Starter wand made of cheesium :(

[Rctintin]

Although you should not have to do this, you can just harden it yourself. Buy some 'casenit' powder and heat the ball end up till cherry red, and plunge it into the powder. You now have a case hardened ball on your shaft

I will check tomorrow if I still have my casenit, and if so, I'm only too happy to do anyones wands for them for the price of the return postage.

I used to do this to the crown wheels and pinion gears on my 1/8 off road RC cars in the 80's and 90's when the Italians and French cars were made of 'Align' steel!!

[Mart61]

It's a shame this has happened. Another nail in the coffin of the Align starter perhaps?

[mark_w]

I have just ordered one of these starters

[mark lane]

No i'm standing firm.... its a great starter and works faultlessly for me every session, ive charged it twice since september and i have only been flying my 90 since then.

Best bit of kit bought in 2009 in many ways

The hex seems to be a bit soft and Martins rounded off badly.... a warranty claim for sure but for me its taken loads of grief out of flying nitros.

[jamiem]

A club mate bought one the other day, i tried it last weekend on my N9 with its reasonably new YS (maybe 2 gallons through it), and it tried ripping my hand off. It did eventually start it, but it was genuinely painful getting it to start. Ill stick with my dynatron and £20 wand that has so far lasted me 2 years faultlessly!

[LipolyGone]

I might send just the wand back to fast lads & try to get it replaced
then get rid of it & buy myself the best starter on the market ie the dynatron.
It seems with the Align one that your either lucky or very unlucky
& to be honest a 50 50 chance of having a good unit just
isnt acceptable in this day & age.
I will continue to promote their helicopters just not their starters.

[jamiem]

I'm sure they will release a v2 that will work much better, and then I might consider it, as i do like to size and weight of it, just not sure this one will be durable in the long term starting 90's every time it's used.