Dest210 spur/gearing?
 

Evening all

Being the proud owner of a dest210 rtr ( thanks Santa ) I did the usual and took it out for a bit of street racing on Boxing Day, great fun but on inspection when finished it would seem that something had caused the kit spur to seemingly fall apart/melt, opening the gear cover most if the disintegrated spur fell out as dust and what remained was chomped to bits.

Anyone else have issues with their rtr spur? Had a few shunts so motor may have jump out of position I guess but seemed ok when checked!

Also while I've got it apart and ordering some new spurs etc, what sort of gearing are people using?

Any help greatly appreciated :thumbsup:

I think the RTR spur is the same as of the 210 kits. Anyway, it shouldn't happen. My guess is one of the following things happened:
- The spur gear stripped because the slipper was too tight out of the box (happened to me on a RTR Kyosho once: the slipper was completely tightened and the gear stripped after a few small jumps).
- The spur gear melted because the slipper was too loose (and the slipper system became too hot).
- The spur gear stripped because of a bad(ish) mesh (out of the box...?)

Thanks,

Yeah sounds about right, I checked the mesh before I ran it and it was fine but to be honest I didn't think twice about slipper so probably that's the culprit!:mad: