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Roban AH-1W Cobra 700 Size Scale Helicopter
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So I'm finally putting the finishing touches on my first ever home DIY project lol... which was to convert my garage storage space into my hobby room. The way my house was built, they built a L shaped storage space in back corner of my garage on the elevated portion of my slab. It was basically 100 square feet on the other side of the wall of my laundry room. So why not make that part of the house right!? So for about $800 (materials and buddy labor) I've added a hobby room and about 11-12K in property value (I ran air/heat in there so it's part of my living square footage now!). Some before and during pics:
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FYSA for you guys, if you need a cobra complete tail gearbox assembly, the Roban 600 size UH1N is an exact match.... (you guys might have known that already, but I didn't). I spent more money chasing down the two inside gears, when I could have just ordered the whole damn gear box... and the gearbox is what I actually wanted to do in the first place!
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Did some maintenance on the cobra this past weekend, put the new tail gearbox in, some bearings, new motor pulley (the cap lip had came off), some tweeks etc, and managed to sneak a test flight in before work this week... bout the best weather we are going to have for about the next 7 days (this weekend's forecast is terrible lol). I'm feeling pretty good about it at this point, tail seems to be pretty solid now, and can at least say some learning is taking place!! I really want to finish this thing up... get my lights on it, some minor details and get this bird in the air for real... gunning for mid March!
Maintenance test flight after gearbox replacement, bearing replacement etc.
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Welp,
This is the first set of mechanics I've built in about 10 years. I just spent an hour trying to find the 'missing' parts of the swash linkage that are spelled out in the instructions. Then I took a look at your pics and guess what? LOL. Is there an updated instruction manual for this things? This one is dated 2013.
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