I havn't had the time to mess with my H8 in so long I forgot I had the Futaba Digital servo sitting around waiting to be installed.
So today my girlfriend, I mean fiancee, damn. I mean my wife is off doing wifely things and I had a couple hours to play with. I tried to file a better flat spot onto my Aon shaft (Please god tell me they made a replacement arm w/ the flat spot. It would be worth buying a new motor if they have!) I left the poly's 1/2 charged (2100mah 3cell) so it had enough juice for some running.
I installed the pinion and had a blast. I forgot just how impressive this thing is on loose dirt.
I got the motor up to 160F, ESC to 125F, and the batteries a little warm (maybe 90F) in 90-95F air temp. About 15 minutes of runtime before the damned set screw came loose on the shaft again! I'm pretty sure that's what happened unless I messed up the mesh (did it with the dust cover on, so possibly I just ate the slipper). It sounded more like metal on metal than a slipper dead. I've been using the pinions with the tiny setscrews that use a special (.9mm?) wrench that you can't find anywhere. I wish oh I wish I could get the pinion to stay. Perhaps I need stronger loctite since I doubt I will change the pinion.
Anyway, I just wanted to drop a note that I'm enjoying my H8 and alive and what have you. I'm glad to see there are some new goodies out. I can't wait for some MIP BB Diffs and CVDs. That should definately step it up a notch. And now that I'm running 2.4ghz, I need to put in those 2 metal slipper gears.
There I go on yet another wild tangent...
-JNY
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