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Flyinhigh · 07-08-2007, 12:51 PM

I'm not going to say the phenolic arms can't be used succesfully, but I never gave them a chance. I went straight to metal servo arms, and I use ball-joints with great success and accuracy. Intuitively, those phenolic arms seemed to me like they would be the achilles heal of the linkage.

07-08-2007, 12:51 PM	#2
Flyinhigh Barking-Tip Bandit Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Austin, TEXAS Posts: 571	Re: Ball joints on comp-arf surfaces? I'm not going to say the phenolic arms can't be used succesfully, but I never gave them a chance. I went straight to metal servo arms, and I use ball-joints with great success and accuracy. Intuitively, those phenolic arms seemed to me like they would be the achilles heal of the linkage.