Re-Maiden of my Electro Hub after adjustments, Calibration, paint and new booms

[Longwinger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lx10Q-zgQA

After my hovering Maiden, I noticed that I had 2 cracked booms (crooked holes in the boom) and that I needed to adjust some settings and re-calibrate my ESCs. This is my Re-Maiden. Flies great!

-John Griggs
Draper Utah

 

[makattack]

Nice build and nice flying!

 

[sanguizola]

nice flight, hope my maiden goes as good as yours...

 

[joshuabardwell]

If you have some hard landings, the screw holes in the booms will wallow out a little and the booms will get a little play in them. I don't think there is much you can do about this other than use a harder boom material--but the whole point is that the booms will take the shock. If you really were determined, maybe you could install some metal or plastic bushings in the booms, but honestly it's probably overkill. A little flex in the booms won't hurt anything, as long as they are intact (i.e. not actually cracked in half).

With the spider quad, I find that the front booms are more resistant, probably because the screw holes are farther apart and provide more leverage. If you wanted to, you could extend the rear booms further into the hub and get three screws on them instead of two, or two screws further apart, and that might help.