Looking for 450 tail riser or flex shaft

[Gravythe clown]

In building my 450 Apache, I’ve run into a stopping point. I’m looking for some way to drive my tail besides a separate motor. I was trying to build my own tail riser and got stuck on making the plates I need to join the two torque tubes.
if I could buy just the tail riser from the UH-1 Motion sells, I’d make that work. But unfortunately that part is not for sale.
I'm also looking at The universal contour drive, but holy smokes at $150.

so if anyone has any alternatives or ideas or 450 tail risers available, I would love and appreciate to hear.

thanks
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[lt1pwr]

Maybe you can make this one work?

https://www.motionrc.com/products/ro...-elevated-tail

[Gravythe clown]

I bought that one already. Way to big for 450 and this Apache body

thank you though.

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[F106DeltaDart]

Unfortunately, the only ones out there for 450s are the belt drives from 450 UH-1. For torque tube, you would have to custom build a gearbox out of 2 450 tail cases.

[Gravythe clown]

That was my original plan but was proving to be not difficult to get the precision needed with my tools and tool sets.

I would have no problem converting to belt drive, but can’t even find a tail riser for belt setup. The Huey that MotionRC sells would work, but they don’t just sell the parts.

I found a flex shaft that I’m going to try. Turns out RC bouts use flex shafts. So I got a 1/4” flex shaft ordered and the other bits and pieces. I’ll do other updates in my Apache 450 thread

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