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My T-Rex SE Setup : My FIRST "blinged" out heli :)

PARTS	GRADE	COMMENT
Overall Appearance	A	Parts look great!!! Very smooth, great machining. Nice fit and finish
Overall Actual Quality of parts	B	Rotor head block is bent and wobbly on mainshaft and the tail rotor blew apart on my first flight!
Customer Service from Empire RC	A	Parts have been replaced rather quickly by Jack at Empire RC...thanks!

* LIKES *	* DISLIKES *
Beautifully machined parts	SE is not fully "SE." They skimped on places. Lower plate is all plastic, horizontal fin mount is plastic
Parts fit well together, excellent looking kit	Cheap bearings used, lots of play in swash and tail rotor section
Nice motor and ESC. Works very well, smooth	Prebuilt (just a personal thing) but I find it completely ridicules that its pre-built and then they tell you to still "check the screws" for loctite. Just let me build it plus the hard parts are not pre-built.
Love the finishing screws and washers but...	Screw heads strip easily especially with the pre-built frame and loctite they use (apply heat)

*** First test flight (about 2 min long) 2-26-2006 ***

Here is the heli so far. Looks awesome! I love the blue caps for the allen screws.	*Head Block Bent* Head block looks great but its bent from the kit! Update: Head block replaced by Jack at Empire RC ...thanks!! (still wobbly, might be swashplate ball not being centered)	Nice looking tail! Very very smooth. I can't wait to try it out.	Awesome
The servos fit very well with a bit of finance. The links are direct and in good alignment. Very nice.	I found some flex here so I turned a piece on the lathe. Only took a few minutes. No flex now.	*Bye Bye Tail Rotor* First flight and the tail rotor grip RIPPED out of the aluminum hub! Luckily, it did not hit me	UPDATE: Jack at Empire RC is sending me new parts for this tail rotor failure. Hopefully the hub will be steel and I will have better luck.
Just playing with the camera		TRUE TEST FLIGHT 3-19-2006 Awesome! It flies great, loops and rolls are well controlled and the heli tracks very well. I love the quite sound!

New Lower Plate Started 3-12-2006

Here is a rendered drawing of what the part should look like when it is done in aluminum. Awesome!

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