Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Fix your drone; fix landing gear.
Ok so I bought a Horizon hobby Blade 180QX quadcopter and flew it for a few days before I smashed it.
The landing gear is too weak for the height this quadcopter falls from. The major complaint I have is that without cross bracing it buckles if the quadcopter lands sideways and bends in the skids as shown in photo below.
To fix it. You can replace it which is a $5 part. But then that doesn't change the outcome.
You want landing gear to absorb the shock but not fold up easily. You will have more down time and less flying with weak original landing gear.
Notice how bent in the gear are from original to new ones. I went to Michaels here in Chandler Arizona and bought 2 foot 1/8 th inch dowells and some loctite. I cut two braces and glued them to a new landing gear. Dry and then install to underchassis.
Scissors work fine to score and snap dowells and clean the edges.
Gelled loctite works fast so you can set both and movertical on.
There the cross braves are added to mske landing transfer more force without snapping the gear.
The landing gear is too weak for the height this quadcopter falls from. The major complaint I have is that without cross bracing it buckles if the quadcopter lands sideways and bends in the skids as shown in photo below.
To fix it. You can replace it which is a $5 part. But then that doesn't change the outcome.
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