tail rotor

anyone got any suggestion on how to keep the
pinion gear on the tail motor i've glued it many times and it might stay on 1-5 mins. then it comes of(copter does a nice pirroette) when it comes off.was thinking of
drilling thru the gear and motor shaft and putting a pin thru it but its so small i believe it would be very hard to do any suggestions? also i heard there was a mod for a antirotation link made out of a hinge
anybody got a picture the stock one pops off as much as my tail rotor pinion gear.

thanks
roy

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Use thick CA I fly now for several month whit a brass pignion glued on and i holds just fine.

Remove rest of glue whit aceton.

Eddy

Roy,

Don't forget after you get all the CA off, to "roughen up your shaft " so to speak with a small file, etc.

I found that just glueing didn't work, had to have that extra "cling" to hang on to....

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- NewHeliNut NBN121500

Roy,

For the anti-rotation mod check
www.fivestarwebsite.com/piccoflyer

There are 3 pictures of it about 1/3 down on the page.

JR

[This message has been edited by futurism (edited 05-10-2001).]

AS newhelinut said, roughen the shaft with fine sandpaper, clean it with a little bit of meths/thinners etc and then use thick cyno or epoxy, if you lubricate the motor a lot it is more likely that the pinion will come off.



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GB-RDA

Rob Andrew

i'll try regluing it again i did roughen it
up the first time but i'll give it another shot.i seen the antirotation mod but where
can i get one did see any price or where to get one from.

Chris Rigoleth's AR-link mod is awesome.
Look at http://communities.msn.ch/Rigoleth&naventryid=145
-Nicolas

I have good luck with Red Thread locker with both brass and plastic pinions

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OL'BOB

[pgoelz]

You might also want to try soaking the pinion in acetone to remove the old CA. What seems to happen is that the hole gets plugged and the next time you try to CA the pinion on, the CA does not actually run into the hole and you don't get a very good bond.



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Paul Goelz
pgoelz (at) eaglequest (dot) com
Piccolo web page: http://www.eaglequest.com/~pgoelz/piccolo1.html

How long do you soak the plastic parts for without having them melt?