Originally Posted by
Matthew_Armeni
What servo are you running that you're stripping gears? Myself and a few other here at Tekno don't run servo savers on our SC and 8th scale buggies and I don't believe any of us have stripped gears. We've had a few plastic case servos get a little loose at the output shaft but that's about it.
We're talking about the Schumacher K2 and how it uses captured links... I was explaining the trade off with captured links and the added stress that is placed on the servo (without a servo saver). I've been using a PowerHD 8312 in most of my cars, I currently race 5 classes with this servo, and over the course of 7 years of racing, the only car I've stripped with this servo is the K2. I have had problems with a Radiopost RPS2207M in my 1/8 buggy, but swore off that servo after replacing 2 gears with the internal gear within a gear stripping out, I believe that to be a fundamental design flaw with Radiopost IMO.
On my PowerHD 8312, it's the main spline gear that's stripping out, I simply rotate the gear 180° and drill a new 2mm hole on the opposite side to remount the swivel pin:
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I probably strip this gear once every dozen or so race days and it usually involves a very nasty crash... never broke a single part other than 1 shock shaft on the car, but having to swap a stripped gear every so often isn't any big deal to me, I always keep a spare servo in my pit box.
As far as my Tekno SCT410.1 goes, it has a built in servo saver (on the steering post) and never stripped a servo gear on that car over the 4+ years I've been racing it, so if the EB410 uses a shrunk down version of the same servo saver, then that would be awesome