{"id":1782,"date":"2020-03-26T01:26:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T01:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2020-07-16T03:43:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T03:43:35","slug":"servo-saver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"Servo saver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The whole point of using a servo saver is to protect the servo from gear breakage during a crash. The C shape plastic of the saver takes the hit and gets cracked.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that if it is too soft, the servo may have a hard time centering back after a steer. Pro racer also finds that a servo saver can actually slow down steering.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, 3d print this C shape part (a.k.a C ring) with 100% fill can alleviate the centering problem. Just that you must sand it so to make its surface as smooth as possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/servosave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1786\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/servosave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/servosave.jpg 833w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/servosave-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/servosave-768x458.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want an off the shelf servo saver kit, http:\/\/kimbroughracingproducts.com seems to have a lot to offer.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not have a 3D printer, a zip tie around the C ring may do the trick as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200330_213205-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1804\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200330_213205-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200330_213205-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200330_213205-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200330_213205-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200330_213205-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200330_213205-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole point of using a servo saver is to protect the servo from gear breakage during a crash. The C shape plastic of the saver takes the hit and gets cracked. The problem is that if it is too soft, the servo may have a hard time centering back after a steer. Pro racer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,132,85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}