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10-11-2011, 01:41 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: tri cities
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|  how do you break so much???
I'm into the scx10 axial scaler rigs. I'm sitting here reading these guys say,"I broke my c hubs real fast" "I broke a drive line in less then a day" "my esc fried after a day" blah blah blah.. what the hell are you guys doin?!?!? Ive broke 1 drive line with a 15t venom mod motor and my drive line was stretched. Ill just off a rock over 2 feet high and land right on a front wheel and mine hasn't broke. I've never just fried a esc or servo. Do you not know they don't handle 6s lipo stock??? I run 2 3s lipos in parallel at a total of 2700mah and a bec on a stock esc and haven't fried anything or broke anything. Please explain to me how do you guys manage to destroy these rigs so dang fast? I'm very hard on all 3 of mine and they all hold up very well. |
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10-11-2011, 01:42 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: tri cities
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*jump not just
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10-11-2011, 02:23 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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I like to stand on mine while driving them in the rain....
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10-11-2011, 02:26 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: San Diego
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10-11-2011, 02:27 PM
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| MODERATOR™   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ohio
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Standing could be interesting. I've been planking on mine. I kinda wondered why the tires were so flat, but never got around to looking for stiffer foams. My approach angles are terrible. Maybe I'll try owling on it. |
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10-11-2011, 02:36 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Paw Paw, MI
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------------ I've wondered the same thing. Until I upgraded my motor (just this month) I had 2 years of trouble free bashing aside from one fried servo (my fault). I threw on some Mud Slingers and a few different bodies but never broke any driveline. With the more powerful motor though, weak links have been popping up...driveshafts, output shafts, etc and my driving style didn't change any, all breaks happen on obsticles I have done 100s of times (my backyard course isn't THAT big, a few minutes you've covered the whole thing so you run the same lines quite a bit). Maybe just coincidence that things were wearing out after all this time and abuse, but all hell sure broke loose quick after! I can't imagine if I was on 3s  | |
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10-11-2011, 02:52 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: I miss Rowdy
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I batman from mine.
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10-11-2011, 02:55 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: tri cities
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Don't get me wrong, I know stuff is gonna break sooner or later but we are talkin about guys that just take it out of the box and that day stuff has broke lol. Yea I know the drivelines are weak, but they aren't the easiest to brake with a stock 27t axial motor or a cheap 35t can. I guess I've just always had the luck of stuff not breaking on me or the common sence of "hey, if I do that again it may break" or "man that wheel is really wedged in there, I may not wanna floor it with it in there". I would like to stand on mine and drive it through rain stock though, that does sound like a hell of a time   |
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10-11-2011, 02:55 PM
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10-11-2011, 03:06 PM
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| Sometimes, I make things.   Join Date: May 2009 Location: Mt. Upton
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Sometimes you will find something on a RTR that wasnt assembled perfectly, or on kits where someone did something wrong and it will cause breakage fast. I just got a Wraith and just testing it out in the living room my knuckle almost ripped itself off as it was assmebled w/o the top screw holding it to the C hub. It then broke the first time i took it outide, i think mainly due to it flexing first then being bound up (with better esc, motor and bigger tires but just on 2s). Also other reasons, there is a lot of weak points on most RC's if you really push them, thats why aftermarket parts are so prevelant, things break and people want it better for next time, part of why the knuckle broke is the crappy stock steering tie rod can allow a lot of flex and your wheels can overtravel in the steering and your axleshafts will spin in the cups and tear stuff up. I am pretty rough on my trucks, i rarely get something out w/o breaking something, its just how i am with my toys, always have been. I beat on them because its fun to watch them crash, roll, flip, what have you because it just adds to the fun, and the "That would have been cool if i made it" lines that you will just keep trying over and over, because you think/know you can make it, and all of a sudden you realize you have been there for 15 minets beating the snot out of your rig. They will break, if they dont, your not wheeling hard enough, but then again, if thats how you like to drive, so be it, as long as your having fun doing it, its what its all about. Last edited by crazyorigin; 10-11-2011 at 03:09 PM. |
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10-11-2011, 03:18 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Knee deep in a creek with a fish on the line
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4 words: Ghost ride the whip
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10-11-2011, 03:20 PM
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| Suck it up!  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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If you haven't broken anything, you aren't driving as hard as you think you are.
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10-11-2011, 03:25 PM
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| Scale Detail Engineering Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Turtle Island
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10-11-2011, 03:30 PM
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| 20K Club  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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Also when you build a real full scaler they tend to weight 10+ lbs and that starts to show weak points. Not breaking = not driving (when stock) | |
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10-11-2011, 03:30 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Rock Bouncin' with the Patented Technique
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Im currently running a 10.5t on 11.1v and it will get up and go. Rear steered TTC Class 3 scaler. I've broke 4 drivelines, stripped spur gears, idler gears, wheel hexes, ect ect. Pretty much because I drive mine like it was built. Southern buggy. Wide open assualts. Thats how I like to drive.
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10-11-2011, 03:33 PM
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10-11-2011, 03:37 PM
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10-12-2011, 09:58 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Vermont
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I also scratch my head at ease of things being broken sometimes. If there is insane power being but through a truck I can see drivetrain issues but stock RTR electronics on a NIMH battery and screw something up??? I like to beat on mine a little bit but I also like to not be broke. Replacing parts all the time is NOT fun for me. I also go on hikes with mine and carrying the POS 2 miles back to the truck because I broke it would tick me off. |
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10-12-2011, 04:50 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2006 Location: akron
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breaking=not knowing how to drive. | |
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10-12-2011, 05:39 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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