Bloody Servo

[HighMiles]

My steering servo striped its teeth for the second time in as many months......Is it possible to get better quality gears, such as metal not plastic, or should i just fork out for a better servo.......the one ive got is just the standard traxxas item that came in my truck

[BALISTC]

Buy a quality, metal gear high torque servo.. Its worth it in the long run :)

[HighMiles]

Thanks Balistc......I ended up gettin off my lazy arse and goin to the hobby shop.....they had a good high torque servo that would fit but with some modification, so i just got a new set of gears for my original servo, im gunna see how it goes and if i stuff em again real quick i'll go back and get the good servo i think........the hobby shop dude said it had metal gears and was a 9kg servo, not sure what brand but im guessing its a good one considiering the one i have now has plastic gears and apparently 3.5kg's....

[BALISTC]

Depends which hobby shop u went to..

Could well be a Hitec HS-645MG??

[bd581]

After killing a metal geared servo recently i found that they still have a plastic gear. It acts as a sacrificial lamb to save the life of the others.

But a good servo makes a huge difference

PS. Killed the servo on a AE NTC3 which have the worst designed steering i have ever seen on a car and suffer from really bad wheel wobble. Thats 3 different cars driven and built by 3 different people

[justo316]

In all my years and all my cars, I have never ever broken a servo. I still had all my original sanwa gear from my hornet and had still been using it until recently when bits were given away with cars that I sold.

[BALISTC]

My cars eat servos like you've never seen :P