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Originally Posted by mike d1
Oh for sure if I was to buy something different I would go belted all the way. IMO the torque tube, like DFC, was bad hype, there just is no upside over a belt that I can see.
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The belt drive still uses the very same tail drive auto and transfer gears as the TT set up, and it's the transfer gear that often fails. Plus the belt drive gears are, as far as I know, only available in M0.6 material rather than the stronger M0.8 that the TT gears come in. So not safe to assume that putting a belt on will improve anything, it could make it worse!
Designs like Compass do away with the complexity of transfer gears and shafts altogether and simply run the belt off a pulley directly mounted to the main shaft.
Anyway, I've got a dozen flights or more on mine since stripping the gears on mine and it seems to be ok now, at least at the level I fly at.