Ufly pinion gears
Has anyone found a good source for pinion gears for the Ufly? That .4 mod seems to unique.
Posted on: 11/5/2011 11:11 AM by Author "karlik" in the forum "Walkera Helis - Dragonfly, etc.."
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
After another stretch of "time out" errors trying to open this site (been roughly a week I haven't been able to access), and the recent virus that too waaay too long to correct, I'm sorry to say I'm outta here. You guys all be safe and have fun.
Posted on: 3/23/2011 2:06 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=10418239

RE: Virus Blocked
All of the comments regarding "users to better protect their PC's" are valid and correct. It is not uncommon for a bug to slip through. [b]BUT[/b]... IT IS STILL THE REPONSIBILITY OF THE SITE TO MAINTAIN A SAFE SITE. This was reported to RCU on 2/20 (or perhaps earlier). If it has in fact been corrected, it took at least 3 weeks. Not acceptable. And lets not forget how often we wait for 5 to 10 minutes for the site to actually open in our browsers only to get the old "timed out" error. Either your "large IT team" is totallay inept or they just don't give a %#@&. RCG is making this claim - [i]"Hey we just did the math and we're juuuust under 10,000 posts per day! ...and our nearest rival (RCU) is getting just over 2,000 posts/day according to big-boards.com."[/i] I can believe it. I'm not getting time outs at RCG. I'm not getting virus alerts. Sorry RCU - I'm gonna say a few goodbyes the I'm outta here.
Posted on: 3/23/2011 1:53 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
[quote]ORIGINAL: dunkonu23 Jerry told me about this about a week ago.  I've not had anything except that stupid ad that pops up something that looks like it's your computer scanning itself and finding tons of virus.  RCU needs to get rid of that ad.  It's stupid to keep something around like that.  Besides, at the end of its run, it wants to download something.  Dangerous.  Nothing found after that goes with a full system scan in safe mode. Scott [/quote] Nope - not a "your system needs to be scanned" scam - it's an actual virus. I did a system scan this morning and it somehow made it through and was on my system. RCU was first notified Feb 20? I think a month is about long enough to get it fixed.
Posted on: 3/13/2011 10:36 AM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
Ivan - Everybody should have protection of some sort, but I am a firm believer that above all else it's the forums responsibility to provide a safe site. The warning is back again this morning - I think I'll check back in a week or two and see if they get it fixed.
Posted on: 3/13/2011 9:19 AM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Virus Blocked
I'm still getting warnings as of March 13 - I belong to a few gaming forums that have this problem every now and then and they fix it within days if not hours. It's been going here for way too long.
Posted on: 3/13/2011 9:03 AM by Author "karlik" in the forum "Forum questions or problems"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
Jerry - AVG has been warning me for about a week now. I'd say 50% of the time it warns a file is a trojan, I isolate the suspect file, and the page opens fine. Take a look here - [link]http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_10350318/tm.htm[/link] Appears it was a real threat and not a false trigger. I'm guessing it's one or more the ads on the page. They (the admins at RCU), think it has been fixed. But to be safe, if you get another warning, assume it's still real and don't try to byass it. You might also do a complete system scan just to make sure no little nasties have crept through your security. (probably a good idea foe everyone here - I did one yesterday.)
Posted on: 3/13/2011 12:58 AM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
[quote]ORIGINAL: dunkonu23 ... Other than that, it's snowing again. :( Scott [/quote] No snow here (although we did get some late Feb and early March - never snows that late in the year). But if I tried to fly today, it would probably end up landing someplace in Canada. [link=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theweatherbeat/2014454803_winds10.html]Gusts of 50 mph headed into Puget Sound [/link] Up here, March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a politician. Nothing but wind.
Posted on: 3/10/2011 12:03 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
Yeah - I went ahead and did it. didn't create any email accounts or change/modify anything so it [i]appears[/i] to be harmless. Dave - did a quick test. Amazing what a simple laser pointer will do when you hook it up to a 2 cell lipo.... [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRamqnkIrPU[/youtube]
Posted on: 3/9/2011 10:05 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
[quote]ORIGINAL: phillyD About the google and youtube thing, All I did was click on the sign out highlighted in blue, and that was the end of that. [/quote] Yeah - I can do that to watch other peoples vids, but I can't upload my own movies or or make comments or anything. If this is just a basic sign in account I don't mind, but google, and yahoo, and msn, and aol, etc are all notorius for changing things like home page and tool bar and so on. It's like if you listen to rock music and when you get an oil change the guy changes all of your presets on your car radio to country western.
