Is the plastic center hub breaking still an issue?

[L0stS0ul]

A buddy of mine convinced me I should buy a new MX-400 (just the standard $90 kit) to replace my old 400 size helicopter and I could not beat the price. It's a brand new kit coming in on tuesday from Tower Hobbies. Over the past few days I've been reading and I guess around march of last year there were lots of reports of the center hub failing but they seem to have dropped off.

My question is: Has the center hub been fixed now or is this still an issue. Should I be immediatly going out and upgrading the center hub to the cnc version?

Thanks

[Gizmo6035]

I have seen no reports of the plastic hub being improved.
I upgraded to the aluminum hub after 4 plastic units broke, 1 defective and 3 operator induced failures. I have had several crashes with the aluminum hub and it has not bent or broken

[L0stS0ul]

I guess it's probably safest to just upgrade it right away then. My buddy has well over 30 flights on his heli with the stock plastic hub but I don't think I'm willing to chance that.

[L0stS0ul]

Here's something interesing. I actually emailed the tech support address for the MX-400 about the hub issue. They acknowldeged that early on there was a problem with the hubs but that the issue has long since been resolved.


Hello, Thanks for your email.

Some of the original rotor heads were bad but the problems have been
resolved. If you do have any problems please contact us and we will be
glad to help in any way we can.

Should you have any further questions or concerns, please do not
hesitate to contact us at this email address. (Please be sure to copy
all previous emails into any future questions.) You can also reach our
product support technical team at 217-398-8970, or via fax at
217-398-7721.


I was shocked to get an email that was legible and actually answered my question. :) Still not planning on risking it though :glasses2: