WHITE-TRASH
I wanna be Dave
Kronik tubes are $35 a pair shipped to my door. Just sayin' :lol:
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Cost/vs Weight, VP/vs Dlux+ beef tubes?
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Yeah, its a tough sale on the truss when you have one of those super tall servos.
I have never understood the opposition to scratching a part on a crawler. It all gets scratched. I do understand not wanting to get hung up or breaking but I think in the case of the servo (and I dont understand scratching motors on MOA's) its not going to hurt it and really, if you wear through it or want it pretty again, a 7950 case is just $7 or so.
The worst part about AL housings is that they dont slide nearly as well as plastic.
gottorque
RCC Addict
If you do any crawling at all with your bomber.... Plastic and tubes.
If you are big power, brushless and generally rock race/abuse/bash like I do with my bomber....aluminum axles.
But yeah all of my crawlers run plastic.
If you are big power, brushless and generally rock race/abuse/bash like I do with my bomber....aluminum axles.
But yeah all of my crawlers run plastic.
WHITE-TRASH
I wanna be Dave
2 of my rigs run very tall servos with your sporty trusses. Using a standard style servo mount rather than the straight mounts you provide makes them sit flush with the bottom of the housing perfectly. I run a lower profile servo on a 3rd rig with a U4 truss with the provided straight servo mounts and it clearest the housing by a few millimeters.
Just gotta adjust to what you have. :mrgreen:
My pair took 2 weeks to show up though, so I think you have to plan ahead with those. Took my friend 2 weeks as well from Atees shipping.
WHITE-TRASH
I wanna be Dave
2 weeks here too. Meh, I'm old enough that I don't cry for not getting instant gratification. Things used to take a month to get across the country, oh the horror! :lol:
tallyforeman
Newbie
Hey man, Amazon Prime and RPP have shown me the light, I ain't going back now. That's like asking me to go back to a 56k dial-up connection.
WHITE-TRASH
I wanna be Dave
I like fast shipping as much as the next guy but at half price I'll buy a couple extra sets to have on hand.
That was actually the tipping point for me too, half price is enough to have me wait for that much longer.
I'm pretty sure the Boom and Xtra Speed tubes are the exact same.
You bought stainless steel and they sent you stainless steel. They don't make them in aluminum unless it's some brand new, hard to find release.
2 weeks from Asia isn't bad. Think about that. I've had "free" shipping packages from Amazon and AMain take equally as long and that's with products originating in the US!
I'm don't buy into Amazon's Prime scam. I find things cheaper things on eBay with free shipping and I don't have to pay to be a member of some odd club. I'll wait the extra day or 2 to receive my packages and save the $100 membership fee. Then there's the technicality that Prime doesn't mean you'll get it 2 days after they ship it. I experienced that with the free Prime trial and lots of other people are complaining about this lately. As an example I went to order filament for my 3D printer today. Amazon was $10 more expensive than eBay for the same filament. Amazon offered free shipping with Prime. eBay gave free shipping.
tallyforeman
Newbie
Yea. As you were posting this, I went back and checked. I'll take my lashings now haha.
If I can unload these ar60's and find some mad force axles, that would be pretty sporty.
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I really haven't run into those problems and this is with 175 orders in 2016 alone. I think it's only worth it depending on what kind of ordering volume we're talking about, person to person.
I also do order from Asia quite a bit. I've had orders from Japan show up after a month and I've had orders from Hong Kong post only take a week. I'd still prefer <=1 week when possible but $30 for tubes is good enough for me to wait an extra week.
I just got my axles from AsiaTees in the mail today - designed to slip through tubes without modification. I'm not sure how strong they'll be... only $9 and change, plus a lot of shipping that made them not very cheap afterwards!
BTW - the Kronik SS tubes are currently on sale for $14.50 per axle.
Also - I sure as heck don't renew my Prime account for the prices of items. I renew because I watch Prime video, listen to Prime music, read Kindle books (on a non-Kindle device, LOL) and my family members all get the free shipping benefit - we create Xmas lists and share them so that no-one buys the same gift twice, etc. I also got a Prime card the other day (the one you can only use on Amazon) and got $40 off on my first purchase - financed $200 over 6 months with no finance charge. Been with them for ages. It's very convenient, and there are other ways to save money, I'm sure - but they sure do simplify things!
I price check most everything I purchase and get it elsewhere if it's more than $1-$2 bucks savings on small items, larger items my threshold is about $5.
BTW - the Kronik SS tubes are currently on sale for $14.50 per axle.
Also - I sure as heck don't renew my Prime account for the prices of items. I renew because I watch Prime video, listen to Prime music, read Kindle books (on a non-Kindle device, LOL) and my family members all get the free shipping benefit - we create Xmas lists and share them so that no-one buys the same gift twice, etc. I also got a Prime card the other day (the one you can only use on Amazon) and got $40 off on my first purchase - financed $200 over 6 months with no finance charge. Been with them for ages. It's very convenient, and there are other ways to save money, I'm sure - but they sure do simplify things!
I price check most everything I purchase and get it elsewhere if it's more than $1-$2 bucks savings on small items, larger items my threshold is about $5.
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