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RCHeliJim
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Location: Orem, UT USA

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Thanks, we will try that this weekend - Jim



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BrentC
Senior Heliman
Location: Utah, USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Jim,
That is one nice Heli! I wish I could have been there to see it fly Looking forward to seeing it up close.
BrentC

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05-13-2008 Over year old.
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gadgetdude
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Location: Southern California

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Thought some of you guys would like to know I did a version of this color scheme and the blue one for RealFlight. Just go to the knifedge.com swap pages and you will see it.

05-15-2008 Over year old.
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RCHeliJim
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Location: Orem, UT USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		All the parts arrived yesterday, have the airframe back together and will test hover a bit today and tomorrow, if all goes well - I will put it back in the fuse this weekend

I put on a new fan, clutch, and hub, all balanced and dialed. Rebalanced the blades, tail assembly, and main blades. I also replaced the main shaft and motor just to cover everything, hehe. Anyway - I honestly think it may have been the pinion after all that, it had a small wobble I had not noticed before. I tried a different pinion gear from a friend's evo and it runs quite a bit "truer" in the same clutch bell than the one I had in it. Anyway, I will test with the huge horizontal fin on the heli so I can watch it for vibes



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ste1981
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Location: Voghera - Italy

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I love this job Jim!
Very nice, I hope to see some pics in flight. Are you going to post them?

Stefano
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RCHeliJim
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Location: Orem, UT USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Well, all is done, vibes are gone. Lowered the headspeed to 1550 and things smoothed out wonderfully! Did a handful of flights last Saturday and everything worked great. Very fun bird to fly, love flipping the retracts, etc. Thanks for all the help, I hope this thread can be of use to another person building this bird. As you can tell in the last pic, I am very happy with this project and look forward to many, many flights with it.





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GrantL
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Location: Springfield, MA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Outstanding... You should be very proud...

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gadgetdude
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Location: Southern California

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! Looks great with the retracts up.

When you got rid of your vibe, you must have sent it my way I took mine out this weekend and could not even get it up higher than a few feet without a large vibration problem. After checking a few obvious things (head, main shaft, flybar, paddles) a fellow club member suggested it might me the torque tube. Said if the bearing is center, it will introduce vibration. So I am going to disassemble tonight and see what I can find
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RCHeliJim
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Location: Orem, UT USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Mine ended up just being the headspeed after all that work... once I bumped the throttle curve down a bit, things really smoothed out and the lower headspeed adds to the scale flying a bit too. Whats your headspeed at?



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gadgetdude
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Location: Southern California

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		LOL
Not a clue. I estimate around 1800. I am running it a NEU 1512 1.5 Motor with Revco 10t Pinion and 6S 5000mah Battery. I am flying mainly at around 70% throttle.

The thing is I have flown it about 2 times with no problems. I made some adjustments to the flybar paddle (lengthened them). But that is the only thing I have done in the time between it flying smooth to it picking up the vibe. I really feel it is the torque tube.
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RCHeliJim
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Location: Orem, UT USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Hopefully that gets it sorted for ya.



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jjeaster222000
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Location: Bedford in

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		awsome thread thanks for sharing i just got in to scale my self.. i love the 222 modle but i went with a MD500. i would love to have a bell 222..



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doorman
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Location: E.Berne, NY

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		It's The Grin!!!!!

Jim, NICE JOB and that Grin says it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad you got it worked out.....
jjeaster222000 great looking scale pilot along with a very nice 500!!!!

gadgetdude.... different temps or anything like that which could let the head speed increase or even decrease a little.... seems that all scale heli's have a "happy" spot and anything above or below that, even 50rpm, can cause the shakes to show up....strange since you had the smooth flights already... so I would also bet on the tube!!!!

These things are great when they work and are great to watch fly... enjoy them all.....

Stan

A couple of "table" shots of the latest one to be finished up... this is a Pegasus nitro conversion to electric, hence E-Peg!!!!! With the easy scale fuselage....8 to 10 hours from box to the test flights now that I have 3 under my belt this season!!!!



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RCHeliJim
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Location: Orem, UT USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Just a little update. I added 12 ounces of lead to the nose this week to get the CG right, I have been using trim up to this point so it will feel much better now with proper CG. I couldnt believe it needed 12 ounces, but it did. Now it will fly VERY scale like with all the extra weight

I also painted the windshield black so you can no longer see the mechanics through the front window

Looking forward to another weekend of flying this baby around



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tengteng
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Location: Philippines

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		rchelijim: Awsome heli! I'm building the same exact heli and wanted to find out what exact muffler did you end up using. Thank you.
08-20-2008 Over year old.
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RCHeliJim
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Location: Orem, UT USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I ended up using the mavrikk 50 sized muffler. Fit just right in the fuse



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tengteng
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Location: Philippines

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Thank you for the quick reply. I saw one at heliproz, is that the same one? Mavrikk 1019HV (high volume) for os50.
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tengteng
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Location: Philippines

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I ordered a 50 size bell222 from century heli. What i received is a totally different color scheme from the pictures in their website. Also to my surprise it included the retractable gears.

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matt155
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Location: Pembroke Pines, Florida-USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I have been tinkering with the retracts on my airwolf trying to get them right. One thing I noticed is that the gear wire just gets placed into the retract mechanism with nothing to secure it. It is possible to push it in to far so that the coiled part hits the actual retract mechanism and does not allow it to retract fully. I have been thinking about placing some CA glue on them to secure them but I think anything less than a gentle landing will still push them in too far. Did you have the same problem?
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Copter Doctor
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Location: daleville/ft.rucker, al- home of army aviation

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		matt, the retracts struts are secured to the units by tightening a set screw located in the side of the unit itself. this has to be done before the unit is installed in the fuse. the setscrew is in one end of the aluminum pivot thingy in the unit.

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