Y6 Copter Build

Pavako RC Engineering

Y6 Copter Build

The pictures below show how the Y6 Multicopter should be assembled. When required a note or comment has been added to describe a particular step in the assembly process.

Use a little bit of thread locker, the blue one, to ensure all bolts are secured. Use six black colored pairs of tube clamps having the long button cap M2.5 screws in place (M2.5 x23mm). Make sure that one of each tube clamp halve has thread inside and the other not. The one that has no thread inside will slide over the screw and will hold the carbon bottom plate in place when the other tube clamp part is screwed onto this piece. Refer to picture below :

Now repeat this process 12 times (so 11 times more) and screw the other tube clamp halves to the other side. Do NOT tighten them (see red circled examples) completely, cause the carbon tubes won't fit anymore. No the following status should be reached:

Before the carbon tubes slide in, zip ties should be added to ensure the ESC's can be tied to the bottom plate. Use three pieces of 140mm x 2.5mm zip ties and bring them in place:

Now slide in the three carbon tubes and make sure all screws are tightened carefully. One should end up as the picture below.

Make sure the zip-ties are pointing towards the correct direction as such that the ESC's can be installed later.

Now take the top plate and mount six nylon spacers of 15mm onto the toplate. On this location the power distribution board will be assembled in a later stage. Refer to the pictures below.

Make sure to mount three zip ties onto this top plate too to tighten the three other ESC's in a later stage. The six nylon spacers are mounted using for each spacer a button cap screw. M3x8 mm. (see picture below)

Now mount four nylon spacers onto position A, B, C and D. Make sure the spacer length is 24,5mm. This is without the thread. I purchased these spacers at Dealextreme with the details below, but I had to sand them off to make sure the lenght is 24,5 mm.

Since the top plate is ready for now we move back to the bottom plate. Locate the six holes and assemble six aluminium spacers using M3x8 mm button cap screws. Make sure to use a little bit of the blue thread locker. make sure the lenght of each spacer equals the height of the tube clamps parts that were assembled before. In this case 28 mm. The hobbyking part number of those alu spacers can be found below.

Use a permanent marker to mark the correct height. I used a dremel to cut those spacers to the correct lenght of 28mm.

Do not use the button cap screws for position E and F. Keep these two aluminium spacers aside for later. Both are fitted using two pieces of 18mmx 3mm thread that is screwed into another spacer that will hold the carrier plate. Refer to pictures below.

Cut two pieces of thread to a length of 18mm. Make sure not to damage the thread because the longer spacers (Hobbyking 450000232-0) should be screwed on the thread that is sticking out.

Use Thread Locker for all metal to metal junctions to prevent that the screws come loose in a later stage. First assemble the seperate thread into the longer spacers. Refer to pictures below.

The spacers are prepared for further use. So leave them aside. Now first mount the two landing gear chassis parts. Be carefull because both do have different slots and notches.

The landing gear chassis parts have different positions in regards to the slots that fit into the bottom plate. To distinguish which part should be fitted where just put them on to of each other and locate the slot that is slightly shifted to the left. This part will should be fitted on the front side.

Make sure the tab fits into the slot onto the bottom plate first. Then the tab should "click" into the side slots. Note : the landing gear chassis part should be bended carefully when the assembly is done. After assembly it should be straight again.