I know how I have always set my gear lash in the past, but I would like you guys to tell me how each of yall do it please. I always get the motor pushed all the way up to the main gear where there is no mesh at all, and run a piece of paper between the main gear and the pinion, sometimes I have to fold it in half so its twice as thick, sometimes I don't. this is how I have been doing it.
I am having issues with the gear lash on my E5 though. I swear I can set it just fine, and the next day it will be too tight again....driving me nuts. I noticed yesterday that it was too tight. I stopped flying, went home, and re-set the lash properly and went to bed. this morning, I swear that thing has tightened back up...now I understand that the environment warming up can cause the lash to tighten up a bit, but this heli was in my workshop at 70F all night....I even made the lash MUCH more than it should have been last night by running paper folded 3 times through it, now there is no lash at all....when I first built it, the mesh was perfect too, and it somehow tightened up resulting in what I found yesterday when I went to fly that prompted me to stop, go home, and re-set the mesh.
I have never had a heli that did this, so am I missing something?
