Have you been stripping those soft, cheap and badly made Align button head collar screws on your 700N main frame? Have you been looking for an alternative for it, but can’t find any better alternative to those odd-sized screws? It seems Liron from Israel has a decent solution-washers with machined collar.

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I just know that some of you are also flying the 4#3B around your living room, too (so do I). One of the biggest gripes with this bird was the brushed motor - sometimes, it did not last for even 10 flights. Now, Walkera has two upgrade accessories mentioned on the 4#3B page: a BL controller and a BL motor. Let’s see when this hits the stores…

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Some might have read the article I did two weeks back on the Raptor 50 Xtreme edition…Somehow, it got lost in the server upgrade process and so I did a repost of the article HERE.

In any case, I have continued on with the little project and finally have got everything sorted out. For those the busy ones who just want to know the results…Basically, this whole conversion is definately a worthwhile effort. It corrects the bad tendency of the stock raptor head, that is the pitching in FFF and slow roll rate. It gives a very nice feel in the cyclic, not too slow, nor too sensitive. With the new head, I can get that sort of “pop” effect that I thought was only possible on the 90 size. A lighter pair of paddles like the super stubz will make this head even better for 3D.

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Bert did it again: he flew the T-Rex 250 - this time using Align’s new carbon fiber blades and the 16 tooth pinion. The only thing I’d like to add would be: “wow” — and answering the question Bert posted on his site, “New T-Rex 250 videos with CF blades, insane power?”, I’d go for an: “uh, definitely!”! 

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They keep the hits coming with the new colored framesets for the Align T-Rex 700.  Looks like silver is in again along with a few more.  The black one looks like tis fiberglass.  The prices are incredible.

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The design of the Align T-Rex 700 is one that seems to be going unchallenged.  The Align regime seems to be what Apple is to the cell phone industry.  Everyone is trying to create the “T-Rex” killer.  Aftermarket parts for the Align T-Rex 450 were plentiful but with Align now being quick to react to any market need for their heli’s….there hasn’t really been any holes to plug.

The up and coming Tim Jones, Pilot now turned RC Helicopter Engineer has R&D and now produced this amazing hop-up for the extreme 90 3D market.  I myself haved installed and tested this handmade prototype and its everything he promised it would be, an END TO STRIPPED T-Rex 700 main gears.