kingair
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Location: Utah - USA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | I did the mod on mine because I knew from experience what kind of an absolutely dramatic difference it makes when using metal tail grips on this size heli.
If you're skeptical as to how much your tail servo has to do just remove the main blades, disconnect the tail servo from the tail push rod, anchor the heli down in some way and spin it up. Try pushing and pulling the tail push rod and feel the very significant force required to move the thing. Now do the weight mod, much less force to no force depending on the amount of weight you use. IMO there should be some center tenancy.
No matter what servo you use or how good you think your servo is this mod will make a huge improvement in tail control from how well the gyro holds to consistency during traveling piros. The group of people that will benefit the most IMO are the people that are into traveling piro maneuvers such as piro funnels, piro loops etc. To those that think tail authority is great out of the box, you clearly haven't tried the mod. If all you're doing is hovering or easy forward flight, you probably don't need to bother with it.
Btw you don't need a kit, just a drill, bit, 2mm tap, 4 stainless steel linkage balls, and 4 screws short enough that they don't bind on the bolts that hold the grips to the hub.
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