EastBay RC Guide to Soldering

Overview.

This are the notes and videos for a two-hour introductory soldering class.  It's designed to be taken Khan Academy style -- watch the videos and read the notes first, and we'll be able to spend the entire class on soldering.

• Hands-on class, two hours.
• Time: 15 minutes, intro and tinning soldering iron; 15 minutes, tinning wire; 15 minutes, soldering thicker wires; 10 minutes, soldering thinner wires; 30 minutes, soldering PCB; 10 minutes, heat shrink; 15 minutes, soldering pads.
• Watch the videos first, be ready to practice in class.

EastBay RC is a continuing work in progress. Let me know what you think!

Here's all the videos as a playlist.  Watch it in HD, it will be a lot clearer.  I'm trying to figure out how to specify that an entire playlist should be shown in HD.  If you know how to do this, let me know! Individual videos are down below.

See How It Flies

See How It Flies
An online book about flight and airplanes.

Changing an Outrunner Motor Shaft

Abridged from HeadsUp RC:

1. Remove firewall mount. Requires 1.5mm allen wrench (12 cents at Ace Hardware!). Sometimes can be quite difficult to remove.
2. Remove C-clip and washer at rear of the motor that retains the shaft. Removing washer can be most difficult part, as it tends to hang in C-clip groove.
3. Pull motor bell off of stator. (motor bell = outer part with the magnets, stator = inner part with windings). Do this by grasping motor tube with a pliers where the firewall mount was located, and pull on the motor bell with your fingers. There will be resistance from the magnets.
4. Remove flange from the motor bell by removing 10mm retaining nut on inside of motor bell. (May be asier to remove nut if shaft removed from the flange first. Loosen two set screws on front of motor bell, then drive shaft out of flange with hammer and small punch.)
5. Insert the new shaft with flange, and secure with nut on inside of motor.
6. Reinstall stator, washer and C-clip.

Heads Up RC Brushless Motor Guide

Heads Up RC has a great guide to brushless motors.

Adding a 1S lipo to a KeyCam

Quick YouTube video showing how to replace a KeyCam battery with the small E-Flight style battery.

Beginner Guides

These links are tutorials for beginners.

• RCSuperPowers Beginner's Class -- 12 Video Episodes with lots of Supplements.
  
• Lee's Blog, Getting Started in RC -- lots of good stuff.
  
• Lee's Shopping List for Beginners - this would have save me many hours getting started!

todo: break this apart