Hitec And Tamiya

[geoffg]

I've just bought a couple of hitec servos to put in a hilux but there is no option on the servo-saver tree for hitec servos and the splines are no-where near the availiable options.

I also have a couple of hitec radios ( not to mention several new tamiya savers) waiting to go in Tamiya cars but the output shafts are a different size - they dont fit the savers.

Anybody got any ideas?

[terry.sc]

Get some Kimbrough servo savers. It's the first thing I do with any Tamiya cars is throw away the junk servo saver that comes in the kit and get something decent anyway. Try a proper servo saver and you'll be amazed at the difference in precision.

There are various historical reasons for it, but no Tamiya comes with an adaptor to fit Hitec servos.

[secretsg]

I second the KP savers. The ofna metal top ones are very good choices as well.

[Blacque Jacque]

OK, perhaps I'm just not looking in the right place, or just being particularly dim, but I can't find Kimbrough savers here in the UK.

So where do you get them ?

[Tipsy]

There are plenty of model shops showing them, when I do a search for kimbrough servo saver? Try Demon Power Products?

[terry.sc]

Okay, I'll rephrase that. Get a Kimbrough style servo saver. In the UK you can buy Kimbrough, Fastrax, Trickbits or Ofna ones.

A quick google throws up genuine Kimbrough ones at demonpowerproducts.co.uk, www.modelsinmotion.co.uk, www.dd-modelsport.com and www.eamodels.co.uk. Alternatively many places will stock Fastrax and Trickbits versions.

[Robert Davies]

Interesting point arises here....

You can't therefore use a Hitec servo in the 'stock' class of the Tamiya Cup (ex EuroCup)

Yet more tangential thoughts later...

-Rob

[geoffg]

Managed to find kimbrough at a relatively local (but notorious) shop.

Thanks all

[billg4]

I have often wished that they'd get together and standardize the output shaft so that we wouldn't have to goof around looking for proper fittings.

oh yeah

for hitec the ofna saver seems better to me than the kimbrough style

I use kimbrough style on all my other servos

for some reason I''ve bot had much luck with the kimbrough hitec but the ofna has not failed=stripped

yet on futaba the kimbroughs work fine and never strip

[TAZ-NZ]

Interesting point arises here....

You can't therefore use a Hitec servo in the 'stock' class of the Tamiya Cup (ex EuroCup)

Yet more tangential thoughts later...

-Rob

Not sure how strict those rules are, but there is a option available if it must be a tamiya part.

Tamiya part number: 50204 "RC Servo Saver Set - SP1024"

Part 9 on this tree fits Hitec servos.

I'm guessing it would pass as stock, or be so close they wouldn't care.

[4wdmt]

I have often wished that they'd get together and standardize the output shaft so that we wouldn't have to goof around looking for proper fittings.

+1. It will make running our RC gears alot easier.

[Mouton]

Hitec is Korean and Tamiya caters mainly to Japanese radio manufacturers. The Traxxas Stampede servo saver is easy to find and also Kimbrough styled.