ThugFrame arms for the ZMR250 mini quadcopter

The weakest part of the ZMR250 mini quadcopter are the arms and although the fanbois claim never to have broken any, I've got a very large pile of cracked and broken original ZMR arms here.

In this video I try out the 3mm full-carbon arms from ThugFrames and they seem to work *very* well... effectively restoring sanity to my deranged ZMR which was suffering from a violet pitching motion due to the vibration that the old arms allowed.

It now flies a hundred times better -- so much better in fact that I didn't even crash it so I'll leave testing the "toughness" of these arms for future flights.

Disclosure: These arms were sent for review by ThugFrames.

ThugFrames: http://miniquadfpv.com/
ZMR250 arms: http://tentech-rc.co.uk/frame-parts.html

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Quality versus Value - and why stuff breaks (ZMR250 mini quadcopter analysis)

More on the broken ZMR250 mini quadcopter arms and the whole matter of reviewing products.

The ZMR250 frame is inferior to the brand-name products I have looked at to date. That is a simple, undeniable fact -- and the stress analysis diagrams plus physical measurements in this video show one aspect of why this is true.

However, just because a Honda Civic is not as good a car as a Bugatti Veyron or Bently doesn't mean it isn't a good car in its own right -- and it is the same with many of the products

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ZMR250 250mm Fiberglass Mini Quadcopter Frame Review from Goodluckbuy.com - Part 1

This is an overview of 250 size mini H-quadcopter frame from China, (www.goodluckbuy.com). The exact model is "ZMR250 250mm Fiberglass 4 Axis Mini Quadcopter Frame Kit". There is also a carbon fiber version of this frame for .

This frame was including shipping, so it is very inexpensive if you want to get into 250 size quadcopter. However it is a heavy frame weighting in at 170 grams for just the frame.

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