Posted on: 3/9/2011 4:37 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
[quote]ORIGINAL: dknovick ... Larry- No missile defense (LOL), but I was going to add an airborne laser system, just in case. I just logged out and then logged back into youtube, and I don't have a google email account., and it didn't ask me to create one. I know the two can be tied together, since you need a google/youtube account to root your Nook Color... I imagine it would create another email account for you, but can't say if it will install the google toolbar. I can see not wanting the other things, but if not the google search engine, what do you use? -Dave [/quote] Hadn't thought about lasers - I feel another video editing session coming on. I use the original search engine (well not "the" original, but almost) yahoo. And I am totally locked out of you tube at this point -
Posted on: 3/9/2011 2:07 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
Been away a while dealing with personal stuff - lost a good friend. [quote]ORIGINAL: clp.eng I'd like to see one of these companies offer the micros with a tail that doesn't use a motor. I'd be impressed then! Chuck [/quote] Walkera makes a 4#6 fixed pitch with a drive shaft tail (the main is a small brushless motor). It's been around longer than the Ufly so I guess that makes my Ufly a larger vesion of the 4#6. Heading hold tail. Probably very much like a smaller guru with a shaft instead of belt. My brother has one (I did my first nose in his bedroom with the 4#6). If you are serious about a small indoor heli, I give it a big thumbs up (unless you wanna spend the bucks on a CP). [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkEqACliirc[/link] Just tried to log in at youtube - and it tells me I have to create an account at google. First thing I see is it auto selected to track my web activity - I'm not sure I want to sign up for an account when they default to that. Has anyone else done this? I don't use google for anything - not my search engine, no email there - nothing. Does it create another email account I'll never use? Does it install that stupid google tool bar? Does it change my home page or modify my settimgs so now default search engine is google? To be honest, I'm leaning towards moving all my videos to the one Max uses (vimeo?). Welcome back Dave. Has your employer installed a missle defense sytem to protect the investment?
Posted on: 3/9/2011 12:52 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
[quote]ORIGINAL: maxmax77 yeah it's cooling down here again -Max [/quote] Max - you keep triggering my old fart memories, and I just can't help but give you a history lesson. Your comment "cooling down here" reminded of an entertainer who had two careers and went by two names. At first he was known as Sheb Wooley. His acting credits included the movie High Noon, and he was a co-star on the old tv series Rawhide with a kid named Clint Eastwood (wonder what ever happened to him?) He made one record under that name in 1958 and it was a HUGE hit - [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE[/link] When his acting jobs started getting hard to find, he went back to his singing career and started doing parody recordings of hit songs (he was the original Wierd Al Yankovich). He created a drunk character named Ben Colder, and introduced himself by saying "Ben Colder Here" - and always got the reply "Aint been no colder here than anywhere else" [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ZcY-qHSMw[/link]
Posted on: 2/19/2011 7:25 AM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
Ok - No wind this morning so I got a little brave and moved the weights in on the Ufly flybar. I must say I do feel a difference with that heli. Still flyable, but but a little less stable and a little more twitchy. I think I'll stay with "normal" for now. *note* - When I first got the Ufly I put a metal flybar on - same as the Falcon - and found it was waaaayyy to twitchy for me and went back to carbon fiber.
Posted on: 2/18/2011 10:42 AM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
[quote]ORIGINAL: clp.eng Moved the flybar weights all the way in & didn't notice any difference. So I'll leave them off & save some weight (for Jeff!). Then it hit the boxes & broke another blade holder and the bearing holder. However, I can't seem to get the pin out of the main shaft to remove the damaged bearing holder. So Guru down! Back to the msR Chuck [/quote] Interesting – I moved the weights on my falcon full in and saw no change either. Wonder if it’s ‘cause our fp helis have a much slower head speed than the cp guys? What new heli ya putting together? My brother and I have been looking at the EXI 450 trex clone. Try using a smaller diameter "pin" to push the old one out - but keep your fingers out of the way. I ran a T-pin clean through my finger doing that.
Posted on: 2/15/2011 1:47 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
[quote]ORIGINAL: clp.eng Gees, if it wasn't soooo windy (>18MPH gusts), I'd have the Guru outside today = ~40°F & sunny. Even warmer but windy for the next couple of days. I'm getting heli fever... Chuck [/quote] We have 20 mph right now, expect gusts up to 50 later today. And 90% rain. I've made some adjustments to the ufly and it feels a little more like the falcon. I turned the pitch and roll gyros down to zero - i think they may have tried to correct for my stick inputs? And I increased the servo throw and made it a bit more "twitchy". I now have a much more stable side in hover. I got around to nose in for about 5 seconds Sunday then spun back around real quick. That is the first and only time I've nose'd the ufly.
