Lunchbox servo savers

[Hypoxic 818]

I watch videos of the Lunchbox taking flight, rolling, flipping, smashing into things. I slightly clip a power pole and bust a servo saver. What gives?

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[Guest]

I broke 3 bashing mine in the garden, then broke the servo mount on the chassis a few days later. I got an aluminium servo horn from ebay and then installed the UK monsters alloy servo mount brace. It's a lot tougher now with those two relatively cheap modifications. 

[MadAnt 887]

Just have to find a good aftermarket heavy duty servo saver, there should be plenty to choose from.

[Hypoxic 818]

I’ve been running the Tamiya 51000. 

[Twinfan 2468]

I broke a 51000 that I'd originally fitted on my basher Lunch Box (I fit them to almost everything) so decided to use all the spare standard servo savers I haven't used from other kits instead to use them up.

Haven't broken any yet, the original standard saver has been fine!

[Hypoxic 818]

I need to put some bumpers on that power pole. I believe that’s how I broke the last one as well. 
 

edit: After changing out the servo saver I was making sure the horn was center and realised that the throw was pretty extreme, enough to cause a lot of binding. I played with the servo endpoints until the control arms just almost touch the A-arms. Maybe taking out all of that stress like that will help my cause.

[dannymulder 1126]

 I run and bash my lunchbox very hard with an castle 5700 kv motor in it , I never broke any servo saver, to be honest I never broke any servo saver on  my cars.

Maybe what you said, you had your end points not adjusted, maybe that is wat breaks the servo savers.s

[markbt73 6272]

One word: Kimbrough.

Accept no substitutes.

[guggles 367]

1 hour ago, markbt73 said:

One word: Kimbrough.

Accept no substitutes.

+1 Kimbrough 124

or maybe the lunchie needs the smaller version? Not sure maybe other Tamiya heads can chirp in. You can always get the large servo saver and trim it down to fit. Also assuming you are using a metal gear servo, because the heavy duty servo saver will strip plastic servo gears. 

[MadAnt 887]

47 minutes ago, guggles said:

You can always get the large servo saver and trim it down to fit. Also assuming you are using a metal gear servo, because the heavy duty servo saver will strip plastic servo gears. 

Yup! Definitely a good idea to use a metal gear servo with anything that uses oversized tires.

[Hypoxic 818]

Yep, using a metal gear servo.

[Kowalski86 5013]

Either a Tamiya High Torque servo saver or a Kimbrough would be a good upgrade. I learned from my experience with a Stampede, that RCs with big wheels and no bellcrank put a lot of stress on servo savers.