How To Disassemble

I've been run off my feet with other things in the run up to Christmas, so not much heli flying time... though i still managed to squeeze some in: where there's a will, there's a way ;-)

Ok so my outstanding adjustments, each of which requires stripping the heli down:

• Tilt swashplates slightly forward to give a nose-high stance (in tandem with my earlier mixer adjustments).


• Increase the throw on the fore/aft controls


• Eliminate the need for very slight right-roll trim of the heli by levelling the swashplates port / starboard


• Install a power switch to ease turning on of the model

The steps i went through to strip the heli down were:

1. Remove rotor blades: these are simple, there's just the one screw & nut combo per blade. Obvious stuff.


2. Remove rear wheels: With a little tugging, these just pull straight out. If you're a bit ham fisted i'm fairly sure you could damage the lexan here, so be careful to pull straight out.


3. Remove the carbon-fibre bars between the front wheel post and the lexan sides: these just slide out, and it's not one long bar, it's two shorter bars, one each side of the front wheel post.


4. Pop the lexan shell with rubber grommits off the metal bars just below the swashplates. I found this tricky. The goal is to have the metal bars inside the lexan, so by squeezing your fingers inside the lexan from the top of the model, you can gently prise the rubber grommits off the steel bars one side at a time.


5. Manipulate the lexan up over the top of the model

Tada! at this point you have the lexan shell off, and one strange looking metal / plastic frame thing. All this is probably obvious to any seasoned rc heli flyer, but to me the beginner, it was all very much trial and error.