Posted on: 2/14/2011 12:26 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: exceed rc?
[quote]ORIGINAL: ptb [8D]Just wondering ? , which walkera heli is it copied off of ? [/quote] Lots. The Exceed falcon 40 is a Walkera #4 (both version 1 and version 2), the Exceed Madhawk is a Walkera CB180. The Exceed warhawk looks like a walkera 5#4 to me, but I'm not 100% sure on that one. My understanding is everything exceed markets is just a re-branded Walkera - but I'm getting that from threads in different forums so it's not official.
Posted on: 2/11/2011 4:29 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "Electric RC Helis"
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RE: exceed rc?
Exceed is Walkera (China) helis that are re-branded as Exceed and sold through xheli.
Posted on: 2/11/2011 9:30 AM by Author "karlik" in the forum "Electric RC Helis"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
Looks like you guys got hit pretty hard. Just noticed it's been a while since we heard from Max - hope things are ok up in his corner.
Posted on: 2/3/2011 1:44 AM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Cheap Beginner Heli?
[quote]ORIGINAL: thehuntingterminator and by the way, car guys are alot nicer :)  [/quote] The term you're looking for is troll - unfortunatly there are lot's of 'em in all forums in general nowadays. There are those of us who are happy to share whatever knowledge and experience we have, and then are those who think the best way to look smart is to try to make other peole look dumber than them. I spent roughly 30 years flying planks before I decided to venture into the rotor part of the hobby. My local hobby store didn't carry much of anything when I first started helis (now they have the really cheap, tiny coax toys) so there was no help there. At the time at my club there was only one part time heli pilot so no help there. I was like you, I got into a forum, tried to read the threads and asked questions. I don't see anything wrong with your original post, aside from the question does get asked a lot. Sad part is when someone wastes your time to tell you that answering your question would be a waste of time. Best advice I think I can give you is once you find a heli go to the elect heli forum and look for a sub-forum for your bird - there are sub forums for t-rex, walkera, esky, etc. You'll find you get fewer of the useless smart-a$$ answers in the the smaller sub-forums.
Posted on: 2/2/2011 1:47 AM by Author "karlik" in the forum "RC Helicopter General Discussions"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
Last Nov/Dec we went about 3 weeks with 2 to 4 inches of snow that turned to ice and temps that stayed in the teens. Lots of power failures. 3 transit buses in Seattle and Tacoma slid on the ice and rolled over. Too cold to even walk over to the school, much less try to fly. And I'm guessing most of the East Coast would love to only have 4 inches of snow/ice and temps in the teens. Chuck - repairs are a bummer (especially the tail boom) but 10 seconds in a confined area is waaay cool. I hope I didn't come across like you're doing it wrong trying to take off nose in. I tried that at first but I was stuck with either grass or a parking lot and the training gear wouldn't slide at all, so I was forced to do plan B. I agree it's cool to watch somebody else do it, but not sure I'll ever be able to.
Posted on: 1/31/2011 8:33 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
Chuck – You’re a bit ahead of me as far as nose-in takeoff. I tried it last time we had decent weather and crashed before I was really off the ground. I don’t think there’s a need to learn how (except when it’s the method used to learn nose-in) so I’ll pass. It looks to me like what’s holding you back is space. By the time you think “I gotta go right� and feed in left stick, it’s too late and you have to power down. I went through that trying to nose-in in the front yard and I had a little more room than you. I bet if you were in open field it’d only take a few tries.
Posted on: 1/29/2011 11:36 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
oops - my bad. I remembered last night that a couple times my ufly has done something wierd. After I turned everything on and waited for binding to finish, I noticed the blades on the tail were very slowly changing pitch with no input from me. I moved the stick a little and centered the blades, and watched them very slowly change pitch again (the servo arm was slowly moving ccw). The first time I unplugged the batt, turned off the xmitter and gave the heli a real good visual check. Everything looked ok so I turned it back on and all was fine. It happened a few times again weeks later and I just turned it all off and on and re-binding fixed it. It's a long shot but you may be seeing the same type of thing? Other than that, has anything changed since last time? replace or adjust gyro, servo, etc? I hate stuff like this - it worked ok yesterday, nothing is broke but it won't work today. Sometimes I get the feeling it's because there's an "H" in thursday. During the short time we simmed together, Max did some very controlled nose in and even some inverted hover. If the "Ice Age" up where he is ever ends, watch out.
