Nitroholic Posted April 6, 2024 Share Posted April 6, 2024 Picked up an S300 mCX off EBay. It was only £29 and I mainly bought if for the good shell, tail and skid set on it. These are very hard to find for the S300 model, and I wanted a spare. Listing as usual tell you nothing about overall condition, but this one had a broken swash plate, a linkage that had been melted on after they snapped a ball joint off, and a servo that was stuck. Replaced the swash from my pile of parts ( I have a box full of assorted chassis, shells, blades etc. so everything I needed was there) cleaned up the servo and replaced the linkage. Gave it all a clean while it was apart to get rid of any fluff etc. plus I put a drop of oil on the bearings. While I was at it...I have started to adapt a damaged S300 canopy I had to fit on the mSR. It does go...sort of...but the rear mounts don't come close. I will be 3d printing some small pieces to hook it up. I have laso bought a small vac-former. The plan is to 3D print some moulds to vac form canopies. Shouldn;t be much effort to adapt the S300 shell and vac form some that will work better. As well as making some replacements for the stock part. Could have some fun. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlo888 Posted April 6, 2024 Share Posted April 6, 2024 (edited) Nice, I was looking at this one but was not confident I could fix it. nice one there is another one but description does not match and when asked question, no reply…. Edited April 6, 2024 by karlo888 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted April 6, 2024 Share Posted April 6, 2024 nice pick up mate and look forward hearing about the 3d printed moulds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlo888 Posted April 6, 2024 Share Posted April 6, 2024 No nothing about 3d printing except it was very very expensive back in the day. is it still expensive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitroholic Posted April 10, 2024 Author Share Posted April 10, 2024 not really now. A basic PLA filament printer can be had for around £200, which isn;t too bad. I have made a load of parts for hte RCs with mine, making battery boxes, servo mounts, etc. If I can model it in 3D software..then I can make it in plastic! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlo888 Posted April 27, 2024 Share Posted April 27, 2024 Wow, that’s handy. Do materials etc cost a lot to 3d print? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitroholic Posted April 27, 2024 Author Share Posted April 27, 2024 A kilo reel of PLA is about £15 and it does a fair amount of printing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlo888 Posted April 30, 2024 Share Posted April 30, 2024 Nice. Seems to have well dropped in price the last I looked at 3d printing 👍👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitroholic Posted April 30, 2024 Author Share Posted April 30, 2024 plus, ocasional bargains crop up. This is the newer version of the one I have: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126342299219?_ul=GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlo888 Posted May 3, 2024 Share Posted May 3, 2024 Thanks for link. just looking into this. as the helicopter parts are small, can they be reproduced by this 3d printer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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