Small Lama 4 upgrade

[ronp]

I just did some upgrades on my Lama V4 that I just recently purchased. The first pic is of the body upgrades and the second is all the metal upgrades. The last step will be installing two extreme SE180 motors which I hope to have done at the end of the month. When that's complete I'll post another picture or two.

[ranben]

Nice job there Ron. It dont even look anything like the original.

[ronp]

Thanks,Yeah that's for sure. It is a lot more durable also. The skids are nice and Strong and they bend and don't break. The original lama fuselage was so thin that one small crash cracked the thin shell. The tail boom is a lot stronger that the stock one also.
Now I just have to get the extreme motors and I'll be set.

[mimir]

Looks good Ron! Nice job.

[ronp]

Thanks ranben

[ronp]

Thank you also Mimro

[Solitaire]

Ron

What do think of the blade grips on that purple set? I got a silver set off eBay (really cheap in both senses of the word) and didn't like the grips. I kept the metal swash but put the original grips back on.

How are yours holding up?

[Raygun]

Hi Sol if I could break in here I purchased the same set as Ron everything was nice except for the shaft it was bent the blade grips where better than the Xtreme upgrade ones. Ray

[Solitaire]

Thanks Ray.
I guess the eBay set is definitely substandard. Oh well, for $10 shipped I'm not out much. The swash works very well, but took a lot of setting up and some longer links to get it to fly right.

[ronp]

Hey Sol Like Ray said for the money it's better than stock. I had the same issue regarding the length of the arms off the servo. Took awhile to get it to hover but once it was set it was set. On the original order the steering arm was machined in the wrong location. They sent me a replacement but as always from China it was time, but hey for the money it seems a bit stronger than the stock and it sure looks better. Ron