{"id":5359,"date":"2024-05-05T15:27:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T15:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2024-05-11T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T11:44:43","slug":"significant-weakness-of-the-manta-ray-drive-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=5359","title":{"rendered":"Significant weakness of the Manta Ray drive train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As can be seen from this photo, when the gear box cover cracks (which can happen quite easily), loose gears will result and will eventually lead to gear striping. Unfortunately, without a metal replacement this problem seems to be difficult to solve.<\/p>\n<p>A temporary fix is to use super glue to a kind of glue back the pieces, then use a soldering iron to melt the plastic evenly.<a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG20240511114835-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG20240511114835-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG20240511114835-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG20240511114835-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG20240511114835-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG20240511114835-768x576.jpg 768w, 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Unfortunately, without a metal replacement this problem seems to be difficult to solve. A temporary fix is to use super glue to a kind of glue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359"}],"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=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5376,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions\/5376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}