rbort
Elite Veteran
Location: Franklin, MA - U.S.A.
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Well gee Zorba, let me explain it5 bifold doors fell full swing on top of the helicopter. It in turn flipped up in the air and back down. The impact on the head was so hard that the flybar tube got bent downwards and split. The main shaft was pushed down as there was up down play in it about 5mm. Besides head damage (flybar, flybar tube, head button, and possibly the head bent), the lower A frames got bent over so the helicopter now stands leaning to the side.
The clutch gap to the fan closed on one side, wide open on the other side. The crank gave way and bent. I can see that when I split the frames and pull the pull starter through, the fan wobbled all around. I pulled the fan out and pulled it through, and I can see with my naked eye the crank going back and forth not-true.
I hope that the clutch shaft survived. I didn't do anything with that and spinning the Jewel from the top it looks true to the eye.
You think I'm trying to rob my contractor? Comon Zorba, give me a little more credit than that! I had him come and look at the motor too so he could see the wobble before I sent it out to Hanson. This way if he was thinking like you're thinking as a contractor that I'm trying to take advantage of him, well he's seen it in his own eyes that it was bent.
I'd rather this whole careless mess never happened than for it to happen and me have to go through fix something I never should have had to do in the first place.
P.S. I uploaded the pictures that I took of the damage to my gallery for those interested to look. On the boom pictures its hard to see but there is a hairline crack running down the boom that you can get your fingernail in.
-=>Raja.
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