded burying it and so flew it with reluctance.

The battery was a fairly massive NiCad so going to LiPo relieved it of a lot of weight and the original brushed motor was a PITA.

I got it because I saw it as what I can only describe as a forerunner, there being seemingly little like it at the time. In fact I had a Walkera 22E around then (still have it as well) which I really liked.

[trillian]

Well you can clean it up, make it look as nice as possible and put it in a perspex case as an objet d' art

The Futura and Milli were worth gathering spares for because they fly so nicely and are great to work on.

[helijohn]

an objet d' art

Hardly, it's no oil painting.

[trillian]

Hardly, it's no oil painting.

Well, what passes for art these days.... don't get me started An Eolo in a perspex case vs Tracy Emin's 'unmade bed', that heli is friggin art! Better yet figure out how to encase it in amber like a fossil.

[helijohn]

Better yet figure out how to encase it in amber like a fossil.

I'll contact Fringe division.

I like it like I like all helis but not enough to put it in a glass case.

[trillian]

I like it like I like all helis but not enough to put it in a glass case.

Yes but that's what makes it into 'art'. Otherwise it's just an old heli .

Or you could do something like this with it; http://www.raffaeleiannello.com/en/i...al/upside-down

[dwazzer]

Yes but that's what makes it into 'art'. Otherwise it's just an old heli .

Or you could do something like this with it; Upside Down | Ceiling fan | Raffaele Iannello Creative Studio

That is AWESOME.....I SO want one of those

[helijohn]

Or you could do something like this with it; Upside Down | Ceiling fan | Raffaele Iannello Creative Studio

How cool is that!!!!!

[trillian]

How cool is that!!!!!

I just wonder what he told people at the design show "yeah my design studio hand built all of that" or "just a Heliarts fuse, cnc heli rotorhead, Trex mechanics, all off the shelf stuff". The only thing you'd have to work out to make one is a much slower motor (easy) running off mains power with a remote (all very easily done). I couldn't find a price anywhere.

[electricsceadu]

fly it
when you bin it and can't get the parts sell the remains on ebay for spares

80% of my fleet have spares issues due to poor support or no support in the uk