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Permalink Reply by Bill Jowitt on January 15, 2012 at 1:28pm

I tried one of these and to be honest I thought it was an absolute rubbish design. The inside of my gears was smooth - how the h*ll were the servos supposed to drive them properly? It either did not mesh or was so tight when meshed properly that the servo could not move the rest of the mount. I have come to the conclusion that any mount where half of it is attached to a servo head is going to be too wobbly, even if it is properly designed. I have thrown mine away. Cheers, Bill

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Permalink Reply by Brian Boyle on January 16, 2012 at 4:51am

Bill.

I agree for the most part but I was hoping someone from 3DR could comment. or perhaps someone who has gotten one of these things to work well

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Permalink Reply by Doug on January 16, 2012 at 12:58pm

The unit have been out of stock in the store here, so I will try this:

http://www.servocity.com/html/spt50_sub-micro_pan___tilt.html

Looks promising plus they have the widest selection i have seen in the last weeks.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Boyle on January 16, 2012 at 1:51pm

Doug.

That looks like a decent rig. How have you attached it to your quad?

And did you have any problems like in my picture above. the gears not meshing?

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Taylor on January 16, 2012 at 4:39pm

Brian,

Sorry you had this problem - It looks like our most recent order of gears came in as a slightly smaller version so the holes are no longer close enough for the gears to mesh. I'll send you a set of the old gears while we change the design to work with the smaller gears. Thanks for bringing the issue to our attention!

Jeff

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Permalink Reply by Brian Boyle on January 16, 2012 at 4:44pm

Jeff.

Thank you for this. I REALLY appreciate it!

I do have a question, do the old gears have teeth to mesh with the servo mount? Also, the arm that the camera is taped to has nothing to catch the servo gears as well, I find that the camera slips easily, is this also a problem with the "new" parts?

Cheers, and thanks again!

Brian.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Taylor on January 16, 2012 at 5:29pm

Brian,

Unfortunately they dont' have teeth - what I do to get the best grip is tighten the screw into the servo lightly then apply some superglue to the area between the screw and the servo to get it way more grip.. if you're brave you could also add superglue to the outside of the servo hub or inside of the gear, just be careful not to add too much!

Jeff

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Permalink Reply by Brian Boyle on January 16, 2012 at 5:39pm

Jeff.

I kinda figured that you were going to say something like that.  if you are going to send me the gears, do you have my shipping information?

Cheers.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Taylor on January 16, 2012 at 5:43pm

Yep, we'll pull up the shipping info from your last order.

Jeff

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Permalink Reply by Brian Boyle on January 16, 2012 at 6:03pm

Right on!

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