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Antiques or Out of Business > TSK Helis?

Scott_MT
Heliman
Location: Great Falls MT

Where are you able to look into them and get one if desired? Everybodies sites say that only certain places carry parts. Did they go out of business?

Thanks Scott S.

01-14-2002 Over year old.

Blair
Key Veteran
Location: Republic of Canuckistan

TSK

TSK closed it's doors in Japan last January.

Most stores are either out of parts or close to it. I believe the US importer Silas Kwok still has a bunch.

Also Helitech USA is a new company started by a TSK pilot to produce knock off parts and eventually machines.

Check them both out.

There is also a TSK mail list but it is VERY slow these days.

Blair (Ex-Tsk Pilot)

01-14-2002 Over year old.

ed vega
Key Veteran
Location: nyc, queens

I spoke with Silas Kwok and he indicated this is true .. Silas indicated he still has a support for parts and will provide parts . helitech is a new place and they are ready to provide aftermarket items .. HHI was involved but mostly kwik stuff with acrostar heli .

we still havn't heard from hi products people yet so lets wait see .. I still have my fleet of tsk blackstars and mystars and hope HP makes an announcement soon ..

01-14-2002 Over year old.

z11355
rrMaster
Location: 10000 is enough time wasted.

Hi Products was only interested in some of the FG fuselages
that TSK made. The president of Hi Products has repeatedly said
that they have not purchased nor will purchase nor are interested
in the actual machines, stamping dies, CNC programs, etc.

Too bad, they were great machines except for that $160 thin as
tissue canopy.

01-14-2002 Over year old.

HOMEPAGE

Robertc
Heliman
Location: El Paso, TX

TSK

Hi Products is getting most parts out now. Ordered some at the end of
Nov and they delivered within a week.
Still some new kits out there, just have to look. Silas may have a few left. Saw a TSK Mystar 30 on Ebay today, used but looks in great
shape with great servos.

01-14-2002 Over year old.

Robertc
Heliman
Location: El Paso, TX

Helitech, not HiProducts

Made a mistake. I should have said
Helitech is making TSK parts now, not Hi Products.
www.helitechusa.com

01-14-2002 Over year old.

z11355
rrMaster
Location: 10000 is enough time wasted.

Your kidding. HiP is delivering parts? Directly through Silas or what?

01-14-2002 Over year old.

HOMEPAGE

oldfart
Elite Veteran
Location: Vancouver, Canada

TSK parts

I understand that the Canadian dealers have liitle problem still getting parts from the Canadian distributor.

Still a lot of them flying here on the West Coast of Canada. On sunday there were 13 heliflyers out at our local field - 4 TSK, and I didn't have any of mine out even.

01-15-2002 Over year old.

Safe_Cracker
Key Veteran
Location: Chicago, IL

HELITECH , YA RIGHT........

I WENT TO HELITECH AND REGISTERED JUST TO FIND OUT THEY ARE SOO-VERY OVER PRICED IN ALMOST EVERY TSK PART THEY HAVE! $60.US FOR A MYSTAR 60 CLUTCH BELL.THAT IS OVER $10. MORE THAN AT HHI.ARE THERE PARTS MADE BETTER,STRONGER OR ARE THEY JUST TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ARE WEAKENED CONDITION CAUSED BY TSK RETIRING?I LOVE MY MYSTAR 60 AND WILL NEVER GET RID OF IT.I THINK WE NEED TO FIND ALTERNATIVES LIKE ADAPTING PARTS FROM OTHER HELIS.RICK'S SIGHT USE TO SELL TSK PARTS VERY REASONABLY PRICED TOO.I ASKED HELITECH WHY AND OF COURSE NO ANSWER, YET.IF ANYONE HAS ANY IDEAS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL ME AT POLO469@HOTMAIL.COM

ONE OTHER THING.I NOTICED AFTER 2 YEARS OF FLYING MY HELI THAT THE CLUTCH BELL WAS NEVER DRILLED CORRECTLY AND HAS A SLIGHT WOBBLE.I SEARCHED EVERYWHERE TRYING TO FIND THAT DARN HIGH FREQ VIBE AND FINALLY FOUND IT.ANYONE ELSE EVER HERE OF THIS?
LET ME KNOW, THANKYOU.....

03-13-2002 Over year old.

the Wasp
rrProfessor
Location: Vt

If you want a nice heli like the TSK I would take a good look at the Bergens !!

the Wasp

03-13-2002 Over year old.

ed vega
Key Veteran
Location: nyc, queens

doesn't the bergen heli remind you of the gmp heli's? ..

03-13-2002 Over year old.

Safe_Cracker
Key Veteran
Location: Chicago, IL

OK,BUT.

I AGREE BUT, WHAT DO I DO WITH BY BELOVED TSK MYSTAR 60? I HAVE A GREAT DEAL IN IT AND A-LOT OF GREAT MEMORIES!!!THIS IS MY BABY, LOL....ALL I WANT IS A RESONABLY PRICED CLUTCH BELL THAT WAS DRILLED PROPERLY TO BEGIN WITH ! DO YOU KNOW OF ANY HELI CLUTCH BELL THAT COMES CLOSE TO LOOKING IT MIGHT WORK ON A MYSTAR 60 WITH MINIMAL MODIFICATIONS?REMEMBER NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE...

