Has anyone answered the karbonite/blue thread lock riddle? I don't get it why it would cause the servo gear to become brittle. Or do you think this was a "red herring" to throw the public off? Sounds to me like they had servo arm screw issues as well (not long enough/too long) and are just looking for a way out of owning up to the problem. What a bummer. I hope Hitec isn't headed down the road to hell (like Sony, among others) as far as the quality of product is concerned. I just bought the Hitec Optic 6 system with the Spectra, channel synth module and HFD-08RD receiver. I have the dumb luck of buying something just as the bad reports start surfacing! (I'm not saying that I've seen any bad press yet but now that I bought one, I'm sure to see it now) The money was right, I just hope that I end up with a little more or at least as much value as I paid for!

Speaking of servos, what do the experts think is the best buy for the UCD 46? (other than Airtronic, incompatible with Optic 6) I have a 100+ oz. servo for the rudder but I fear that at 0.33Sec/60° speed might be too slow. Plus I fear that my JR NES-517's and 537's might not work even at 6 volts for the other surfaces. I'm trying to keep from laying down another $200 or more in servos in light of the fact that this brand new $160 OS Max .50 SX (when I said "they suggested" in my earlier post, I meant that Great Planes suggested it in the manual, not the guys posting to this thread) is going to be scrapped to buy a 72 or 82 Saito 4-stroke! That would be a drag to have everything else right and no power, or all the power and no servo torque. One of these days I'll get it all right!

Blisster