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I was just browsing through the Heliguy forums this morning, and
came across a thread concerning making a flybarless rotor head for
the well know Belt CP....
As
I have loads of old rotor heads lying around, I decided to grab one
out a s/h spares box and tear it apart and see just how easy of difficult this may
be.
To
my great surprise, 2 hours later I had my new flybarless head
mounted on an old Belt CP frame, and spinning up just perfectly.
That is not to say that there were not couple of little problems
that had to be sorted out, but overall, this was a pretty easy task.
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Something that the eagle eyed amongst you may notice
from the images above of the head in place is that the old
Belt CP frame I
have used has already has the well know RDTS
(Reverse-Direct-to-Servo) modification done on it using the
Mini Titan servo mounting trays.
This makes no real difference to the new
head, and it will work exactly the same on a standard frame.
The only difference is that I have Anti-rotation bracket at
the front rather than the back to achieve the full RDTS.
The first thing to realise is that the main
rotor blade
holders have to be turned around through 180 degrees so that
they can now controlled from the LEADING edge, which is
necessary to have the swash still work the same way, in other
words going up will increase the collective pitch, and vice versa. I guess
that if you have a programmable radio, you could leave it the
original way with trailing control arms, as you could simply
reverse the pitch settings in the Swash Mix area of the radio.
Most of the work involved in
this project is REMOVING LOADS OF UNWANTED PARTS.
I just pulled the head off the
main shaft, disconnected the swash plate and put it to one
side, and then removed the entire flybar system, flybar
control arms, flybar holder etc, leaving the top of the main
head moulding very empty as shown in the picture above.
Next you put the swash plate
back on, and connect the two anti rotation drop arms from the
washout levers to it in the normal way. The other end of
the washout arms is no longer used, so I decided to cut them
both off entirely just the other side of the mounting screws.
Now I refitted the main shaft
and put it all into the old Belt CP frame. I then connected
the servos to the swash plate in the normal way,
The most "difficult"
part came next. the hub that the washout arms ride on is
designed to slide and up down on the two locating pins that
come down from the main head moulding. With a flybarless head,
you DO NOT WANT IT TO DO THIS AT ALL, it must locked in a
fixed position on the main shaft.
That is where the word
"difficult" come in. You need to adjust it up and
down the main shaft on the locating pins until you find the
best position that gives you the right pitch range on the main
blades.
To do this, I fitted the main
blades, disconnected the motor for safety, and then, because I
was using the stock Esky 6 channel radio, I switch it into
idle up and placed the throttle stick at 50%. This means
that I knew the pitch curve was also at 50% (because that is
what the Esky radios give you in their fixed curves)
Now it was simply a matter of
getting the pitch on the blades to be ZERO, and ALSO GIVING
THE CORRECT AMOUNT OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE PITCH. You do this
by (1) changing the position of the washout levers hub, and
(2) adjusting the length of all three servo connecting rods to
raise or lower the swash plate.
After a bit of fiddling with
both of these, I got them both correctly positioned, and then
marked the main shaft immediately above the hub so that I know
where to position it after applying the stud lock.

The picture above shows the
best way to sort this position out. This was taken with the
throttle FULLY UP in NORMAL MODE. You can see quite clearly
that the remains of the 2 washout levers are parallel at
this throttle setting. If you fix the sliding hub to the
main shaft in the position shown, the rest is just a question
of adjusting the height of the swash plate to get those arms
horizontal. After that you can adjust it as required to give
you the pitch range you want.
Once that was done, I rechecked
everything to ensure I still had zero pitch at mid throttle.
Then I turned Idle up off and checked the pitch range I had
available. To my great surprise I had from -8 to +12
degrees in NORMAL MODE, far more than is normally possible
with a standard head.
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