Talk 1520 - your experiences

[nuz69]

As the spur use itself with time, I thought that I had to move the pinion closer to the spur, but with this method I used my pinions pretty quickly... So now I decide to stick with the original shimming when the spur was new, and it seems to work, my pinions and spur dont use themselves anymore. At least for the moment...
I run with the mesh you see in the photo

[ANGRY-ALIEN]

hmmm.... just curious... how did you determine the distance between the spur and pinion?

[nuz69]

I have some plastic piece between motor and chassis reinforcement, which keep the motor to move latteraly, and it give me information on the shimming too.
And I can feel it with the play between pinion and spur when I move the spur up and down.

[ANGRY-ALIEN]

zeen... I get a little confused myself when meshing metal gears... with plastic spurs and metal pinions i used the 'Paper Method'... running a sheet of paper
between the gears to achieve a relatively good mesh... But I'm sure if that method can be used with metal gears...

[nuz69]

Some people do that with metal ;)
But I prefer the hearing method, I hear carefully the noise that my mesh is doing to adjust precisely the shimming. I use my eyes too, with habit you can see a proper or bad mesh, and the noise confirm it !

[Kcaz25]

I make sure I can feel alittle bit of play, rocking the spur back and forth I can hear, feel, and see the perfect mesh. Its just a small amount of click/clack. The paper method got me prepaired for this.

[ANGRY-ALIEN]

Cool... I use the by ear method also ... I am really interested in those Novak pinions though... maybe I'll give them a try soon.

[Jahay]

i have never seen wear like that! Your pinion is handling it very well!!!! Thats usually how my pinion looks as my spur is still fresh! Got to try novak next!

[nuz69]

Lool no no no, the pinion is brand new, the spur has already seens a lot of 80 batteries of 6S 4000mAh and a lot of nitro liters :D, I bought the truggy used !

[Jahay]

woah thats one long lasting spur!

[ANGRY-ALIEN]

Originally Posted by nuz69

Lool no no no, the pinion is brand new, the spur has already seens a lot of 80 batteries of 6S 4000mAh and a lot of nitro liters :D, I bought the truggy used !

So are you saying that the Novaks may not be stronger than previous brands?

[nuz69]

No because when I said it's new, I said it have a few batteries, some other brands pinions were very used only after one or two batteries, that's why novak seems to be the strongest pinions for the moment.
Anyway I will post new pictures of the mesh in a few days, as I drive my truggy one or two hours a day, it will be revelative ;)

[ANGRY-ALIEN]

I see... well post your findings when you have them... I am tired of killing pinions now... i need to find a set that will hold up to the punishment the CC 1520 dishes out...

[nuz69]

Your spur is holding for now ?

[ANGRY-ALIEN]

Well the spur is fairly new... not many runs on it... no signs of wear yet. I have an older RCM 18 tooth pinion mounted now and it seems to be doing much better than the newer ones..