Tools
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Ok, you have purchased your helicopter and everything you need to get it the air, chances are you will have spent a considerable amount of money on all the different items so now it all has to be put together.....properly.
It is very important to buy good quality tools for building/servicing your helicopter, when I first started building helicopters all I had were cheap poor quality tools which didn't last very long and they certainly contributed to chewed up screw heads and damaged threads due to poor fitting so believe me when I say cheap tools are false economy.
Always by the best tools that you can afford.
Below are some of the tools that I use for setting up my helicopters to fly reliably but above all safely.
It is very important to buy good quality tools for building/servicing your helicopter, when I first started building helicopters all I had were cheap poor quality tools which didn't last very long and they certainly contributed to chewed up screw heads and damaged threads due to poor fitting so believe me when I say cheap tools are false economy.
Always by the best tools that you can afford.
Below are some of the tools that I use for setting up my helicopters to fly reliably but above all safely.
Vario sell this excellent rotorhead set-up set, everything you need to set up your helicopter rotorhead is included here, pitch gauge for main rotor pitch adjustment, flybar paddle gauges to ensure the paddles are level and in line with the swashplate also included are swashplate locking tools and a ball-link driver.
Another great set of tools from Vario including Allen Keys, box spanners, screwdrivers, ball-link driver and thread-lock fluid essential for keeping everything nice and tight. Vibration is a killer in model aircraft and it can loosen nuts, bolts and screws very quickly usually resulting in a crash!
Vario supply some great tools for helicopter building and maintenance tasks, this precision screwdriver set is worth it's weight in gold.
This flexible glow plug spanner is ideal if like me you fly Graupner or Vario helicopters, sometimes the glow plug can be quite difficult to get to on these helicopters and this tool solves the problem.
This long Allen Key is handy for getting at the floor bolts in fuselage helicopters especially if the doors don't open.
This is arguably one of the most important tools in helicopter set-up. This is a blade balancer for ensuring that each blade is exactly the same weight, if the blades are out of balance this will create vibration in the helicopter and cause the blades to run out of track.