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Rivermaxx · 08.29.2009, 02:20 PM

I brought the fact up that a steel gear will eat up an aluminum one. No apology needed, how many run did you have on it since you lubed it last?. Now with the new setup, the steel input gear is going to eat up the aluminum idler gear. Aluminum does not make good gears for sure, when it wears it turns into alumminum oxide which is used for sandpaper. I wonder if we could find a delrin gear we could make work. I also read you can boil the stock plastic gear for 10 minutes and it would last longer but I have no way to confirm this. I would just run the steel idler with a stock plastic gear mine seem to be holding good on 6s. When it lets go just buy a new one for ~$5 shiped. Maybe put smaller lighter tires and rims to free up some rotational mass.

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Rivermaxx RC-Monster Aluminum Offline Posts: 638 Join Date: Sep 2008	08.29.2009, 02:20 PM I brought the fact up that a steel gear will eat up an aluminum one. No apology needed, how many run did you have on it since you lubed it last?. Now with the new setup, the steel input gear is going to eat up the aluminum idler gear. Aluminum does not make good gears for sure, when it wears it turns into alumminum oxide which is used for sandpaper. I wonder if we could find a delrin gear we could make work. I also read you can boil the stock plastic gear for 10 minutes and it would last longer but I have no way to confirm this. I would just run the steel idler with a stock plastic gear mine seem to be holding good on 6s. When it lets go just buy a new one for ~$5 shiped. Maybe put smaller lighter tires and rims to free up some rotational mass.