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e-BEAM Beam E4 > Stock Canopy Mount
 
 
scoyle
Senior Heliman
Location: IL

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Any good ideas for securing the front of the canopy? I think the idea was to apply the foam to the canopy, but others have applied the foam to the frame. No matter where I place the foam strip, the canopy still has considerable up and down play in the front. What have others done to make it more secure in the front?

BTW, I'm referring to the stock canopy the E4 comes with.

Thanks!
Scott
01-08-2008 Over year old.
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Furyous
Senior Heliman
Location: Detroit, Michigan

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		The foam goes underneath the botton blate in front of the front landing gear strut. I trim it down to width and about 1/2 inch long. This eliminates all the canopy play.

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frebou
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Location: Montreal / Canada

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I did the same thing, put a smaller part of the tape under the front plate and canopy is pretty tight on it... did you drilled the canopy hole tight enough?
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scoyle
Senior Heliman
Location: IL

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		The foam strip is in place, still some slop. Maybe I need to try two layers.

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did you drilled the canopy hole tight enough?

I'm not sure what you mean by drilled the canopy hole. I didn't have to drill any holes in the canopy. Maybe I'm missing something altogether.

Thanks!
Scott
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frebou
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Location: Montreal / Canada

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Sorry, the hole in my FG canopy were not drilled when I bought mine...
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psawya
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Location: APO, AP Pyongtaek, Korea

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I took a servo arm and installed in under the front lower frame cross member screw on each side of the frame. See pictures, they tell it all.



This holds the canopy tight without any foam tape.

Pete
01-19-2008 Over year old.
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frebou
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Location: Montreal / Canada

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Very nice and simple idea! I like it.

Tell us if it makes the canopy crack after 20 flight though
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scoyle
Senior Heliman
Location: IL

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		That is a very good idea!! I certainly have plenty of extra servo arms laying around. It also appears to lift the nose of the canopy up where I would like it.

Thanks very much!
Scott
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psawya
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Location: APO, AP Pyongtaek, Korea

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		After about 9 months there have been no cracks form from this method.
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psawya
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Location: APO, AP Pyongtaek, Korea

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Forgot to mention, use a slightly longer screw I think I used an m2x8

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frebou
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Location: Montreal / Canada

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Cool, nice to know there as been no problem.

This solution seem very adaptative to different canopy you could use. I use a different canopy depending on the lightning condition and 1 is an Align, the other is the original Beam one.
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psawya
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Location: APO, AP Pyongtaek, Korea

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Another RR member is the one that first applied this method, I learned it from him, UH-60PILOT
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red_z06
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Location: Dumont, NJ

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Stock mounting hole on the new canopies will make the nose of the canopy droop and bob up and down. Putting a new grommet hole 10cm to the front and 10cm up will tighten the bottom of the canopy to rest against the front strut and make it tight. At the same time the whole canopy will be tilted up a little to look better.

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frebou
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Location: Montreal / Canada

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Any pictures of the "before" and after redz?

Since you talk about "Stock mounting hole", it means you end up with 4 holes in it... right?
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red_z06
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Location: Dumont, NJ

My Posts This: Topic  Forum


The pictuure show after/before of the new mounting hole. The new holes take care of the bobbing canopy and corrects for better posture.
Translucent burgendy was the stock plastic canopy and the painted one is a new one just received. I do not know if all new canopies will come this way.

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Foamy Love
Senior Heliman
Location: Shelby Township, MI

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Thanks for the pics.

I hope that all of the new canopies look like the new one .
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red_z06
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Location: Dumont, NJ

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		That painted canopy looked much better when it came in the mail. After losing the one-way bearing on first fligth (after repair) and losing a grip ball on the second, it looks like that.

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frebou
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Location: Montreal / Canada

My Posts This: Topic  Forum
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That painted canopy looked much better when it came in the mail.

Yeah... even the "before" canopy looks like an "after" to me

Thanks a lot for the pictures! really appreciated.

By the way, where did you buy this canopy (the crashed one) and what part number did you order? I'm looking for one but no web site have the picture appart advantage hobby but it's not the right one...
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red_z06
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Location: Dumont, NJ

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		The painted one seems to have better canopy positioning than the translucent one as the nose on that one seems lifted a tad too much.

The canopy came with the Beam kit we received from Korea. I'll ask Beam if the painted canopy will be available as an option the next time I contact them. If it will be an option or stock, I'm sure Advantage will get them in.

The only problem I see with the painted one is that the adhesion is not as good as FG painted canopies and will peel off on minor impact.

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frebou
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Location: Montreal / Canada

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Thanks, keep us updated if you get the info
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