HOLY feck!

Thats was totally insane. It’s a large mosquito! Shame about the poor flight video. You can see the frame rate is too slow and couldn’t keep up with the speed of the helis movement.

Originally Posted by Atomic Skull

Helidirect has 430mm Stealth blades for $15

Have you used them before? I saw it too and posted the link however the reviews on helidirect are mixed..

Originally Posted by mhills51

No it was a regular 500. Someone asked him on the forum. Helifreak. Here is the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=orHiutfmUTQ

I am amazed these helis hold together. I'd like to see a high speed wide angle camera on the tail pointed at the the head during a flight like this.

Originally Posted by ridge_racer

Have you used them before? I saw it too and posted the link however the reviews on helidirect are mixed..

I bought a pair of them..have them on my 500e. .....balance was close enough, no blemishes. So for only $15 I give em a thumbs up.

Originally Posted by Dejavu*Xion

I bought a pair of them..have them on my 500e. .....balance was close enough, no blemishes. So for only $15 I give em a thumbs up.

I was looking at them at first until mhills posted the link for the Align blemished blades for 19 bucks shipped..

I got my beast DNA pack all soldered up and charged for tomorrow. It's going to be 50 degrees. This will be the highest C rated pack I have used in the pro.

Originally Posted by mhills51

I got my beast DNA pack all soldered up and charged for tomorrow. It's going to be 50 degrees. This will be the highest C rated pack I have used in the pro.

Hopefully more positive reviews like BF.. Mine are still on the slow swisspost boat..

Originally Posted by mhills51

I got my beast DNA pack all soldered up and charged for tomorrow. It's going to be 50 degrees. This will be the highest C rated pack I have used in the pro.

Hope you can get to fly them side by side with other packs for comparative purposes.

Well I didn't do a side by side, but I could tell it had a lot more punch and when going inverted I didn't have to put a lot of negative in. I also had my timer set that would of left me with 30% and this pack read 48%

So going thru E-bay..In an auction I won an Align 600mx motor and second winning bid was an align servo..This going thru company rc_rocks_us..Meanwhile 10 days later no tracking number and items still not here. I send them an email asking for an explanation.. Come to find out they auction off product they dont even have.
Here is a first response from Rc_rocks_us.. " About your order, unfortunately your servo and motor are both out of stock. New ones will arrive and be shipped tomorrow. As your order shipped, a tracking number will be sent to you via a notification email.Our fault not to notify you sooner about this situation. If you cannot wait that long, please let us know. We will refund you immediately.Once again, we apologize and thank you for your purchase.Van....

LoL and Wow...Again these were auction Items...Would be like me auctioning off a car i dont actually have.


Buyer Beware of rc_rocks_us Via E-bay.


And here is their second response to an E-mail .." We had it at the time of auction, but were out of stock shortly after". Again, your order is ready to ship tomorrow. Do you still want to proceed it? or cancel the order and refund you?Thank you, Daisy.

And my last responce...By all means ship my order a.s.a.p.....I just cant get over that you actually sold off my product elsewhere that was "eartaged" for the winner of an auction.....Would be like me auctioning off a car i dont have or selling off a car i dont have.


Well thats Thursdays amusement anyways....CrAZY biz. ethics nowdays..I seriously cant imagine doing this with my customers..it just blows me away..lol

I think they're taking the concept of "just in time" ordering ad absurdium. There seem to be a lot of eBay sellers that do that, normally indicated by very protracted expected delivery dates. Hope you do get your stuff, and leave appropriate feedback after you get it!

Originally Posted by 2Doggs

I think they're taking the concept of "just in time" ordering ad absurdium. There seem to be a lot of eBay sellers that do that, normally indicated by very protracted expected delivery dates. Hope you do get your stuff, and leave appropriate feedback after you get it!

Yeah...I really hate to leave neg...In 5 years i have only had to do it one time..This will be my second. Now if i were them I would offer up a token gift in order to avoid the neg. But thats just me. They did not. So its on !!

My Align 550 v2 kit just came in.. ( yes, you know me. its a FB ) Next build if and when will be fbl.
As posted above my electronics were to be here as well by now. But such is life. ...No need to time me on this build. I'm just not feeling the heli mojo today..I figure i should be done with this one in about a week. keep in mind this is the heli taking place of my Align 600e Pig that i trashed on x-mas day.
Rather then spend $300 to fix the old school 600 on 6s. I took the money and went with this align 550 v2 and transferring over the electronics. The 600mx motor will be an upgrade from what i had in the 600e.
Which by the way . I cant even give that 600xl motor away..I have it listed on ebay for a lousy $35 including 3 free pinions and it still wont move..lol

Had a failure on the 500 yesterday!!! YAY!

Currently I’m still trying to dial in the mems gyro. In a pitch pump the tail holds but in fast forward flight I get some tail wag (can hear it only). If I drop the gain 1 or 2 points I get tail kicks on pitch pumps.

So decided to charge up 4 lipos and get out there to concentrate on fixing the gain issue. Spooled up on the first lipo, step up to ID1. Had it on a hover for 30sec... then you hear the tail wag noise, then BANG! Heli is spinning and tail bobbing violently. Manage to kill power and auto down breaking another full set of HK landing gear.

Went to look at what happen and found 1 tail grip assembly was missing due to the Hex Head bolt breaking off. Silly me was too slack to rebuild the tail section last week and was planning to do it that night. My tail rebuild was over due by 10 flights.

Anyways the damage was:
Landing gears (pipes are all good)
Tail shaft (bent from unbalanced tail assembly)
Tail rotor hub (screw thread stuck inside)
Missing Tail rotor grip with bearings
Missing Tail blade.
Bent bracket hold the tail control arm

I have a feeling that the reason why the bolt broke was due to excessive side play in the tail grip. Not due to screw backing out, but more wear inside the HK tail grip.

Would be a good chance to buy the Align tail assembly now.

Originally Posted by evltoy

Manage to kill power and auto down breaking another full set of HK landing gear.

Gorilla gear wouldn't have broken and probably would have spared you some damage. They cost more but in the long run they will save you money.

I have a feeling that the reason why the bolt broke was due to excessive side play in the tail grip. Not due to screw backing out, but more wear inside the HK tail grip.

The original Align ESP design grips have just as much sideways play as the HK and Tarot ones. I never had any problems with the Tarot ones but I was using grade metric grade 12-9 alloy steel screws because I didn't trust the Tarot ones.The collar screws and other specialty screws on the Tarot kits are fine (probably because they are custom manufactured screws) but the generic screws look like they are just buying them in bulk from whoever is selling at the lowest price. In any case it cost me less than 10 bucks to replace them all with plenty of spares left over so it wasn't a problem.

What HS are you running btw, if you are running at over 2600rpm then you are overdriving the tail and that could be part of the cause for it letting go like that.

Originally Posted by evltoy

Would be a good chance to buy the Align tail assembly now.

If you go this route get the Pro type grips with two radial bearings. The original ESP grips have been discontinued and Align no longer sells the hubs. Tarot still makes the old style hub but one costs almost as much as two of the new Pro hubs from Align.

The Spectrrum A5040's are going into my backup heli, I do not believe that they are as good as the 28013MG's They get warm quickly and have a much larger deadband. Also out of the three I bought 2 were defective, one which I sent back and one which was missing the bottom ball bearing (the output gear was resting directly on the plastic). Great that the only way to find out about that defect is to open the servo which absolves them of having to fix it, nice one there Spectrum.

Not buying Spectrum products again, "quality" my ass.