dkshema
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Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
| If you want to take a step back into the past and realize you're not going to have a fire breathing, tasmanian devil pirouetting, 3D-ing monster heli, you'll have fun with it.
It was an OK heli for its time. I found the three I owned to be serviceable, flyable, relatively maintenance free, and fun to fly. You can do mild aerobatics with them. My first inverted hover happened with a Nexus many years ago. I found them to be a nice heli to simply relax with and fly.
Don't put a high-speed tail rotor servo matched up with a heading hold gyro in it. The wire-driven tail will act weird as the wire winds and unwinds like a rubber band.
Overall collective pitch range is limited.
The plastic balls on the head linkages get a bit sloppy after awhile. If you find a Zeal swasplate and want to spend the $$ to buy it, it's a good investment. Otherwise you can carefully saw the balls off the plastic parts and install steel balls in their place. Drill the holes carefully and the right size for the small screws.
Individual new parts are getting scarce, there is a plethora of parts to be found on Ebay as people are selling off their old machines on a regular basis.
The main rotor blades are an odd size -- 535 mm. If you're lucky, the Nexus you end up with would have had the upgrade thrust bearing kit installed in the head.
The main gear doubles as the gear that drives the tail rotor, having the gear molded into its top surface. If you accidentally stick the tail feathers into the grass, the main gear usually ends up losing a few teeth. Main gears can be had, but you have to look around to find them.
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* Making the World a Better Place -- One Helicopter at a time! *
Dave |
