mongenix
Heliman
Location: Loveland, Ohio USA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | In all fairness, I did enjoy an inverted pile driver into the hard dirt. The heli faired very well but.......
Several flights after my rebuild, the seesaw mixing arm came off of the bearings during flight and well we all know what happened then . Lucky that I was landing and was only a few feet off the ground.
I found that the small rib of metal that separates the two bearings and keeps the arm from sliding off the outside bearing had sheared off. After further inspection, one of the washout arms was sloppy on the bearings. It would move in and out on the bearings. I found that the washout arm had sheared off about half of the rib and it was just hanging in the washout arm. If I had not inspected this arm, it would have failed within a flight or two. Take a look at yours! Are they sloppy?
I take full reponsibility for not completely inspecting my heli after my crash but has anyone else experienced this type of failure?
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