{"id":6603,"date":"2025-03-10T10:09:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:09:36","slug":"tamiya-ta02-pinion-alignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=6603","title":{"rendered":"Tamiya TA02 pinion alignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see from the photo, the TA02 pinion positioning along the motor shaft is kinda guesswork. If it is too much to the outside it will scratch the gear cover. If it is too much to the side of the motor, the pinion will be subject to uneven wear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-10-at-09.30.25.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6605\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-10-at-09.30.25.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-10-at-09.30.25.jpeg 720w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-10-at-09.30.25-169x300.jpeg 169w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-10-at-09.30.25-576x1024.jpeg 576w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-10-at-09.30.25-84x150.jpeg 84w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-10-at-09.31.33.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6606\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-10-at-09.31.33.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-10-at-09.31.33.jpeg 720w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-10-at-09.31.33-169x300.jpeg 169w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-10-at-09.31.33-576x1024.jpeg 576w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-10-at-09.31.33-84x150.jpeg 84w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pdagawe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6607\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pdagawe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pdagawe.png 311w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pdagawe-234x300.png 234w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pdagawe-117x150.png 117w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the ideal position:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ideal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6608\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ideal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ideal.png 668w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ideal-296x300.png 296w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ideal-148x150.png 148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see from the photo, the TA02 pinion positioning along the motor shaft is kinda guesswork. If it is too much to the outside it will scratch the gear cover. If it is too much to the side of the motor, the pinion will be subject to uneven wear. This is the ideal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603"}],"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=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6609,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions\/6609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}