Hey Neil did you ever get that break in the wether you've been hoping?
I finely got around to finishing the bearing swap last night. With all new bearings and a thorough swash cleaning it spinning freer than it ever has before. I think I picked up a little more flight time also. When the TX timer went off it felt like there was still quite a bit of punch left in the pack. I'll have to do a little more testing to see about that.
I just narrowly avoided disaster after the rebuild though. Wile I was doing my pitch set up I saw that the blades were way off from each other. At mid stick one blade was -1 and the other was +3. After messing with the linkage for a wile trying to get the blades closer I finally found what I thought was a lose screw in one of the lower mixing arms. It turned out that the screw hole in the washout was completely striped. As I got my magnetized screwdriver close to it the screw actually backed out about half way. Can you imagine what would have happened if that thing had fallen out in flight!
Luckily I had a CNC washout and mixing arm set sitting in my parts box. But its one of the blue sets. So now I have a calico looking head on the 36. Silver, black and blue.
O well it fly's good.