godofcable

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here's the thing though, throw a servo saver on there, and even if it skips you'll still be able to finish the race. A LOT of tracks wont let marshals fix trucks on the track, so if you pop a ball cup you either need a pit guy or run down and fix it yourself

vr6cj

iTrader: (124)

Nope, just drilled holes for the mounts.

tonyxcom

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Most of us are tightening the servo saver on the SCTE to the point of being useless and as much and as hard as I crash that thing my 1258TG hasn't had any problems.

You have to remember that we run a body over the front wheels, so the servo might be getting saved from the type of hits a buggy or stadium truck is prone to.

goehm

iTrader: (45)

I think the logic is that during club races or qualifiers, you're ok with maybe losing a servo in the oft chance you hit that hard, if in the big race/important main you don't get a DNF due to a popped ballcup.

trickedout

iTrader: (31)

man you guys all must be pro sponsored guys or have way too much money...If I kept busting $60 servos everynight my rc account would dwindle fast...

Grandturk

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My logic is that if you pop a ball cup - and lets be honest - if you pop a ball cup the entire link is going flying off and your heat is over. In my experience with today's titanium gear servos, I've yet to strip off any teeth or render them inoperable - knock wood. So I'd rather take the chance that the servo takes a beating vs losing a heat because of a bad design choice.

Besides, even if you did manage to strip a gear in the servo, you'll probably still be able to get the truck around the track.

Grandturk

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Yup servo savers are soon to be a thing of the past. I lock down and glue/thread lock servo savers so they are effectively fixed. Beat the heck out of my SCTE and not had any trouble with the 1258tg in there.

B00t13g

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In a race a popped ball cup usually puts you off pace so you're out of the race either way. If I Dnf I better have a broken chassis.

Frank Root

iTrader: (25)

Hey Guys,

We intentionally designed the 22 Platform without a servo saver, as we feel they are no longer necessary. The AE camp has been gluing their servo saver into 1 piece for years, and for just about as long, we have been locking down the XXX Servo saver. I have personally raced without a servo saver in a 1/10 vehicle for about 5 years, multiple classes, 3-4 days a week on average, and have NEVER failed 1 servo. Some might say, well you don't crash much, but trust me, I do crash, and because of how committed (hard) I drive, when I crash it is often catastrophically hard.

Frank

Grandturk

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Well said, Frank!

But you should have used captured ends!

B00t13g

iTrader: (9)

Yup my xb9 has its servo saver tightened all the way and locktited in place. I've yet to kill a steering servo.

RC*PHREAK

iTrader: (146)

this is a workable solution.

i cranked my servo saver down all the way in my SCTE and it cost me a savox 1258. yes, i could get around the track, but i had about 30% throw turning right. when i replaced the servo, i backed the saver off a couple threads which is still very tight.

as i stated above, i did wreck a servo cranking the saver down. yeah, sure i may be the 1 of 100000 that had that issue, but i'd rather have the servo back and had a DNF for that race (which i might as well have had as the truck was garbage on a track with a majority of right turns). again, that's not for everyone, but for me, i'm not running in big events, just club stuff. for me, they're not worth losing a $60+ servo.

and all of those 1/10 vehicles have ball cups right? i'm not making a case against no servo saver with ball cups. i'm making a case against no saver and captured ends.

losi b

iTrader: (5)

Frank, Ryan or Casper, I had a inner thrust washer come apart on my 22SCT. I'm not sure if it was a fluke or maybe I did something wrong. Do either of you have any idea what could cause this to happen?
Brian

hacker07

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Sometimes in the process of heat treating them, they get too brittle. If you had this happen, you can contact customer service and they will send them out to you for sure.

goehm

iTrader: (45)

Ok - so I have a question, and this comes after carefully following the ballcup issue. I see the trimming of the cups as well as trimming of the steering rack as the suggested solution.

So the issue seems to be a more extreme angle than what the ballcup was designed for.

My question is: do both ends of the turnbuckle/both ballcups suffer the issue, or just the steering rack end?

Then onto the servo saver/captured end topic, would a solution be to run a captured end only on the steering rack side, and retain the ballcup on the arm? That way the arm-side cup would popoff for severe impacts.

I'm assuming the captured ends work because they have a wider range of (up/down) movement.. not necessarily because they're captured. Otherwise, you'd just fatigue the plastic until it failed.

Maybe I'm reading too much into all of this!