Posted on: 1/26/2011 7:12 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
Chuck - I'll give you what little answer I can... My brother put the EZ blades on his falcon, and had some real trouble with the tail. I'm making kind of a guess but it appears those EZ blades have a lot more pitch/bite so you hover at a lower throttle. The lower throttle means the tail is also running at lower throttle - but the the tail still has the original blades that don't bite as much as the EZ mains which means the tail can't keep up. Keep in mind his falcon is/was a motor drive tail. He was using the original gear drive tail motor. He went to the GWS direct drive tail system and although he had to add a lot of trim it would hold, barely. I'm pretty sure the EZ blades would have the same effect on the Ufly. I'm really guessing here and hoping others will chime in, but I would look at 2 options. Can the gearing to the belt drive tail be changed? Maybe, but I wouldn't want to go there. Can you get bigger blades for the tail? Some people claim to have put trex 450 blades on the tail of the ufly (just to make it handle better - go figure), maybe that's an option for you? Again, I'm just guessing based on what I saw on his.
Posted on: 1/25/2011 4:42 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
option would be the join screen shows "maxmax77 at tangamanga" or "karlik
Posted on: 1/22/2011 8:40 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
Well, that was interesting. Not sure what field you were at, seemed to work bet if I was the one with the wind sock. I had a couple pauses that caused a crash, a few times it just switched back to camera on yours mid-flight, and I lost the heli a few times when I was watching yours instead. I notice on mine the sound is reversed - if you are on my right I hear it to the left.
Posted on: 1/22/2011 5:12 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
slsblrry at yahoo.com Not making much sense to me. I just joined a person online, and saw his plane. I was in the gym, and he ws sitting there with the aileron trainer - there's not enough room to fly that in the gym. As you just said, he was at every field. Sometimes his plane would move a few feet them re-appear where he started, sometimes he was actually flying. The biggest problem is my camera was always locked on his plane - I could only see mine if he actually managed to get close to it. I couldn't fly at all, just watch him. And oh yeah - just tried to install yahoo messenger - there is no option to not install the d*** yahoo toolbar. I can uncheck all the other crap but the toolbar will install by default so messenger is out, don't want to be forced to add crap I don't want or need.
Posted on: 1/22/2011 12:05 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
Max - I think we are 3 hours apart? I'm Seattle/pacific time. I got sidetracked tonight. It's 6 here, and I see Ikkobob and the two demos. I tried ikkobob but don't know what field he would be in so I don't know if it worked. Pick a day when you know you're available, and we should also pick the same field. I have an account at yahoo so I can use yahoo messenger if we end up needing something like that.
Posted on: 1/21/2011 6:22 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Struggling with single rotor basics V2
[quote]ORIGINAL: maxmax77 Larry and whoever else has clearview; dyou want to do netplay sometime? It's wicked easy to set up now, and until I get phoenix I figure it'd be fun to fly with some of you! [8D] [/quote] I can give it a try. I don't have the access to the router here so if it's blocking anything (ports, etc) I'm screwed. And I have never been able to get a microphone to work in Vista (I have a mic - but vista doesn't hear a danged thing), so no voice communication.
Posted on: 1/21/2011 2:35 AM by Author "karlik" in the forum "E-Flite Helicopters"
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RE: Walkera 4-6 or Ufly??
They are pretty much the same thing except for size. The Ufly would handle better outside in a slight breeze. The 4-6 would be better inside in a more confined space. And as already said when you start to actually fly the ufly will get small quick enough, the 4-6 would be harder to see. I bought my Ufly from wow - it was a modified "super" version. The servos they put in it were a piece a crap and didn't work right from day one. When I first powered up they would freeze and make a loud buzz for about a minute. They would freeze up mid flight and cause a crash. Here's a video of the start up sequence - [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZA8DjGrtUk[/link] The esc/bec was defective from day one - power would fail mid flight and the heli would drop like a rock. When I approached them they told me it was perfectly normal for the servos to make that noise and I didn't know how to fly. They put in an off brand esc and a different receiver so to correct all of the problems I had to buy new servos, a wakera speed control and the correct receiver. My $250 heli turned into just short of a $400 heli before it would fly right. The Ufly is an ok heli, but my experience is wow hobbies has zero customer service and they modify the heli and put on cheap crappy parts - I would say stay the heck away from them.
Posted on: 1/17/2011 9:04 PM by Author "karlik" in the forum "Walkera Helis - Dragonfly, etc.."
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