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Parts damaged in action (or otherwise)

 

Another Schulze 32.80 controller up in smoke after just a few runs on the brand new unit.  I hope all this practice is making their FET replacement technique more efficient.

Today's action yielded a very messed up rear end along with a few other parts:

Rear shock tower terribly bent, all 4 rear shock shafts bent, all 4 body mount posts damaged, bent front right lower A-arm, bent front titanium skid plate, and a nicely eaten (flat) spur gear.  All in a day's work.

Fried Schulze 32.80F at the moment of plugging it in to 9 cells.  Took about 5 months to get it repaired from Germany and guessing the entire time, what the status was.  Hmmm....

Hacker B50 7L brushless high-end motor, an inside view.  Made possible by a radio glitch causing the truck a nice direct impact with a solid curb at full throttle.  No damage to motor... just popped it back together and voila!

All fixed up with slow-acting CA glue around the rim, drilled and threaded screw holes and a donation of high-quality screws from a computer motherboard mount.

Picture of trashed stock diff spider gear cup from Aveox RC7 power. All 4 screws holding this to the ring gear were broken.  Also teeth on gears were worn.  Diffs were replaced by a new pair of Unlimited Engineering SuperMaxx differentials.  Very expensive, but I don't think I'll have to mess with broken diffs again.

Picture of spun wheel hub from Aveox RC7 power.  The good news... Maximizer quickly replaced my damaged wheels with practically indestructible black ones.