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A few days ago I landed my Sharon imperfectly, scraping the grass with the lowered flaps (yeah, I know). Flew again, and discovered that things were wacky, and traced this to a flap that moved freely on its own. Since I finally had the servo covers installed "for real" I couldn't just check things, but I figured that I had broken a gear in the MicroMaxx HP and called it a day.
Well, it now turns out that the Micromaxx is just fine, but that the carefully glued-in plywood holder came loose from the top wing skin. The 15-min epoxy over about one square inch of clean flat surface proved to be weaker than the gear! (the plywood was nicely glued everywhere). I can hardly believe this, those gears must be really strong. Since I'd heard that Volz gears supposedly never break, I figured that I was about to cause Gordy a lot of grief. But I guess he wins again.
--- Rense Lange
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