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Thought I'd fit some of the upgrades I picked up over the weekend. I've now swapped the ESC,changed out the Spinner and fitted a 10x7 prop. Also added two small strips of 0.5mm x 3.0mm carbon strip on the elevators to help reduce flex when pulling out of a dive.
I took a whole bunch of photos, thought I'd walk through it. Might help someone else.
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I removed the wing so I could better work on the model.
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Removing the two screws on the spinner allows it to come away nice and easy.
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I took a pair of mole-grips to the nut which allowed the rest of the assembly to come away from the motor shaft.
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ST Model Blaze stock 10x6 folding prop next to it's replacement, the Jamara 40mm Alu spinner (4mm Shaft) and Aero-naut CAM-Carbon 10x7 prop.
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Put the assembly onto the motor shaft, made sure it had about a 1mm gap after the spinner goes on.
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The spinner attaches with a single thin flat head bolt. Pretty good fit. just how tight should you go when securing a prop to the motor shaft?
Then I moved onto the ESC, I picked up one of Glider Distributions own brand 40a ESC's all the wire connections were already done so just needed to pull out the old and put in the new.
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Sans ESC
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Wiring everything back up took a little while as there really isnt a great deal of room in there, I needed to make sure I could slide the LiPo right to the back.
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I have the RX and the Telemetry unit velco'd in place one above the other. I then run the RX aerial up and attach to the underside of the wing.
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I popped in a fully charged 2200Mah 3 cell and tested the ESC and prop/spinner. Had to change the two outside ESC connections over as the rotation was wrong but other then that it seemed ok. The new ESC seems great, cool little tune when you power it followed by a number of beeps to ID the battery. I pinned the glider down and ran it at 1/3rd stick for a few mins. I could see no wobble on the spinner so felt happy she'll do.
I removed the control horns on the elevators just to find my replacement Graupner horns to be too thick, I put the stocks back on and added two small strips of carbon. Not really sure it'll make any difference but meh.. why not.
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I still need to add my stripes to the bottom but I'm leaving that for another day. The fella at the store told me many of his customers have used water based hard varnish on foamies to strengthen them (I was asking him about GOOP). So thought I might try that, it'll mean removing all the decals which sucks a little but I guess I can always find more stickers.
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iPhone is lame in low light, sorry about the quality.
J.