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08-12-2004, 02:52 AM
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| Quarry Creeper  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Elizabeth City
Posts: 244
|  Servo saver or not How many run savers and how many dont. Seems like every other person you hear from, either do or dont. Personally I dont, I run 645s and have had no problems at all. |
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08-12-2004, 09:52 AM
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| PapaGriz Yo   Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Planning
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| Re: Servo saver or not I dont run em either. I just stripped the gears on my first 5645MG last weekend, I think the LST's had sumpin to do with it. I had the servo in there for about 4 months. |
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08-12-2004, 08:41 PM
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| TEAM MODERATOR  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chit Chat
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| Re: Servo saver or not I shouldn't reply, because if I do, and I mention that I don't use one, the servo is gonna crap out on me. |
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08-13-2004, 10:36 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Cincinnati Ohio
Posts: 1,681
| Re: Servo saver or not lol...I JB welded my servo saver....and stripped out the splines on the saver where it connects to the servo. Gotta get an aluminum one now. |
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08-13-2004, 01:19 PM
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| Colt Python/SR9c  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: out in the shop, reloading ammo!
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| Re: Servo saver or not Quote:
 i run them on mine and i don't like them..but on my other one, i dont run them | |
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08-13-2004, 01:35 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The other Crawler State
Posts: 1,254
| Re: Servo saver or not I don't like them for crawlers, good for high speed impacts but we don't go fast. Metal geared, ball bearing high torq servo. It works if you buy a quality servo. |
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08-13-2004, 01:45 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Elizabeth City
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08-15-2004, 07:15 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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| Re: Servo saver or not I run a saver on my truck... but i'd never know it was there cuz mine dosnt seem to work (factory fault or something) even if i try to move it by hand it does nothing. In the long run though i think it depends on where you run and how heavy your rig is, i'd run one on a heavy rig, but either way you're going to have to replace the servo eventually. |
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08-15-2004, 08:23 PM
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| 06 Super National Champ  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 10,268
| Re: Servo saver or not Gecko runs an Airtronics 359 and a Kimbrough 124 on each end. The truck I'm working on will use a single micro servo for both axles. That one won't use a servo saver.  |
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04-21-2006, 01:49 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: bikini bottom
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| What dose a servo saver do eny way? |
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04-21-2006, 06:56 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Flushing, MI
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I probably won't run any on the new truck. | |
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04-21-2006, 07:30 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New Milford
Posts: 349
| I don't run servo savers on my Hitec TG and MG servos. And while I don't plan to ever run servo savers, my trucks have taken some nasty tumbles from a few feet up where I could see a servo saver being beneficial. |
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04-21-2006, 07:50 AM
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| Get off my lawn!   Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cleveland, OH
Posts: 7,527
| Depends on how well your steering is designed, and how good a servo you're using. I've burned up a couple JR Sport ST125MG's within minutes by not using a saver, and having a crappy linkage in a heavy truck. On my TLT's I don't use a saver and haven't had a problem. |
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04-21-2006, 08:01 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sweden
Posts: 101
| I don't use those stinkin servo-savers. I use very strong servos instead, digital servos standard size and the huge size. Those digital servos have a very nice holdingpower.. and that is a plus when crawling, although they use more amps. For now i use Rhino digi4 on one truck and xxx-5998TG on the other one. They both work great, those rhino's are big but bullitproof. |
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04-21-2006, 11:07 AM
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| TCS/Holmes Hobbies  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Burnsville
Posts: 2,457
| This is a servo saver:  BTW, I don't use them. I lose too much steering ability to justify the protection. And I have never killed a servo in 1 1/2 years of crawling. |
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04-24-2006, 08:41 PM
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| Newbie  Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Fryeburg
Posts: 20
| Even though I've just jumped into crawling, I noticed that my moabs with cut foams were too much resistance for the servo savers and my steering sucked. I've removed them and can now steer (using hitec 645 and jr 590m). |
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04-25-2006, 01:26 AM
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| The Wheels Keep Turning   Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Posts: 2,799
| Have always run servo savers and swear by them. The majority of people I have seen that don't run servo savers eventually strip servo gears. I've never stripped a set of servo gears. |
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04-25-2006, 06:49 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: SERCRC
Posts: 1,683
| I've never used servo savers on my comp rigs. You lose too much steering control. Run them if you don't want to replace servos and gears. I've killed two Hitec 645's and stripped 10 sets of gears.  At the Portland, IN UROC event last year my rig took some nasty tumbles down the man-made mountains of concrete.... stripped 4 gears, in one weekend!  |
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05-14-2006, 06:06 AM
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| Tziworld.com.au  Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Australia
Posts: 158
| I just snapped the mounting tabs off a towerpro metal gear servo (MG995), and cracked the top casing because i didnt have a servo saver, and drove my crawler into the ground from a 1ft drop. probably thinking a servo saver could be beneficial... but a REALLY stiff one. Last edited by Tzi; 05-14-2006 at 06:08 AM. Reason: .. cos i can |
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05-14-2006, 08:10 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Australia
Posts: 274
| I run the AE servo savers on my 645s and have no probs with stripping gears or turning my cut Moabs |
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