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Old 01-02-2008
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Originally Posted by bigred5765 View Post
servo savers are for girls
gears cost less than a servo saver
and give you a good excuse for not doing well
That's the dumbest thing I've heard this week, maybe this month.

First off, the gear set for my servo costs 17 dollars. The Tamiya saver is 9. Congrats on being right on that one.

Second, The servo saver will save the servo countless times, but each time a gear breaks, it's going to cost me 17 dollars, so 17, then 34, then 51, then 68, then 85 by which time it's the cost of a whole new servo, while I could have spent 9 on a saver.

Third, given a choice between crashing in turn one and breaking my servo and being out of the race with no chance of finishing, or using a saver and finishing the race, I'm going to choose to finish. Wanna race? 10-1 says you break and I finish ahead of you. That is, unless you're racing stock or something and don't go fast enough to break, but I'm running a 5.5r and my car scoots.

Fourth, the whole point of this thread, in case you couldn't tell, is to find a servo saver that doesn't lower the performance of the car. For a servo saver to work in a 4wd buggy, it just has to be stronger/stiffer than a cheap kimbrough one. A stronger/stiffer servo saver will not lower performance and will not be an excuse for not doing well

These are all very simple concepts, and I hope you enjoyed this discussion as much as I did.

If servo savers are for girls, it's only because they're smarter than you and want to finish the race.

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