HS-65MG Servos

[sacko]

I have been reading about these servos and they seem to be a very good upgrade. The only thing I am concerned about, is what happens to them in a crash?

With plastic gears, the teeth break and they are £3 to replace. With metal gears, are they indesctructable, or do they break everythin else apart from the metal gears?

[jiberjaber]

Usualy something else, there has to be some week points in the chain to allow the eneergy of teh crash to be disapaited. So it could be more of a bend in teh main shaft, more broken bearings or something else instead.

[sacko]

Is there anything in the servo, other than the gears left to break? As tbh I would rather replace a £4 main shaft than the £20 servo

Cheers

[maderdog_1024]

i use the inolab servos which are metal geared and i believe similar to the hitec possibly better.

i have had huge crashes, hit the ground inverted, 50ft drop on to concrete, nose first into the ground at high speed.......

The servos have never broken.

[SRH990]

I've got a set of 3 65mg's which started life in a 450SE and many crashes later got swapped over to a Beam E4. Since then they've had at least another 4 crashes and they are still in good working order, gears fine and no repairs. It has to bee quite an extraordinary crash to damage a 65mg.

[chugga-bug]

This is the result of the only time I've managed to break any 65mg's..





Even then I think the gears survived!

[Si Goodchild]

Good effort, chugga: makes today's pile-in from me look like a weak effort (more on that later!)

Si

[sacko]

Just bought some from Elite models. May fit them tonight, if the other half doesn't keep trying to drag me somewhere