Got the pinion off the stock motor's main shaft. Pretty easy actually, no heat involved.
The pinion (with part of shaft still inside) broke off the motor somehow, with BARELY any force... so all I was left with was a pinion and a tiny bit of shaft sticking out. So, I (with the help of two adults
), put the pinion on a pair of vice grips with the grips so that the shaft could slide through the gap... kind of hard to explain...
So, I did that, then took a short piece of music wire and placed it on the main shaft and
lightly tapped the wire until the broken shaft pushed right out of the pinion
Then I had to remove the Spin motor out of the helicopter, so I could put the pinion on it. I put a small bit of blue loctite inside the pinion, then tapped it onto the shaft
softly until it was on... I put it back on the helicopter, the pinion was only half meshed with the gear....
So I took it back out of the heli, got a 2mm bullet connector and put it on the pinion and tapped the pinion further onto the motor shaft, the shaft is sticking past the bottom of the pinion. It meshes, barely, all the way.
So, I'm happy. Haven't really flown it yet, only spooled it up in my hand. My gosh, this thing sounds TOTALLY different! It doesn't even sound like a mCP X BL anymore, more like a
converted mCP X V1.L
I can tell, this thing has more power. The cogging on the motor is absolutely INSANE.
It's almost a REALLY good idea to use the autorotation main gear/shaft with this motor, the cogging is so great that the blades would stop instantly when you turned the motor off if there wasn't one...yes, the cogging is that intense!
So, I can tell you I will like this heli, although it was a trip to install since the motor wires are long because they come out the
bottom of the motor, not the top like stock. I was able to stick the wires behind the 3-in-1 but you're on your own with the wiring....
My BL is ready for its maiden tomorrow!