what is the best material for rc parts?

Nylon because it can bend and is strong enough. THis is for offroad though. Onroad, CF baby!

it all depends on the application, there is no perfect material.

Depends on what part!

I agree with the others. It depends on what you're doing and part.

Carbon Fiber makes sweet A-arms.
Nylon is lightweight and fairly strong and cheap.
Titanium has all out strength, but is really heavy.
Steel and Aluminum make good all-around, but are expensive and make your truck HEAVY.

offroad!
all around a vehicle

Now what application?

Bashing, racing, both? Which one do you do more of?

It's impossible to tell. Even for a thing like Sleepy does with his T4, there is not one perfect material. Carbon fiber is fairly strong, and extremely light, but making it is very hard, and couldn't be made into something like the tranny case. This is where plastic, nylon, comes in handly, because it is easily molded, and strong.

It all depends on what you are doing. For me, I bash my rusty, but I dont really do much insanse stuff and I dont take that many jumps that could damage a part. The only time I ever have problems with breaking parts is when I crash into something head-on which is quite rarely. Therefore I think carbon fiber would be good for me. But for the guy whos out there jumping cars and stuff, that cabon fiber isn't going to last a day. It all depends on the application.

Reinforced Carbon-Carbon for most parts, obviously not turnbuckles and wires or parts that need to be molded; although it can be.

really, hands? not CF turnbuckles? checked [link=http://www.jdcarbon.com/turnbuckles.html]these[/link] out??

As everyone else stated. It all depends on were the parts are located and on off or on-road cars? For on-road cars I know for a fact that it will be the best for professional racers. This is not acceptable to n00bs because allthough carbon fiber is a very strong material, when it snaps, IT SNAPS. Twice as hard actualy, I bought an Ofna LD3 a while back and it was awesome let me tell you, but lets say you hit a wall going 60, either way, you cars screwed but with the carbon fiber, the stiffness of the parts carryies to other parts and wham you got yourself a christmas tree.

Those turnbuckles arent carbon carbon, there carbon fiber. Still pretty cool, I didn't know those were made.

Hi guys. Just to clarify, our parts are are made from the same real carbon fiber.

Hands - You may be suggesting they don't look the same as carbon fiber woven fabric plates, and that is correct. However, the same carbon fibers which are woven into sheets and sandwiched with epoxy are used to make our carbon fiber products.

The difference is in how the fibers are laid out - the fibers are not woven, they're made using two processes: pultrusion, and wrapping. The fibers are pulled through extrusions using special gigantic hydraulic tuggers and are wrapped with more carbon fiber and protected in an aluminum tube.

Hope that helps

i mostly bash my mlst and savage. i need somthing strong and will take hits all day
is graphite the same as cf

Jd carbon, I know the turnbuckles are carbon fiber, but there not carbon-carbon. Carbon fiber and carbon carbon are two different materials.

That is exactly what I was going to say. But for most applications I would sat TI or CF.

Sorry Hands, I'm not sure I've encountered carbon-carbon material but I'd love to read more about it, any chance you have a link to something that might explain the differences?

I'd say plastic is just about the best all-around material. Easily molded, strong, lighter than metals, flexible, durable, resistant to snapping and bendsw instead, cheap.

The others are specialty. Want a lighter chassis that is stiffer? Carbon fiber.
Want stronger turnbuckles that won't flex at all? Titanium.
Want a stronger metal for screws? Steel.

Etc.

None is perfect, and each has their good and bad points. But overall, Plastics are probably the best, and this is why a lot of companies use it, and because it is cheaper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforced_carbon-carbon ;mainly focuses on its use on the space shuttles. It is brittle but not much more so than regular carbon fiber in small applications, as you can imagine it is extremely light.

make RPM a catagory. i know its plastic but its better then plastic

He did, "nylon"

Got to watch out allot of materiels like aluminum will crack if they get bent and you try to bend them back sometimes happens with titanium and steel too. But nylon and plastic are more forgiving.