No more stripped tail gears!

[stokke]

Twice I have stripped my tail gears. Once from crashing into a sign post, and once recently by smacking the tail into the landing pad. Another typical reason these gears give out, is due to hard landings where the tail bends to much.

Well, worry no more - Align has some new type of gears in the making.
Check out these crazy new gears!!

LOL

 

[breeze400]

Looks like it should do the trick! How much?

 

[stokke]

Looks like it should do the trick! How much?

That's my question as well. Guess we won't know before they put out on the market...
I'd buy it if it comes under 35 bucks maybe for the entire tail (450 size).

 

[zenmetsu]

Perfect for my style of flying, lol.

I wonder if they will make these for the 250.

 

[coolgabsi]

those tests are awesome.. but painful to watch! lol

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question is that are they aluminum ? carbon steel? or a harder plastic?

 

[Whirlybird]

Wow! Never realized we have a combination table saw and concrete saw right in our heli's

Sombody has finally got it right

My Helicopters in the 70's had brass gears . . . never stripped them!

 

[stokke]

It looked like some sort of carbon fiber?

 

[callsign4223]

I was thinking plastic, but I can't for the life of me figure out how they aren't stripping.

 

[murankar]

Thats crazy to watch. those blades were toast at the end. glad it's them doing and not me, I would be broke after that test.

 

[stokke]

If you watch the very end of the clip, the parts are lay'd out on a carbon background. There's also a illustration of some chunk of material to the left, which probably is supposed to illustrate the material used.

 

[Tony]

It's more than likely the same stuff that is in the DS520 gears. It's a carbon based something or other. Very strong and very light. If these come out and work, the white ones will go away.