Apr 22, 2008, 05:13 PM
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United States, TX, Austin
Joined Dec 2006
13,740 Posts
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Very...VERY durable !!
Forgot the number one rule...NEVER take your eye off it !  Or...put another way, NEVER look down at the TX for trim adjustment  Had the M-24 head on...just left/right hover practice with occasional NOSE-IN  Looked down and realized my mistake...looked up and its was an inch away from a TRASH CAN ! WHACK-WHACK and over it flipped...landing upside down....motor instantly went high-whine...crap..T-HOLD ! DAMN....my great looking day-glo paint was all over the street....picked er up...flybar bent. Expected worse....nope  Even the main shaft was not bent ! Ohhh...the canopy rod was bent  I'm using antenna tube for that...works great ! Also...I had drilled 1/16th hole to fix slop and used a link rod from HBFP and a ball end (snipped off the loop) threaded onto the rod to hold it in place. Apparently...it's brittle steal and broke clean ! SAVED the head entirely !
10 mins to straighten flybar and I'm back in business (well...the canopy looks kinda beat up, but I can live with that  ) !!!
-Dave
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