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Quick UK metal fin mount with integrated teflon bushing support for the carbon tail rotor pushrod.
My modified tail boom supports, a shot from the outside and below is a shot from the inside.
Pinning the Torque Tube:
Stock Tail Rotor Drive Shaft, the end is just glued inside the tube. Do you trust yours???
I drilled a hole in mine to bolt the end to the tube so it can't slip.
This is a composite of a canopy I am having painted by Joe at Canopy FX. It should be here next week, just in time for the Hirobo Cup next weekend. I can't wait to see it. I did the design and sent it to Joe for an estimate, he offered a fair price and I let him go for it. I'll post the pics as soon as I get them.
Just in time for the Hirobo Cup which begins tomorrow, I received my new canopy from Joe at Canopy FX. The picture shown above is the acutal painted canopy. The color isn't reall accurate as I shot it indoors with my digital camera. The colors are much more saturated than the photo depicts. It looks washed out compared to the real thing. The only thing he missed was the top was supposed to fade into yellow right before it meets the center checkers. It's cool anyway, and it looks really nice in person. I hope to keep this canopy for a while, you know what I mean...
I had a problem with my stock collective arm. I purchsed this particular heli used. It was assembled without the retaining nuts on the pitch arm cross member. The frames are machined in a "D" to hold the crossmember and prevent it from rotating inside the frames. Not realizing I had a problem developing it got worse until one day it felt twitchy on the collective. You could move the swashplate up and down about 2 or 3 degrees of pitch... I tore it down and installed a new pitch arm and added the nuts to hold it in place and replaced the top frame set with a set of TT Carbon frames. I also chose to replace the stock collective arm with the TT carbon arm. It looks great and is lighter and much stronger than the stock one.
I could have "lived" with the stock arm but wanted to get a better system and this unit fits the bill. Unfortunately, TT doesn't' give you any instructions to assemble it so you have to figure out how to assmeble the thing, it has a bunch of washers, spacers and other doodads . Locktite it all togehter and installed it and I am pleased with the performance. I flew it today and the heli's collective system is much tighter now and inverted performance is even better. Before my inverted performance wasn't very good. I was losing my negative pitch due to the slop and wear in the collective system, it seemed to effect negative pitch more than positive pitch. Anyrate, I was able to fix a few other things while I had the heli tore down.
In the photo above you can see the new 90 clutch bell on the left and the stock 60 sized bell to the right. It's about 50% larger. The clutches in the foreground are the opposite, the stock 60 clutch is on the left and the new 90 clutch is on the right. Notice the new design of the 90 clutch. It is hollow with a thick ridge around the outside. I suppose this aids cooling . I had to purchase the clutch. bell and liner. I used JB Weld to glue the liner in place. I flew it today for the first time and it works great. The clutch engages much sooner than my old one did so I know the clutch clearance must be OK. I also put a governor on it too, I robbed the original governor to put on the Fury.