500 Bolts for you tail blade grips

[Lee]

I have had some issues in the past with bolts shearing in the tail blade grips. For this reason i bought some 12.9 High Tensile steel bolts as these are supposedly the strongest on the market.
3 flights since i replaced them and one sheared off in mid flight!!! There is no noticeable bad vibration. The old rusty bolts where working fine.
What do you guys use in the tail other than the originals?

 

[RCD]

The originals always work for me! =)

 

[Tony]

I never have to replace any bolts. Try not to tighten them down too much. That puts stress on them.

 

[Lee]

They weren't tight. i just screwed them gently in until the bearing started to bind then backed it off and let the loctite do its job.
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[Lee]

On a happy note. This all happened at about 20ft. Flicked TH and brought it down soft as. So only the tail grip and drive gear to replace. And No Torque gears damaged for those of you with that problem. I stripped every tooth from the main auto rotation drive gear and none of the small ones??

 

[Tony]

That is a little weird that you would strip the auto gear, and not the bevel gears.

 

[L PLATER]

Lee I swapped all of my screws over to these RCScrewZ & Hobbies and have not had any probs.

Cheers