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- From: brads@natinst.com (Brad Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Misc R/C Car Questions
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 00:20:17 -0600
- Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
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- In article <1jndudINNi9a@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> slezal@gyro.ECE.ORST.EDU (Lee Slezak) writes:
- >Lastly I was wondering if anyone else out there is still using the
- >old RC10 gearbox (prior to the stealth).. I use it, simply for
- >to avoid purchasing a stealth.. But if anyone else still uses it
- >do you have any tips?
-
- My RC10 has the old gearbox and I raced it until last October
- when I bought a TRX-1. The RC10 was my first car. I got it
- last May and started racing in August. Sometime near the beginning
- of September I replaced all the bushings with ball bearings.
- In the two months before I started racing the TRX-1 I had two
- ball bearings in that old gearbox fail. One seized and melted
- the bearing adaptor. Another was on an idler gear and fell apart,
- scattering it's tiny balls all through the gearbox. I had to
- replace the idler gears but all the metal gears were still sound
- once I picked the balls out of the teeth. These were Trinity
- bearings and I had done nothing to lubricate them.
- I've gotten different opinions on whether or not ball bearings
- should be lubricated.
-
- Brad (brads@natinst.com)
-