Bad news for future MM users.

[Happywing]

Originally Posted by NovakTwo

You probably shouldn't bring up "passion" for the R/C industry. Bob got involved in R/C planes when he was a young boy and spent his entire working career in the industry. Novak has been around for 30 years, so the company has had years of involvement in the industry. We even know all of the people who have sold their companies---Losi, Associated, Orion/Peak.

But, I think what you mean by passion is, why doesn't Novak make some of the cool products that posters here want. Making a few, hand made products to be sold to a select group of customers is easy. Manufacturing the products to be sold to thousands of users at prices buyers are willing to pay is another matter.

For every product a manufacturer replaces, or gives away, free, the company must sell 5-8 new items to recover the parts/labor/overhead costs of that free item.

Bob, Adnan Khan (Novak's Senior Designer), and the entire tech staff are definitely well-informed about comments on various forums---both the complimentary ones and the not-so-flattering. So keep the ideas and comments flowing.

Why is a 5mm shaft on a HV-Maxx rotor such a big deal? Couldn't you just use a bigger bearing and machine the rotor to 5mm? Why not a 5mm shaft conversion kit for the existing HV motors? I've run the HV-Maxx 6.5 in my E-Revo and my 1/8 buggy with success. A lot of others have too. The 1/8 shaft is the big weakness and the main reason I changed systems.