Some of the hard landing bent the frame but since it was steel I just bent it back in shape, (easy fix). I have gotten a lot of experience with using the $20.00 kit and so far can hover and land with ease. I have upgraded the $20.00 version with adding a new Align main rotor housing, clone 4mm Feathering shaft, metal blade grips, and 4mm head dampers. All body parts are stamped steel and not CF. ![]() When the 3 $20.00 kits arrived I found that they were a clone of the T-450se, 3mm feathering shafts lots of plastic blade holders, control arms are plastic, tail rotor are 80% plastic and motor mount is plastic. After being about 50% able to hover and not crash too much, I then purchased 3 of the $20.00 HK T-450 bare bones kits for parts. Since I was a beginner in Heli, I decided to buy the $67.00 kit and felt that if I crashed it (which I did) I would not be out $400.00. The Align pro has larger bearings in the mail blade holder and the HK 450 has a 7x2.5mm and a 8x3mm bearing. The CF body was identical to the Aligh 450 Pro but the rotor head and tail rotor are from the 450 V3 version. Upon receiving the kit it was very complete and no plastic blade holders and 4mm Feathering shaft. I first ordered the $67.00 450 Pro version with the belt driven tail rotor. The price was only P1000 difference so roughly $20 difference. I remember locally one hobby shop the one handling all the align parts sold their ALign kits without the electronics to a price that was very cheap. if you remove the electronics the cost of the heli is somewhat cheap already. In a pack of 3 pcs main shaft on one was good the other 2 were useless as it wont slide in the bearing block.ĪLign helis are kinda cheap now if you try to look at the COMBOS. I had some issues with this before with some flasher replacements shaft. Other are too big that if wont slide in the bearing blocks. Like shafts are somewhat smaller sometime thinner that it has some gab with the bearing. although it looks like the Align one but once you use their parts you will find some tolerance problems. Other clones tend to have bad dimensions. The shafts and gears are quite good though as i find no problem in the dimension as its a direct bolt in on an ALign Heli. The parts are identical in dimension and looks but differ in material quality. The Tarrot is the closest to the ALign if you are looking for an exact replica. eHirobo even states, on there site that "Specification may vary accordingly to manufacturers." eHirobo - Copterx Tail Boom Holder The result is that the tail boom holders are not interchangeable and the gear sets may not be interchangeable as well. The Copterx/EXI on the other hand uses what looks to be a mushroom gear assembly that encases the bearings on the mushroom gear and this assembly is installed in the tail boom holder. This component houses the forward torque tube gears and on the Align housing has channels to hold the mushroom gear bearings in place. The means these items are not interchangeable.Īnother Example in the same 450 Pro can be found in the plastic tail boom holder. Aligns tail shaft is stepped with a larger dia shaft portion supported by larger I/D bearings and the EXI/CopterX have a strait shaft without a step. Here is another example in referring to the TT tail of the 450Pro. With the other brands they have many differences throughout the design if you look close. The Tarot has two square shaped holes where as the Align has two round holes. For example the 450Pro from Tarot and Align are 99% the same with the only difference I can find is the placement of two wholes in the side frames. From what I have seen the Tarot is 99% identical. I was referring to the other clones compared to Align. Your third paragraph, were you refering to the tarrot clone, or ''the others'' I think i'll be looking into the Tarrot Clone then. Like I said, most parts are interchangeable but not Identical. Some differences can be found in the shape of the alum blade grips, thickness of tail boom tubing (thinner), Tail drive gear assy in the Pro, Swash plates, side frames, main gear (usually out of round), tail case (specially the plastic case), etc, etc. ![]() Most, if not all, parts are interchangeable with Align but are not identical. The Others (EXI, HK, CX, Etc) are all made by what looks to be the same manufacture and are close but not exactly the same as Align. I have read that Tarot parts are actually Align parts with Tarot written on them? Tarot (and maybe Flasher) appear to be Identical to the Trex (SEv2 & Pro).
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