Metal Gears for the 3400G

[EBCooper]

Do they make a metal gear set for this servo? I haven't found one and am a little dissapointed I bought this servo. Every plastic is fantastic gear servo I bought has cooked a gear at some point. I should have researched it more, whats a better choice for a digital tail servo with metal gears?

[Coolice]

Hey,

To be honest I think plastic gears are the best for a tail servo, reason being metal ones do wear out quite quickly even more so on a control surface which is constantly moving like the tail.
In this instance the small cost it takes to replace plastic gears is probably easier to live with on the tail servo atleast, which in all honesty is not likely to strip in a crash unlike say a collective or cyclic servo.

It would be even better if they were Karbonite for instance.

Of course this is just my perspective.
I quite like the look and specs of this servo, I do fancy trying one at some stage.
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[EBCooper]

Its a good servo but I've never had a metal gear wear out. It striped when I crashed, the tail took it pretty hard so I guess something had to give.

[Coolice]

Hey,

Ah ok, you have crashed the model and stripped the gears already. Strange on the tail, but I suppose also most of these high end tail servos now are getting quite powerful and so resist movement in a crash and hence strip a gear.

Mind you, I'd sooned do that than wreak the servo if the metal ones do not give but the rest of the servo did :arggg:
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[EBCooper]

Yea, something has to give somewhere. It was a weird crash I was trying to land nose in on the concrete driveway, I was about a foot off the ground and it got away from me and I freaked out because it was getting close to me and put it down hard. Here's what broke

Main blades
Carbon Fiber tail boom
Belt
Tail box :bomb:
Tail servo stripped
Main shaft
Main gear
Flybar
Head block bent/twisted :bomb:

Lesson learned, don't try to learn how to land nose in with winds gusting from 10 to 20mph on the concrete driveway. :OK