QUOTE=Gray Beard;12001759]I use them both and haven't seen a nickles worth of difference. I have seen a difference in the rods that come in ARFs as hardware and don't use them except once in a while for throttle, they bend easier to get an angle and seem to hold the bend pretty well. Most of them are metric too and don't fit the SAE clevis.[/QUOTE]




Hi Gray Bear,


That's exactly why I am looking into buying these rods. I have had the exact experience that you have described. Weak rods that end up bending. The worst problem is the thread size. For the Novice and even the Experienced modeler can be accidentally tricked into using these ARF rods when in a rush or just accidentally mixing them up with other rods. Like me I have an old monokote cardboard tube hanging from the rafters down in the basement filled with Nyrods, plastic tubes, assorted length's of 2-56 & 4-40 steel rods etc. But the biggest issue is accidentally using an ARF steel rod with a steel clevis rather then the nylon one that it most likely came with in the ARF box with the plane. "Because that surely will come off" the steel rod somehow, someway I can guarantee it, and you will loose the plane and your investment and hard work, just like it happened to me. On a second flight of an ARF "Ugly Stick" I made the same mistake by using an ARF supplied steel rod and a Steel rod that I already had in the shop. Big "NO, NO"..... Now that's an experience.

But thanks Gray Beard for the info. about the Dubro vs. the Great Planes steel rods sold in the packs I have pictured above.

Thanks