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My rear tab broke
One half of my rear tab snapped off. The one where the heat sink lock goes into. How do you fix it?
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Get a new chassis.
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Thats a relly good suggestion (sarcasm) That happened to me too. If you can't clip the motor down then just tape the heat sink
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Use scotch tape to tape down the heat sink,
BUT make sure you trim it down or else the body won't sit on the chassis correctly. Good Luck |
CA Glue will fix it. Its like super glue bet a bit thicker and not as brittle.
My current bit I actually cut off the front and rear tabs and re-glued them back on lower down with CA glue. Allow to dry and tidy up with a file and its has strong as before. My first bit I lowered the body by cutting slots in a different place and trying to repair the old slots and paint it. It looked poo, because I am no good at painting and body repairs. |
What does CA glue stand for. I used some epoxy and its kind of gooey. It holds pretty well, but not as strong. You can see the tab bend a little bit when the heat sink is on.
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I can't remember its a long chemical name.
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After looking on google:
Cyanoacrilate (super glue, AKA CA) Apparently its used more in 1/10th RC for sticking tyres to rims. |
If it is stronger than super glue, where can you get it?
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your LHS or if your lucky like me and live about 2 blocks from a r/c race track g up there and ask some one if you can use theres
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While doing some of my customs , I found it necessary to remove
that tab . I then glued the motor in place . It works fine , but I suggest you glue a motor that you don't plan to remove again. |
Go
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if u mail me a SESA ill put a clone chassis in it.. what freq do you use? i may even be able to put the pcb and steering coil sin there assumign you have a freq that i have.
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It's a 49mhz MicroSizer. I emailed Hobbico, hopefully they will answer.
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Quest for Madness sells bare chassis for $5, you might have to pick up a matching controller too, which is also $5. I am suffering from the same problem. I am tired of regluing the tab. I spend more time gluing than running it seems.
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