November 23, 2011

  • Wednesday 23rd November 2011

    Wednesday Evening: Today was cold, wet and windy, it has been raining pretty much non stop for the last 72 hours, so everything is gross and soggy, the garage is flooded and the ground is too wet to walk on....

    I went to town yesterday to see if there was any more post, my ball pliers had arrived and I managed to get the hex drive I needed to make a proper start on the helicopter, I had assembled it to make sure it was all there and I knew where it all went, but then you have to strip it all apart and rebuild it with loctite.

    I have been doing the loctiting on the HK450 Pro today, as it turns out much of it has already been done, the only the bits you really need to undo were the only bits not locked, now it's done I feel better about progressing....

    The next mission is to install all the sevo's. Here we come unstuck again though, because the tail servo and gyro are still in the post.... I can put the other three in though, then at least I can assemble the gears/motor and head and probably set up the pitch and stuff, then I have to solder all the plugs on, but when the tail servo and the gyro arrive I hope to be ready to complete it....

    It's nice not rushing it though, just taking it really easy, step by step, watching the tutorials on you tube, slowly I'm getting an understanding of it. I saw one today about how to put the pro frame into the Hughes body that I ordered, wow I didn't realise how big that is, it does look very nice though and it looked really good flying in the video .

    It is very simple to convert, so if it ever does leave HK I think I will use the Pro in the Hughes body and fly the less technical 450 V2 (which having seen the video would be much harder to assemble into this body) and use that for the general flying...

    The "avionics" set up will be very similar.... I found my old Pheonix 45 speed controller inside an uncompleted model hanging up in the other garrage too, I was wondering where that had got to! They still cost an arm and a leg and have a great reputaion, so I hope this one will be well up for the job!