Do any of you use prop savers and are they really any good?

I stripped a gear today and it would have really been great to have had the prop come off or give to save the gear.

What are your comments and advice??

I dont fun fly I strictly 3D with my foamies so I dont want to give up power unless its an insignificant amount..

I use prop savers on my foamy 3D's. It saves me a lot of props. I've made them myself and used the gws ones. They both work. Not sure if they would save you stripping a gear. For that you need to cut the throttle just before the prop hits the ground on touchdown.

I heard that the GWS ones were made of ABS plastic and too brittle. So instead, I used an extra straight servo arm from some GWS Naros. Nylon so its nice and flexible, still I try to cut the throttle before crash landing[8D]
Hope this helps,
Zimbo

BigNed you can make one yourself with a wheel collar. Try and find one that has two grubs or just tap another hole opposite the one present. Then just put two screws in, one on each side to hold the rubber bands. Modelmotors has one now for the axi motors as well. I'm using it on my shocky. It doesn't help the prop all that much when you dork on a hard surface because the prop scratches anyways but i'm sure it helps so that it doesn't shatter. On grass of course it helps alot! It will always save the prop and the nose of the plane. You know so that the firewall doesn't break out of anything funny that could cause more damage.

Yeah chopping the throttle is the key.. I goofed up yesterday trying to pull out of a hover too low and too late in a flight and just ran out of power plus the wind gusted back to me and I had to duck or it would have hit me, prop bit the runway and stripped the gear trying to get out of it, had I chopped the power it would have probably just fallen undamaged..

MIke.