42GPW
Heliman
Location: North Royalton, Ohio
My Posts This: Topic Forum | UpdateI ordered he Torque tube from Heli-World. Took a little over a week to arrive. Kind of slow, but what's the rush and shipping was free.
Quality appeared nice, it had an extra bit in it that wasn't in the one sheet instructons and didn't have the little screw that secures the cross pin on the tail gear pinion but the part could be used fromthe old shaft for the tail gear.
Hardest part on the installation was I had extreme dificulty getting the old main mech end shaft from the drive gear bearings. There was just no getting at it, so I partially split the frames and CAREFULLY flexed them apart to remove the bearings with the shaft still stuck in it. Once done, taped the shaft out with a drift punch. The new shaft slid in nicely. Reinstall the bearings, slide the shaft in, and as the new shaft from the torque tube end had slightly shorter dimentions than the original, installed the drive gear at the extreme end of the flat spot on the shaft. Same with the TT fitting on the other end as otherwise there was binding on the frames. Otherwise, may I suggest pulling the tube bearing out of the plastic housing and inserting the housing using only pressure from the opposite side from which the bearing is inserted so as not to nothch the plastic housing, making it more difficult to reinsert the bearing whle the housing is in the tube.
The whole process took about an hour or so, if you don't count the time I just stod there trying to think of an easy way to get the old shaft out without breaking anything and without taking the whole damn thing apart.
I have not flown it yet so spent the rest of the evening making the poor man's camera mount. |
