The 5125 is advertised as having the "unbreakable MP gear train". When I did an autopsy on my 5125, that specific gear was in tact. The one next to it, however, was stripped, and it was metal.
This happened with a number of other pilots in our club. Our conclusion was that there had to be a poor quality metal for the batch of servos we received. I have heard folks say that they have had good runs with this servo and I'm sure it is true. Maybe their was a time period in which a lower grade metal was used? None of them had motor problems; all had stripped gears. We were not landing them hard, but maybe the "holding power" works against them in a solid installation. The gear train was the first to give. JE -- Erickson Architects John R. Erickson, AIA > From: Simon Van Leeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Radius Systems > Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:37:15 -0800 > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: soaring@airage.com > Subject: Re: [RCSE] What are you doing to kill 5125/168 servos? > > The current quality of servos available to us from all marques continue > to improve. Singling out a marque and calling it crap as someone stated > just leads to a silly pissing contest and clouds the issue. It's easier > to install a fatter servo like the 368, as there is less chance of a > problem precisely as a result of it being beefier. Let's not confuse the > issue by diminishing the abilities of the thinner servo. Again...it is > not the servos fault! > > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
