[Homer Bell]

I recently wrote up something on the slider ball on ROG. To not get to technical, my theory is that many are running their blades with too much down pressure on the pitch links causing excess wear on the top of the slider ball. Those of you that are running two springs are causing even more pressure that you don’t feel at the stick. All blades come from the factory with the trailing edge adjusted for several pounds of down stick pressure that needs to be adjusted out. I’ve flown many new ships and everyone of them needed reflextrailing edge adjusted.
If you can’t let go of the collective stick in a hover and have it just slowly go down , your pressure is to high in my opinion . The collective linkage has a tremendous mechanical advantage. What you feel at the throttle grip is multiplied several times at the slider ball.