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Old 10-01-2012, 06:14 AM
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Default RE: $1,000.00 bounty offered to fix COMP ARF A4 steering

I'm going to try the bleeding methods you guys have posted (Thanks btw!). Here is a post on the A4 Skyhawk thread where I was about to buy a complete hydraulic pump and system. It's amazing what the scale truck and tractor modelers use for these systems:

-from the other thread:


I'm looking into some more sophisticated hydraulic solutions. IE, using a hydraulic pump and valve system to actuate the hydraulics instead of a servo. I have been doing research in the "Earth mover" RC group and found a bunch of info related to this. Here is a company that makes hydraulic retracts. I believe we can utilize this system to actuate our hydraulic stearing cylinder. I've found all kinds of different cylinders to. Here are the links:

http://morpower.net16.net/index.php?...tegory&path=59

http://www.robbe.de/zubehoer-ersatzt...aulik.html?p=1

http://www.gardentrucking.com/produc...esort=1&max=10

Electric cylinders:
http://www.cti-modellbau.de/index.php/cat/c32_.html

This one under Hydraulic (lower page):
http://www.leimbach-modellbau.de/

Well, this is a start. I had no idea how incredible and technical the RC truck and Construction gang was:

http://rctruckandconstruction.com/forumdisplay.php?f=7