{"id":3849,"date":"2022-06-05T16:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T16:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2022-06-05T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T16:03:12","slug":"rcpress-techtip-why-ball-joints-are-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=3849","title":{"rendered":"RCPRESS techtip: why ball joints are better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good thing about ball joints in arms and linkages is that upon a crash it will take the impact and fall off &#8230; this way nothing will break. If it is a screw joint (which is most common in Tamiyas), something will have to break upon impact&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ball joints:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220605_234302.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3850\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220605_234302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1262\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220605_234302.jpg 1262w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220605_234302-300x165.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220605_234302-1024x562.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220605_234302-768x422.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220605_234302-1246x684.jpg 1246w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220605_234302-675x371.jpg 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220605_234302-480x264.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1262px) 100vw, 1262px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Screw joints:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220501_164420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3851\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220501_164420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"936\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220501_164420.jpg 936w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220501_164420-300x267.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220501_164420-768x683.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220501_164420-675x601.jpg 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_20220501_164420-480x427.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good thing about ball joints in arms and linkages is that upon a crash it will take the impact and fall off &#8230; this way nothing will break. If it is a screw joint (which is most common in Tamiyas), something will have to break upon impact&#8230; Ball joints: Screw joints:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-tip-arms-hubs-shaft-etc","category-free-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3852,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions\/3852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}