THE CCPM MODIFICATION THREAD

[fedex]

Well the bird is complete. Wouldn't you know it would be raining outside. I've got the electronics where I want them. Everything is working like it should. I used the helimax full cf frame. I bought it from grandrc for around 40$. I have another frame just in case. I had to use part of the base of the other hde frame for my battery mount, there was no tray on front so I improvised. Also had to grind a bit off the antirotation guide to make this modification work.

I did get in one part of a flight today, its so much quicker its not even funny. I'll see if the flight times are up there tomorrow hopefully.

[fedex]

I did get her maiden flight in this morning, This thing is so agile and its a freagon rocket. Very pleased with the modification so far.

[NY Rebel]

Looks good...
I have a question, where are you putting your battery when you fly?
Underneath?
Or does the eCCPM mod give you enough room to have it angled under front of canopy?

[Gizmo6035]

the battery will fit under the canopy, with minor mods to the battery tray you can get a PQ 2600 in there.

[fedex]

Mines angled under the canopy, I cut a good portion out on the underside of the canopy though, I probably should give it less angle and the canopy would fit without the underside cut out, extending the tray was a good idea.

I crash tested the frame yesterday, it held up well, not even a scratch. But I did do around 50$ worth of damage. It was way too windy to be flying inverted.

Looks good gizmo. Have you flown it yet?

Bo

[Gizmo6035]

Flew a couple of times in the street in front of the house today, it is much more responsive than before, can't wait to get it out in the open so I can see what it can do with a decent control system.
I am running a TRex canopy, it is a little bit larger than the stock MX and I have modified the pin location on the frame as well as moved the mounting hole aft in the canopy.
All the mods allow a 2100 battery to lay flat on the extended battery tray and still have room for some foam padding in the nose. Now I need to work on getting the electronics arranged neatly to use the space created by the CCPM mod.

[fedex]

When I crashed mine, no damage to the cf frame. It was a pretty hard hit. When I was inverted a gust of wind came along and pushed it to one side, I started to roll it back over but it was too late. I had some good headspeed going, I think the throttle hold saved it from alot of damage. That has to be the first time I've crashed and had a perfectly good main gear/autorotation gear/spur gear/feathering shaft. Winds went from 5 mph to 15-20 mph. It doesn't respond as well to wind as it used to, when it weighed 50 LBS.

I replaced

feathering shaft
canopy
skids, trex skids for now "pain in the a$$ to mount"
horizonal stabilizer fin
Vertical fin "very little damage to this one"
tail blades
Tail blade Grips
align Tail tube
Align main blade grips
Main Axis
using 325 pros now " my 315mm blades shattered"

Very responsive , and seems like 3 times the speed, and I'm sure my flight times have improved tremendously..

[Gizmo6035]

here is a better view of the battery tray and a pic of a sotck MX canopy mounted over it

[fedex]

Heres my new look after having to replace my first canopy. I'd like to splash some red on the bottom of the canopy to finish it off. I can't paint these things to save my life.

[fedex]

Originally Posted by Gizmo6035

here is a better view of the battery tray and a pic of a sotck MX canopy mounted over it

Hope you don't mind Gizmo, but I stole your battery tray idea. The bottom piece acts more like a bumber now. should protect my lipos and heli a little better. Since the second and first major crash Im changing a few more things and getting more anal about eveyrhing. I'm putting an xl canopy on it, seems I'm going to have to cut away a bit where the servo horn hits on the right side, guess I'll do the left too after I get the canopy mounts, and my NEW METAL TREX HEAD It was that or either get the trex s cf kit. I was going to cancel the metal head but they didn't have the rex version I wanted so I stuck with the order. came to almost the same price as the entire trex s cf version heli. Considering I'm having to buy skids, canopy, metal head, canopy mounts, blades, flybar, main mast, and a few other things. I can't see replacing plastic with plastic. Not anymore anyway. I bought the metal trex head from grandrc, its pretty nice 130$, btw I needed every plastic part on the mx400 pro head accept for the metal parts and just a very few plastic parts. So this complete metal trex head should be a huge advantage. Not as scary running those high rpms with the align 430L. I'll upload some pictures when I finish the build. My frame/gears/main axis/tail case/stabilizer fins/skids/ will be the only mx400 parts left.

[Gizmo6035]

Hope you don't mind Gizmo, but I stole your battery tray idea

No problem, thats why I posted pics so others can use or modify to suit their needs.
It does save batteries and battery trays.

[NY Rebel]

I just wish there was room to do that on a mCCPM bird.. :mrgreen:

[fedex]

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[Kushal_22]

Yeah this is what I am Wanting to do as well. ANGLE the Battery. I was thining of Just using some Lite Ply? I can go to "The Source""( AKA Radio Shack") but I figured there would have been enough Fellow Heli Pilots that would have made there Own that i Could just ask and find out a Better way.....So Far So Good.


Regards
Mal