Shock Tower

Yes, and it does not make any different.

G-kenny

The Best thing i have found so far to remove slop is,

0.1mm shims

Run a few coats of glue along the inside of the Micro Castor block where the bearing seats, then Push the bearing in, It should take alot of force and should reduce slop

Squeeze the ball cups to remove any excess play.

Drilling a hole and using a grub screw up against the Kingpin.


I would be very surprised if Schumacher dont come up with a fix for this on the next variation on the MI5 chassis. Seems to be something everyone is not happy with.

TryHard

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Had a look at both my cars tonight, and only one corner on one car had slightly more slop than the others... took that corner apart and had a close study of where it was coming from, and pinned it down to the lower bearing being a looser fit in the bottom of the left micro-castor block.
Rather than doing the CA trick, I just put a series of crossed-etches around the inside with a hobby knife, and straight away the fit of the bearing was much tighter, and the slop gone.

G-kenny

Interesting trick! Will try this the next time I build the car up!

Shock Tower

Very interesting. Possible to have a picture of the fix ?

G-kenny

Some new parts from Wildthing due out shortly.

snuvet75

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I'm using 48p 74t spur/39t pinion at FDR 3.41 with speed passion motor. Not sure how V3 motor is different from mine(Mine is MMM but not sure if it's V2 or 3). 4.5 seems just way too high to me because I started at 4.2 and it was getting way behind the other guys with different motor. So I slowly crept my way up to 3.41. Maybe you run at very small track with short straight away. Mine is big sweeping outdoor asphalt track. But when I ran my car in a small carpet track, it was gaining top speed w/ no problem. I have to admit the torque was lacking a bit though. Maybe I should go back to 4.5 as you advised and give it a try

poochy

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nice work TryHard, good stuff, let us know how it holds up

KBRacing

Finally, my Mi5 finished and ready for first run on Sunday.......

haywood

iTrader: (49)

Looks nice! I would run a servo saver otherwise you will have a short race day!

gdcopbdcop

+1! I use the x-ray servo saver. I think it's the best one out there.

Gillblade

That depends on how much u crash... i have done 3 races and some practices with Core alu servohorn without any problems!!!

TryHard

iTrader: (4)

Here is the link where I got the technique from...

http://www.petitrc.com/reglages/asso...TC6_BuildTips/

haywood

iTrader: (49)

I suck!

Shock Tower

Thanks ! I will try it out.