Spindle Swindle?

[BradMorris64]

For those of you whom own both the Blade 400 and the CP Pro 2 you have no doubt discovered the price discrepency between the spindles for the two birds. For the 400 you spend $4.59 and get 2 spindles, 4 screws and 4 washers. However, it will cost you $4.99 for 1 spindle, no screws and no washers for the Pro2... even though they are the exact same diameter, threads and material. The only difference is that the 400's spindles are actually longer than the Pro 2's

The fix...

Use the 400's spindles on the Pro2 by simply adding a .069" (the thickness of a quarter) shim that slides on the end of the spindle between the screws and the step washers when mounting the blade grips. You may need to shave a small bit off of the butt of the blades, but it's worth the little extra effort IMHO.

Good luck,
Brad

[JohnM]

Thanks for the tip...the Blade CP spindles are so way overpriced. Do the Esky HBCP2 spindles fit?

John

[tutelarRC]

Nice tip! Thanks!!!

[WickedDragon]

Originally Posted by BradMorris64

Use the 400's spindles on the Pro2 by simply adding a .069" (the thickness of a quarter) shim that slides on the end of the spindle between the screws and the step washers when mounting the blade grips. You may need to shave a small bit off of the butt of the blades, but it's worth the little extra effort IMHO.

Good luck,
Brad

Hey Brad....nice find. Let me understand, you're spacing the shaft at the blade side of the grip at the screw?

Have you tried spacing it between the head and the grip? This would give you a touch bigger disk diameter too, which wouldn't be a bad thing!

[BradMorris64]

Originally Posted by WickedDragon

Hey Brad....nice find. Let me understand, you're spacing the shaft at the blade side of the grip at the screw?

Have you tried spacing it between the head and the grip? This would give you a touch bigger disk diameter too, which wouldn't be a bad thing!

Yes, I put the spacer on the blade side of the grip between the step washer and the small washer against the head of the screw. If I put it on the head side, it pushes my bell mixer arms off center. It might still fly okay, but I didn't even try it.

Interestingly enough, the inner diameter of the main shaft of a Blade 400 slides perfectly over the spindles. If we could find somebody to slice one up into .069" long rings, they would work perfectly!