Re: Bigger heli recommendations

Beav wrote:
> "Carl Farrington" <carl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> news:66vdi2F2m7um9U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Thanks guys. I certainly would be thinking of a nitro machine as the
big 
>> lipo battery packs are too expensive. Nitro is cool anyway. Just a pain
to 
>> have all that starting gear..
>>
>> Parts cost would be a concern, so I guess a 60 sized machine would be a

>> good trade off. I don't fancy mechanical CCPM when my radio does it 
>> electronically so I guess everything's pointing to a T-Rex 600 nitro at

>> the moment.
>>
>> The only thing that concerns me, is that having a 450 SE V2, I can see 
>> that the machining tolerances at Align are pretty poor. If they made an

>> engine to the same tolerances as they made my swashplate and other head

>> parts, it'd be a pretty crap engine. I'll read some reviews and see
what 
>> the quality is like.
>>
>> I could probably stomach the cost of a decent heli, and would stretch
to 
>> one of those Synergy N9 things, but the parts prices are way too high
on 
>> that one. I'm happy to pay more for a heli but it has to have
reasonably 
>> priced spares for when I'm feeling poor.
> 
> Problem is Carl, expensive heli's are usually made up from expensive
parts.

That did cross my mind.. :(