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Originally Posted by Electric Dave
That is unfortunate news. I just got my new 8T 2.0 and converted it ( http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19101 ) with a Losi plastic Spur. I can't stand the sound steel on steel makes and was hoping the Losi would be as durable as my old Kyosho's were on my CRT.
Did you burn up only one? Any chance it was just some bad plastic? |
Dave, the gear failure was kind of strange. I ran Kyosho plastic gears in my truggy/buggy and what would happen is I would knock off a few teeth from either landing with the throttle on or heavy braking coming off a big jump (both are mistakes). With the Losi spur it looks like it melted, or at least the plastic softened. I had an issue with my last run of the day (when the spur gave out) where one of my eagle tree sensor wires got caught in the rear drive shaft. This could have caused binding, heated up either the motor/center diff causing the spur to get soft. I didn't temp the motor on the last run because the sensor that got ripped out was the motor temp sensor, and by the time I temp'd it with my handheld Raytek it had been sitting for a while and cooled off. Until I hear more feedback on how the Losi plastic spurs hold up I will stick with my steel spur. I am also going to try a 2200kv motor to see if I can get my temps down to an acceptable range.