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Old 11-20-2006 | 09:02 AM
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jonlowe
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Jason,
Be careful with the really small metal geared servos. I ran some JR DS 3421s on ailerons last year with metal gears, thinking that I'd change them to nylon when they got a little sloppy. The difference between a little sloppy and totally stripped was a very fine one, and a servo lost 3 teeth in one flight, landing with one ailreon working. The very fine gears in these small metal geared servos wear very quickly once there is a little slop, and the teeth are so fine that they don't have much material to wear before they strip. Ailerons are particularly vulnerable. This was with an OS 1.60 which doesn't shake as much as the big 4 strokes.

I changed the gears to nylon, and never had another problem.

Just a thought...

Jon

ORIGINAL: JAS


I was going to use 9602’s, but I’ve since found a couple of 3002’s that I’m going to use instead. Being that the 200 is a prototype, I haven’t seen how much is doesn’t shake yet, so I’ll keep the metal-geared servos in for now. After I know more, I’ll order up some 9650’s and put them in my Integrals.