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Why
do I offer a totally free service to build, rebuild, repair and/or set
up any radio controlled helicopter ?
Well,
from my own experience, there are many new pilots (newbies) that have
real problems in setting up a collective pitch helicopter for the first
time (or even afterwards.) Equally, some pilots do not want to be
involved in the building or repairing process, preferring to just spend
their time flying them,
and are happy to have someone else who will handle builds and repairs for them.
ABOUT
ME
I
am based just north of Blackpool in Lancashire, so if you are ever in
this area, please feel free to drop in and have a cup of Tea or Coffee
with me in my workshop/hanger
I
am a recently retired guy who has been flying R/C helicopters for around
18 years now, going back to large nitro choppers and even gassers such as the
Kalt Baron, Schluter Champion, and the smaller Kyosho Concepts. I
am also a licensed UK General Aviation pilot with around 1500 hours of P1 time
logged in various different types,
and have around 8 hours logged on Robinson R22 helicopters as a student.
I
found very early on in this hobby that I really enjoyed the building
side of it almost as much as flying them, and that led me to experiment
with different helicopters to improve their performance. That was no
real surprise to me as I had been a performance and competition car
builder for many years, and have raced many types of cars over the years
I
nowadays fly mostly electric helicopters such as the Esky Belt CP, the
CopterX 450 SE V2 and the Trex/Align 450. I enjoy scale building
and flying rather than 3D, but can set up a collective pitch helicopter to fly best in
any way you prefer.
Because
I am retired, I have lots of free time, and what better way to fill it
than to help other helicopter pilots while doing what I really enjoy
doing.
THE
DEAL
It
is very simple indeed, you send me your heli, together with any spare
parts you may have if you feel they are going to be needed, I will strip
it down, check it for all possible damage, report my findings back to
you, with a list of parts needed and costs (if any) I will then order
those parts with your authority, fit them, and perform a full mechanical
setup plus radio setup if required. Unless asked not to
specifically, I will usually put training skids on your heli for
additional safety initially, and then test fly it to ensure it is setup
as well as possible to meet your style of flying. finally I will return
it to you in the original box by whatever means of shipping you prefer
(at your cost).
I
do NOT charge you for my time or expertise, only for any parts that are
needed that I am asked to purchase on your behalf and of course the cost of
shipping the helicopter back to you.
If however, once your
heli has been repaired by me, you feel you would like to donate
something to the Heli-Hospital, please check my contacts page and
use the Direct Bank Transfer details you will find there to donate
whatever you feel is appropriate. All donated funds are used
SOLELY to fund the Heli-Hospital.
If
you have crashed your helicopter, I usually ask you to let me have it in
it's crashed form, rather than after you have stripped it all down, as
this gives me a much better chance of assessing what other damage may
have been caused, and ensuring that any other possible hidden problems are identified
early.
Providing
that any parts required can be obtained in a reasonable time scale, most
rebuilds take around a week or so to complete.
I
try to hold a reasonable stock of general small parts to avoid having to
necessarily purchase expensive assemblies when you very probably only need a small
part of it.
I
also gratefully accept any donations of any heli parts, from cap bolts,
nuts and washers to any other parts that are in good condition, or parts
that can be stripped down to provide bits that can be added to my stock
of spares. If you have any such items, PLEASE consider letting me
have them rather than ditching them or leaving them lying around
gathering dust.
If
you feel this service might be of interest to you, please email me in the first
instance at :
chopperaddict@chopperaddict.co.uk
You
can also SKYPE me a text message as netcplus
CLICK
HERE to see some pictures of my workshop
HELICOPTER
TUTORIALS
In
case you are (still) not aware, I also have quite a few tutorials (in
PDF format) that I have written over time covering many of the skills involved in the hobby of
building and flying helicopters.
These
can be downloaded by following this
link...
COMING
SOON
Pictures
of the range of helicopters I have in my own hanger
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SITE IS TOTALLY NON COMMERCIAL AND IS FUNDED BY DONATIONS OF ALL TYPES
FROM OTHERS IN THE RC HELICOPTER FRATERNITY. MY THANKS GO OUT TO
ALL WHO CONTRIBUTE WITH IDEAS, INFORMATION, HELI PARTS OR EVEN CASH DONATIONS TO
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