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Originally Posted by RC-Monster Mike
Send me the bent part and i will send you a replacement - we have a few hundred of these motor mounts out there and only a handful have been bent, so the design itself is pretty strong - I guess the term "normal use" comes into play here. The material is 6061T6 aluminum and is pretty thick - pretty impressive bend(must have been quite a forceful flip, as the strength test on this particular part included me standing on the motor mount and "hopping" up and down a few times). I weigh 185-195 pounds(depending on the season). :)
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He probably got it "just right" when he flipped it! Your stress tests sound alot like the one I do when I make something! As far as the desing goes i have to say that the old style revo mount I got way back when is still working fine. I flipped the 4 tec about 50 times at 70mph and stuffed it into telephone pole, not damage to the mount...
Arct1k may have something here, the mount may have flexed slightly and the pinion caught the slipper plate and pulled the motor under power...
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Originally Posted by BrianG
Wow, that's a serious bend there! I bash my stuff pretty hard and have landed on the lid countless times, not to mention cartwheeling, crashing, etc, and never had that kind of problem. The worst I've ever done is bend the screws that hold the front piece to the bottom piece.
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I have done all of the above and never did bend the screws, I did have them come loose once, so I took some red loctite to them!!!