About those "faulty" arms on Asuga and Kagama

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Yeah I don’t know, I broke both Asuga upper arms, but the new ones I bought have held up fine. I think it’s a bad batch, but obviously Stefan would know more.
 
razorrc said:
Yeah I don’t know, I broke both Asuga upper arms, but the new ones I bought have held up fine. I think it’s a bad batch, but obviously Stefan would know more.
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Stefan sounds like a lovely man. But he ain't saying anything. 🤣😅😝
 
@AnthonyJaques, please could you get a photo of the fracture face of the broken bit please, just the section that I've (badly) circled and arrowed?
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Jeffwazz said:
@AnthonyJaques, please could you get a photo of the fracture face of the broken bit please, just the section that I've (badly) circled and arrowed?
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I really don't care who owns what or who works in what department. I am an honest person I have no reason other than complete and utter dissatisfaction with the new stuff.

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first 5 min it was done

Jeffwazz said:
@AnthonyJaques, please could you get a photo of the fracture face of the broken bit please, just the section that I've (badly) circled and arrowed?
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I have many sets of different sizes so I'm going back to the old long arm.the extra asuga arms I have I may try to boil them see if it helps at all

I have 3 builds waiting so I'm not wasting anymore time waiting on corally.Stephen said I'd get a new set. So I guess we will see.
 
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On the initial photo of the fracture, there's a shiny section, which might indicate a lack of fusion between the 2 surfaces, and hence a weak point. Does the fracture face have areas that look different? Can you get a photo of the break across the cross-section?
The break down by the pillow ball thread also doesn't look like a normal break in fibre reinforced polymer, possibly suggesting that the 'surface optical effect' penetrates quite a way into the bulk of the material, knocking down the material strength by quite a margin.
 
Jeffwazz said:
On the initial photo of the fracture, there's a shiny section, which might indicate a lack of fusion between the 2 surfaces, and hence a weak point. Does the fracture face have areas that look different? Can you get a photo of the break across the cross-section?
The break down by the pillow ball thread also doesn't look like a normal break in fibre reinforced polymer, possibly suggesting that the 'surface optical effect' penetrates quite a way into the bulk of the material, knocking down the material strength by quite a margin.
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Yes very much so

AnthonyJaques said:
Yes very much so
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Jeffwazz said:
On the initial photo of the fracture, there's a shiny section, which might indicate a lack of fusion between the 2 surfaces, and hence a weak point. Does the fracture face have areas that look different? Can you get a photo of the break across the cross-section?
The break down by the pillow ball thread also doesn't look like a normal break in fibre reinforced polymer, possibly suggesting that the 'surface optical effect' penetrates quite a way into the bulk of the material, knocking down the material strength by quite a margin.
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So, is there any update on this? Did you guys get replacement parts?

Some of the members coming to the table with problems may not be returning with an update on solutions.
 
Horatio said:
So, is there any update on this? Did you guys get replacement parts?

Some of the members coming to the table with problems may not be returning with an update on solutions.
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None here, we zip tied my brothers and he ran it that day, haven't seen the Asuga since. That was a few months ago. I don't think he was particularly impressed with it. I liked it, but he hasn't even mentioned the Asuga. Happens when one has too many I guess, LOL.
 
The upper arms on my Asuga have split on the seams. The car is about 10 months old now. We had a couple of cartwheels, no bad crashes.
I noticed a lot of slop and decided to take the arms out for inspection.

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SirCrashALot said:
The upper arms on my Asuga have split on the seams. The car is about 10 months old now. We had a couple of cartwheels, no bad crashes.
I noticed a lot of slop and decided to take the arms out for inspection.

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Well that's the moulding defect we discussed previously. We'd all hoped it had just gone away. 🤔
 
Mojave upper arms mod done.
I have several sets of new Mojave upper arms.
While they are stronger, the tolerances are off. I tried 3 right uppers. Only the 3rd was acceptable. The left was tight right away.
 
Jeffwazz said:
There's probably lots of arms around with the famous flow-line defects. Looks like another pair have been found 🧐
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Yip my Kagama has them on the front lower arms was a bit worried but had it since September last year and it's been a tank, checked the arms every now and then and the lines have not turned into cracks.

I have slammed this thing pretty hard into the ground learning back flips and the arms are still ok 🤞
 
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