Syma Forum

My mom ordered a replacement teapot lid from a guy who makes them in a factory that also makes high-end teapots for major companies, and also ordered two travel "Tea Buddy"'s... Got those, didn't get the lid. According to the little chineese guy, almost 50% of EVERYTHING he ships never reaches the US. He tries to do shipping insurance to cover it, but they all just get lost.

I don't remember the seller's ID, but they do absolutely BEAUTIFUL tea sets at a very reasonable price.

What's worse is that half of what comes from there never comes, for one reason or annother...

Wow, wouldn't have expected it to have that much of an effect that early!

Keep us in tune! Great to see somebody putting this much effort into what everybody else probably thinks is stupid!

Sounds like 2 min for every 50 mah or so!

That's pretty good! I'm guessing that means the 500 would have about a 15-17 minute flight, simply because of the added weight making it exponentially decline.

How much longer did that take to charge?

Got the 200 mah today and put it in my swann, flies great except for the bent main rotor shaft which makes it vibrate a little. I will time the flight on it as soon as it's done charging. I will order a new rotor shaft soon and time it again.

I guess try the off-branded picooz tail rotors, or see if you can fit the ones off of the s032g. If you put too big of one on though, from what I've read, you need to put a main motor on instead of a tail motor. I've also seen a guy cut the boom and tilt the motor. If you put it downward, such as w. the picooz, and tilt it backward (kinda like /---==) then it'll get much faster acceleration, but a slower top speed. On my pet project, I'm thinking of putting it forward (\---==) then it'll have insanely slow reaction times, even probably going backward, but it would, in theory, give a much faster top speed, since it would have the most thrust downward at the best time. Then, it would need a much higher thrust, since less is going downward, which would be painful when stopping, but would also give even more foreward movement.

As far as the battery, 500 MaH would be crazy! I think the originals are like 150 or something! I wonder if it'd give a longer flight time, or burn up as extra speed. Either way, I'd prefer one with about as long flights, possably a little longer, and a slightly shorter charge. That's the slow part. Looked into an rc boat motor, figuring it'd be a nice thing if I ever wanted to do the pontoon mod for some reason. (not like I have a pool...)

Personally, I find mine to work much better without that spring, but it's preference. (My advice from removing the spring from the newer ones, though, is to just not do it if you can't waste a controller, or can't solder the part you will probably break if you're not super lucky.)

Quick question- what do you mean by changing the pitch of the tail?

Changing the blade pitch, or angling the motor?

Too bad for the first one. They have "original factory batteries" on amazon, and the bodies are cheap- something like 3.50. Might only be able to get one that doesn't match, but OD Green spray paint'll fix that!

(personally, I like the look of Krylon "Italian Olive")