newbie question

[TaylorM]

hey im new to this forum and to rc helis........i was flying last week when i crashed my blade 400...after finally getting the replacement parts that i needed i went to test it out......it turns out that the gears in one of my servos (the back right cyclic/collective servo) is missing teeth and now it doesnt work properly.....my question is.........is there a way to fix the gear or do i need a whole new servo or even an entire set of servos? If i need to buy a new one, which brand and model of servo do you suggest i get.....id prefer to buy something of decent quality..


cheers,

TM

[jmizoguchi]

some servo you can buy parts and fix it but some you nee to buy new one .. check with servo manufacture

[zaw]

Some time when the servo break you can replace the gears and work again, some time they don't, if you're or ordering some replacement gears then buy a servo with it just in case.

On my friend 400 every servo he break I was only be able to fix one of them. I had no luck fixing any of the digital ones. That's the expense of crashing the blade 400 it kills servos.

[carlo_the_wonder_frog]

For future crashes, if you upgrade all 3 cyclic servos to Hitec HS65MG then you will probably never have to replace another servo for a long long time. They have metal gears and are very robust, almost crash proof. You can get new servo gears for the E-Flite servos, but 1 time of replacing gear sets and you will see the wisdom of a hard to break servo.