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How can these strange C links replace the hoops links? surely they would swing out and bind?
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I think the rocket links are screwed in very tight top and bottom (i.e. so they don't move) and therefore the half-hoops would stay in the right place.
I've got some alloy upgrade loops for a Raptor, but I have been put off fitting them by a comment a LHS made about having the load taken on 4 screw threads (where the links screw to the alloy loops) rather than a complete uninterupted loop like the stock plastic ones.
Doens't look any different to the push/pull loads on normal links, but forewarned could be forearmed.
Anyone had a bad experiences with these?
David
Happy Landings.
David
Winner of SEVEN of the BEST (Eddie Gold Stars)...humbled!
Raptor 50. OS50 Century Bell 47G in Yellow - Beautiful!
Mcpx
Blade 130x
Goblin 500
I just keep a stock of the original plastic hoops in my flightbox, I found that the alloy ones bent pretty badly in a crash plus I had a poor thread cut in one of them from the start. The plastic hoops are cheap and easy to replace, I'd have thought that the half hoops would be prone to stretching in use.
Steve H
http://www.himbletonRChelicopters.co.uk
Trex 600N, Trex 700N, now 3G!, Raptor E550 now in fetching Hughes 500E, Trex 250, Trex 500CF, Trex 550E 3G, Beam E4, Outrage 550, Logo 500 3D.
I never had an issue with mine on my Raptor, but they weren't identical to yours David.
I had the Best Bitz head assembly on mine - same idea on the hoops though, and it worked very well!
I'm not positive, but I think that Best Bitz stopped trading some time ago??
Shame that.
A couple of 600n's with stuff on them that makes them fly..
A 550 fbl with even more stuff on it to make it fly
And a Mars 470 which needs stuff putting on it to make it fly
I'm just using std plastic ones (or aftermarket plastic ones that are identical).
www.heli-extreme.co.uk a good club in south Sheffield 600n pro BeastX Align DFC head bls251, 3xbls451, align gov, 600d, 2in1 trex500, BeastX DS510 swash, Beast X cutr and carve head DS520 HK3026-1900, Align 425D blades, 5S4200 rev'trix, K&BDD dampers, AR6200 "450" superframeSTK, align DFC head v2tail, hk22281-8 on 3S 9650w9257gear commander 55A align 325D hitec digitals Tarot ZYX, AR6100e MCPX kbdd tail and blades, miniaviation bats
Dont spend more flying models than it costs to fly for real
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