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Old 10-15-2013 | 02:15 PM
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I'm on my original set of balls after 48 years. Still trying to wear them out. :-)
Freaking hilarious!!!
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Old 10-15-2013 | 02:27 PM
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I'm on my original set of balls after 48 years. Still trying to wear them out. :-)
I got 36 years on mine. They still work.
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Old 10-15-2013 | 03:24 PM
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Jconcepts steering rack and the Avid slipper. Other than that run it Luke you stole it. Lol
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I'm on my original set of balls after 48 years. Still trying to wear them out. :-)
Haha, I just showed this to my wife and she replies with "well obviously hes not doing it right then" haha, I showered my tablet with monster.
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Old 10-15-2013 | 04:35 PM
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I just got access to a 3D printer would anyone wanna give me some designes for aarms?
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Old 10-15-2013 | 04:51 PM
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Haha, I just showed this to my wife and she replies with "well obviously hes not doing it right then" haha, I showered my tablet with monster.
Lol. My wife keeps saying the same thing.
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Old 10-15-2013 | 06:43 PM
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I just got access to a 3D printer would anyone wanna give me some designes for aarms?
Well every single one I have broke are all around the inner hinge pin so maybe more meat around it can help.
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Old 10-15-2013 | 07:13 PM
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I have a feeling though, like others have mentioned, the arms are designed that way.
Like a crumple zone in a car that is designed to be the flex, crumple or in rc arms break area.

If the arm was designed to resist failure more so than the bulkhead, you'd be tearing further into your car to repair it. If your hitting a post or whatever immovable object at a high rate of speed, something has to give. I would prefer to change an arm instead of something further down the line.
Think of the screw count to get to the lower bulkhead compared to changing out an arm.
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Old 10-15-2013 | 08:09 PM
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I have a feeling though, like others have mentioned, the arms are designed that way.
Like a crumple zone in a car that is designed to be the flex, crumple or in rc arms break area.

If the arm was designed to resist failure more so than the bulkhead, you'd be tearing further into your car to repair it. If your hitting a post or whatever immovable object at a high rate of speed, something has to give. I would prefer to change an arm instead of something further down the line.
Think of the screw count to get to the lower bulkhead compared to changing out an arm.
We'll give me stronger arms if I start breaking other stuff then make that part stronger, it's almost comical how easy arms break sometimes. How come my tekno can survive hits going twice as fast it weighs twice as much, but my b44 can't, it's not like I'm the only one breaking arms and how do other brand cars not have this problem, it's design flaw and why should we just deal with it. Ok say what you want like don't crash but even the pros had dnfs due to breaks.
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Old 10-15-2013 | 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by dirtbikekid33
We'll give me stronger arms if I start breaking other stuff then make that part stronger, it's almost comical how easy arms break sometimes. How come my tekno can survive hits going twice as fast it weighs twice as much, but my b44 can't, it's not like I'm the only one breaking arms and how do other brand cars not have this problem, it's design flaw and why should we just deal with it. Ok say what you want like don't crash but even the pros had dnfs due to breaks.
Are they breaking with out you hitting anything?
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Old 10-15-2013 | 08:34 PM
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Are they breaking with out you hitting anything?
Pretty sure I said I hit things, I also said the pros hit things also.
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Old 10-15-2013 | 08:46 PM
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I don't need the arms to survive a head on or hard into a wall. But we all occasionally clip a pipe or cartwheel and hopefully the arms don't break on stuff like that.
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Old 10-15-2013 | 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by rcgod
I don't need the arms to survive a head on or hard into a wall. But we all occasionally clip a pipe or cartwheel and hopefully the arms don't break on stuff like that.
Anybody break the new hard arms.....got a pair put have not put on yet. Hard arms and new balls, B44 is out to get some.
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Old 10-15-2013 | 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by dirtbikekid33
We'll give me stronger arms if I start breaking other stuff then make that part stronger, it's almost comical how easy arms break sometimes. How come my tekno can survive hits going twice as fast it weighs twice as much, but my b44 can't, it's not like I'm the only one breaking arms and how do other brand cars not have this problem, it's design flaw and why should we just deal with it. Ok say what you want like don't crash but even the pros had dnfs due to breaks.
that's funny, you called people telling you not to hit things

If you make the arm stronger (heavier), you need to make the bulkhead stronger (heavier) and then what the bulkhead connects to, the chassis, a couple more holes and screws. Then you need beffier pins. Then you need... you get my point.

The wheeler is the F1 of offroad and built for speed. SCT (especially 1/8 based) is an apple to orange comparison. That class is built for those that bang doors and are built for drivers that may slam into things on occasion
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Old 10-15-2013 | 09:09 PM
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The xb4 doesn't break arms or any other parts regularly and it's not "Beefey" it is built top notch, hb looks to be as well. How about try it and test it,
then we will see? You never know, maybe the arms can be a bit stronger still but not too much that other parts will fail....? It's not always black and white. This is why we test.
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Old 10-15-2013 | 09:11 PM
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All I know is when I break stuff I look more at my driving not the integrity of my equipment. I'm running a 5.5 on a high bit wide open big jump track and iv only broke one arm and it was my fault. So maybe I'm not getting the same arms as everyone else!
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