03-14-2002 Over year old.

oldfart
Elite Veteran
Location: Vancouver, Canada

SC
Did you get the post I sent you privately? It may have had the answer to your problem. Also re: converting to a GS.

P.S. Please stop posting using capitalized letters. On the web that stands for shouting and I am sure when you speak you do not always shout.

With what I see out there, I think I will be able to keep my TSK's running for a number of years...by then there should be something adequately better to encourage a swipe of one of my charge cards

Actually I am so impressed with my Falcon 50SE that I am hoping the rumored Century Falcon 60 will come out to replace my MyStars

03-14-2002 Over year old.

Safe_Cracker
Key Veteran
Location: Chicago, IL

Not loud just LAZY!!!!

No i didn't get the reply via-pm if you could e-mail it to me.I know what caps mean i've probably been chatting longer than most out there.I just get lazy and it's easier to lock it down and type.Usually it only bothers people new to the chatting scene.It's almost like walking through a Home Depot, if a person says high, or asks if you need help, there new!! hahahhaha.

03-15-2002 Over year old.

alvinrc
Veteran
Location: Mobile, AL, USA

Yeah...There are some lazy people working at Home Depot and many other places who have forgot basic manners and proper work ethic.

Many more who have not.

I have been posting to a few forums over the years and all caps are not commonly used by pros as the message is actually harder to read.

03-15-2002 Over year old.

HOMEPAGE

ed vega
Key Veteran
Location: nyc, queens

hopefully with every good machine there is a equal comeback in one form or another .. what I don't understand is why many of the top flyers weren't too swayed by it .. can't be the cost cause it was priced right .
after you compare the mystar 30/60's to the others , it faired pretty well .

03-15-2002 Over year old.

Steve Campbell
Elite Veteran
Location: Baton Rouge, LA

C'mon, Ed; you know why the TSK line didn't flourish here.

Such a shame; until theyfound it necessary to get in bed with Quick, TSK stuff was second to none.

But you know something? My basic, plain-vanilla X-Cell 60 flies just as good as the MyStar 60 I had did. The MyStar was a lot easier to set up, but there were some build issues involved with it, just like the X-Cell.

Anyway, it's a shame that TSK went away.

Steve

03-15-2002 Over year old.

ed vega
Key Veteran
Location: nyc, queens

steve - yes tsk had it's day in the sun - short lived , I know about the erwin siner debacle of knowingly watering down tsk with quick parts, also you mentioned something previously about the owners demise..

there were at least two other distribs that weren't watering it down, one of them is silas k. the other was a west coast tsk usa dealer .. don't know what happened to them as they were more aligned with the contest scene , seasoned flyers .. I suspect there was a distribution fight .. as I was told by mr k. . to go to silas for stuff ..

my xcells were always great to fly, way too many parts though. It was hard to part with it until I got the blackstar b130 and converted it to a b160dl forward facing engine, but I always like the simplicity of those cnc machined parts that the tsk had and the internal pitch slider unit which sold me every time.. the feedback to the swash and servos was almost eliminated this way ..

oh well thats the way it goes

03-15-2002 Over year old.

Steve Campbell
Elite Veteran
Location: Baton Rouge, LA

I hear you re Silas and Robert Gorham. If Mr.Gorham had not suddenly disappeared from the competition scene, perhaps TSK would have gotten more exposure.

But I can tell you that Silas was never interested in being a big promoter/dealer. He has too many other irons in the fire. Again, unfortunate.

By Quick parts, I was referring to the AcroStar. The other individual was using whatever he could have cheaply produced on the MyStars he sold. I almost cried the first time I saw a GENUINE, all-TSK parts MyStar. Machined, as opposed to stamped, bell cranks and other parts, etc. but the biggee was the superlative NTN bearings everywhere.

We live and learn...

I hear you re the BlackStar/FiveStar ships too (your reference to the internal pitch slider). Absolute works of art. But didn't a BlackStar frame set alone sell for $400?

Steve

03-15-2002 Over year old.

ed vega
Key Veteran
Location: nyc, queens

right steve , if robert was around he would have kept the candle lit, and give everyone a run for there money. be nice to find him again - lets put out an ABP.

I originally got my blackstars from the west coast - a dealer named nick nicolas, his place was called vortex r/c .. any one heard from him too? but the b130/160 kits was only $1200 then early 80's .. and yes the frame kit from irwin were always overpriced as with everything else.. only had to change the upper frames once for alot less .

I got my msv2ems ccpm version from silas for about $800 a year ago. this one doesn't have the internal slider nor does it need it , but would be very interesting to see a ccpm with it .. what other heli's used this concept now?

the acrostar was a waisted effort and a wash , no significance to it .. the rotor head mixing was complicated with the xtra linkage added to the flybar and mix arms .. a machine without much merit .

after flying tsk for so many years , I admit I'm spoiled and partial to the what was the tsk line , advance concepts of what a fine heli should look and fly like .

well times change right - the only other one I feel comes close to it is Sitar modellbau .. another high end heli, a fine product, I still have their main and tail rotorblades and paddles - doubt we'll ever see one at the field or ff.

like you said - works of art ..

03-15-2002 Over year old.

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