800 Roban OH-6 Cayouse build

[DCORSAIR]

by far the best scale heli I have ever flown, talking about my Magnum PI now, flies so smooth and easy, very easy to work on as well, you can have the mechanics out in about 10-15 minutes, telling you, these 800 size Hughes 500 are huge and easy to see but hard to transport, your back will get tired carrying one to far.

[PawPaw]

Oh, my back’s plenty strong from toting an empty wallet so long.

[DCORSAIR]

Well look what came in the mail today, Callie graphics........

[PawPaw]

Looks great!

[F106DeltaDart]

Nice work, its really looking good!

[DCORSAIR]

Thanks guys, now is all I need are servos, not sure if I will go with the KST HV servos like in my Magnum PI version or not, great servos and plenty of torque but I think I can go with some cheaper ones on this one, or should I just bite the bullet and go for it and get the high dollar ones...

[PawPaw]

Spend it. More will come.

[DCORSAIR]

Spend it. More will come.

Okay, you talked me into it, high dollar servos it is......

[DCORSAIR]

Oh boy, look what I installed today.

[PawPaw]

Go big or go home...that’s what I say.

[DCORSAIR]

Woohoo, these bad boys showed up today.

[Gravythe clown]

Oh boy, fun times are in the works.

Gravy

[PawPaw]

I would’ve bought some of those myself but too afraid I’d scratch ‘em. :stuck_out_tongue_wi

[DCORSAIR]

I would’ve bought some of those myself but too afraid I’d scratch ‘em. :stuck_out_tongue_wi

They are puuurrrttty that's for sure, and the bad thing is, you can't see them at all, oh well they work awesome, but they better for the price they are.

[DCORSAIR]

All finished and ready for some hovering and tracking, only thing I need to finish up is the lights, that's the easy part.

[PawPaw]

Very nice!

[Gravythe clown]

Can’t wait to see it fly.

Gravy

[DCORSAIR]

Update, had a little setback on the Cayuse but was fortunate with hardly any damage, tail blades and drive shaft is all. I decided to take the tail rotor unit apart and inspect the tightness of the parts, don't know if some of you know this, these Roban tail rotor blade holders are set up for trailing edge control, I take them apart and spin the dogbone shaft around to make them leading edge control, that changes your left/right control so you must change your tail rotor input in the radio and direction on the gyro, I forgot to do this and my Cayuse spun on me and hit the tail rotor blades, the sudden stop snapped the drive shaft at one tip where it's threaded and took out the blades, so I barrowed the parts from my Magnum PI version and here is the first test hover after repairs, sorry it's short but it was really windy and I didn't want to take a chance and wipe out another set of tail blades.

https://youtu.be/NP0fpNUGNfY

[DCORSAIR]

Here it is after the test hover sitting on my heli pad.

[F106DeltaDart]

Here it is after the test hover sitting on my heli pad.

Congrats on the maiden hover! Looking good!