OMPHobby M5 / M6 Picture Build Guide

This guide is meant to be used along with the OMPHobby M5 User manual or OMPHobby M6 User Manual. Although the pictures are from an M5 Kit, they apply to M6 as well as both kits have 95% identical parts.
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Tools

Supplies

  • Loctite 243 threadlocker
  • Synthetic grease
  • AB epoxy glue
  • small zip ties (for cable management)
  • hook and loop tape
    (for securing battery to battery tray)
  • your favorite drink and a lot of patience 😉
Table of Contents

1 Upper side frame

Use thread-locker on all metal into metal screws.

1.1 Main plate

1.2 Upper side panel

2 Upper Frame

2.1 Servo rack

2.2 Canopy mount

3 ESC Mounting plate

4 Main Gear

3.1 Main Pulley

3.2 Main Gear

5 Main shaft

6 Lower Carbon Panels

6.1 Mounting cross member

6.2 Right Lower Carbon Panel

Tip: Fasten the battery rail to the carbon panel before attaching it to main frame.

7 Left Lower Carbon Panel

Tip: Fasten the battery rail to the carbon panel before attaching it to main frame.

8 Belt Tensioner Pulley, Gyro Mount and Tail Boom Clamps

8.1 Belt Tensioner Pulley

8.2 Gyro Mount and Tail Boom clamps

Belt Tensioner and Tail boom clamp

10 Cyclic Servos

We chose to use KST X15-1809 for cyclic and KST X15-855X for tail.

Tip: Save the servo arms installation for later when the servos are powered and we know the center position.

11 Tail Gearbox

NOTE: Notched part of Tail box should face on the same side as tail shaft.

12 Tail Pitch Slider and Bellcrank

13 Tail Rotor

14 Tail assembly

15 Main Shaft support

16 Belt Tensioning

Fully unscrew belt tensioner
Pull tail boom back till no slack and tighten boom boltts.
Tighten the belt with belt tensioner knob. for right tension

17 Landing Skids

18 Tail servo and Tail fin

18.1 Tail Servo

18.2 Tail Fin

19 Motor mount

20 Motor Installation

We are using Scorpion HK5 4026-1115kv Motor.

21 Tail Control Rod

23 Swashplate and Swash Linkage

24 Swashplate Install

25 Main Rotor Head

26 Swashplate driver

28 Main rotor Linkage

29 Anti-rotation Guide

It is better to install the Anti-Rotation Guide after step 33

32 ESC

We will be using Scorpion Tribunus III 160A ESC.

33 Flight Controller

We will use Nexus Flight controller with RP3-H receiver.

34 Swashplate Leveling

We use the OriginHobbies M5 Swash Leveling tool. M6 Swash leveling tool also available.

35 Canopy install

I hope you enjoyed this series. Feel free to ask any questions at info@originhobbies.com