everything is going along fine, then.......

wibhi2

Member since
March 2003
From: Brooklyn

everything is going along fine, then.......

Posted by wibhi2 on Friday, October 3, 2003 6:50 PM

snap goes the the rotor shaft as you are trying to push it into the transmission. As you stare at in horror the tranny starts to disassemble itself before your eyes.

you scream. you scream again as hours of work and fussing seemingly goes down the tubes.

One begins to contemplate thier own mortality as well as the mortality of the kit that's just short of ending up in the circular file.

Hence, when the going gets tough, the tough take a nap. Does a soul wonder and provided the solution to resurrecting rotor/transmission assembly.

tho in all honesty, taking my 3 lb slege hammer to the rest of the kit would have been more fun, less productive, but more fun.

3d modelling is an option a true mental excercise in frusrtation

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Cobrahistorian

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December 2002
From: Aaaaah.... Alpha Apaches... A beautiful thing!

Posted by Cobrahistorian on Friday, October 3, 2003 10:49 PM

I had an F-86 that went that way. Got all the cool aftermarket stuff for it, painted it and worked the aluminum finish perfectly... and the friggin paint reacted with the metalizer sealer. What a mess....

It became a high-speed impact testbed. Put a pretty nice dent in the wall too...

"1-6 is in hot"

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 3, 2003 11:45 PM

I hate the rotor assembly. It's one of the reasons that as a general rule, I avoid helo's. I have been tempted back, on ocassion, but it has to be an extraordinary kit or must have a good place in my collection.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 4, 2003 9:42 PM

I'm not sure I understand. As you put the rotor shaft down thru the tranny, it the transmission split in two?

I usually outfit my transmissions with a piece of brass tubing with an ID the same as the OD of the rotorshaft. Then I make sure it all fits well, and I epoxy the tubing into the transmission.

I never secure the rotor shaft to the model. IT makes it easier to transprot if the shaft is removeable.

--Jon

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wibhi2

Member since
March 2003
From: Brooklyn

Posted by wibhi2 on Saturday, October 4, 2003 11:00 PM

Unfortunately, the seminar UH-1B kit has a 2 piece plug at the base of the rotor shaft cover and is inserted into the transmission top - it was too tight as I was trying to force it in the hole (dryfitting worked fine) - guess it was a wrong twist with downward pressure from the wrong direction and the whole thing basically exploded.

I then discovered (after an hour of inspecting the inside of my eye lids) I could insert the plug from the bottom of the tramsmission, leaving a portion of the shaft that didn't break allowing me to properly mount and remove the rotors at will- why they didn't do that in the first place, I'll never know.

3d modelling is an option a true mental excercise in frusrtation