Ground Maintenance Part 2

I have the Raven dismantled and ready for reassembly. However, I realized that I have left the helicopter tail and the main shaft at Cikgu Vanan's shop!

This was the first time for me putting up together the upper frame part myself, so I was very careful, doing and learning at the same time. Luckily I have the Century Raven Manual which I downloaded from the Century Helicopter web page, it was very helpful.

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I dropped by at the shop on the Saturday night to pick up the tail and main shaft, reached home at about 10.30 pm (after some shopping with family).

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The epoxy has settled for about 24 hours, that should be sufficient for it harden and hold the broken part.

At the same night, I managed to just fit in major parts into the frame, they are tail gear, main gear, counter gear and their bearings. These are the important part, any mistake here, I will need to open up the frame again!

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Next morning (Sunday), I continue to put the screws, servo brackets and other parts.

Of course while doing this I also need to stop and manage other humanitarian/family/home stuff as well.

By 6.54pm I have the Raven put in together except for the main blade.

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Continue to complete it. Finished pitch setting at about 7.25pm. I manage to get +11 to -10 degree in range for the main rotor blade pitch.

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Ready for test flight...

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