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Post by akphill on Mar 11, 2011 21:32:57 GMT -6
thought I would share a pic of the Raptor 50 hovering while engine breakin  |
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Post by Doozer on Mar 11, 2011 22:21:24 GMT -6
Nice! Looking good. It looks cold outside. Is that snow I see? The canopy looks like it came out nice as well. I just bought a new OS 50 Hyper today. I'll be breaking it in soon. I bought Ernie's Frenzys. It's going to go in one of them. I have to tune the engine I bought from Ernie this weekend. It went from cold and wet to hot and dry. We're expecting temps close to 90 this weekend :/ (the heat starts  ) |
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Post by akphill on Mar 11, 2011 22:42:10 GMT -6
LOL yes Doozer that is snow in the background Its ranging from -9 to 35 above now
Sorry to hear you had such bad luck with that other engine that sucks big time
So now you will have two nitro helis your almost up with me
When you break in the new 50 do it by the book cause if you dont you can take longevity off the life of the engine good luck
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Post by Doozer on Mar 11, 2011 23:28:08 GMT -6
Yeah, that toki 40 is actually a pretty good engine as far a .30 size engines go. I just lost a gamble. I just wont buy another used engine from someone I don't know. Luckily, there's good people like Ernie. Actually, I'm going to get the Hirobo in the air next. I've already bought the 50 conversion kit, but I pulled the electronics for one of the Frenzys. I already have most of the electronics for it. I'm only down a cyclic and tail servo which I ordered today. If it doesn't fly well, I'll rebuild the other frenzy Ernie sent me instead of using it for parts.
I'm going to shelf most of my Electrics... 450 and below. I was thinking about still flying my G5, but... I'm just not into the smaller electrics anymore. I mean, that might change, but for right now I'm finding liquid fueled to be a lot of fun.
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Post by akphill on Mar 12, 2011 0:07:17 GMT -6
The raptor is so fast on cyclic and tail that I need some practice with the 450s to keep up with it and it does help.
Sitting here on the bench if you snap your radio levers to one side and let go you can watch the cyclic follow the bounce of the sticks there that fast so I keep flying the 450s to help with the thumb agility LOL
(must be my old thumbs)
glad your going to get something flying soon
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Post by Gabe on Mar 12, 2011 6:32:35 GMT -6
Good lookin bird! I'm so envious.
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Post by r/c basher on Mar 12, 2011 12:42:00 GMT -6
Thats a nice looking raptor. Speaking of raptors, I walked into my lhs a while ago and they had for sale a used raptor 30 RTF, it came with a Futaba 6ex 2.4ghz radio, Futaba 401 gyro, o.s. engine, Futaba servos for $400. It seemed like a decent deal considering the radio costs $200 and the gyro costs $150 alone.
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Post by Doozer on Mar 12, 2011 13:26:24 GMT -6
That's a nice deal basher. If you have the cash I'd hop on it.
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Post by The Dude on Mar 12, 2011 20:14:19 GMT -6
Nice Rappy akphill, I have a .30 and love it.
I wouldn't pass that up basher, that's a pretty good deal.
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Post by akphill on Mar 13, 2011 9:28:55 GMT -6
RC thats a really good price on the raptor 30 size raptors ready to go from factory are around$650.00
Thanks Dude I saw the video on your transition to ff really cool stuff
did you get your pipe tight so it don't come loose again
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Post by r/c basher on Mar 13, 2011 10:02:49 GMT -6
Yeah I thought it was a nice deal too, but when I say a while ago I meant like 8 months ago, the same day I bought my Dx6i. Its probably long gone by now. I thought about it at the time, but to me nitro helis are to much maintence after having nitro cars.
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Post by The Dude on Mar 13, 2011 21:19:48 GMT -6
RC thats a really good price on the raptor 30 size raptors ready to go from factory are around$650.00 Thanks Dude I saw the video on your transition to ff really cool stuff did you get your pipe tight so it don't come loose again I replaced the pipe with a 1 piece one, works awesome, now I am sorting out a fuel issue, still flies awesome, just a little more tuning. |
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Post by trouble on Mar 30, 2011 17:38:12 GMT -6
Beautiful heli AK!!
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