Sketer Weak points

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Are there any common weak points that have been discovered ? I’m asking because I was just going back and forth on my street and one of my rear dog bones broke.

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WOW hit up TC support because I think that's a first here, you running stock power plant?
 
Had to be a one off (hopefully!) Especially for the Sketer.
 
That’s definitely the first I’ve heard of that the front bumper support seems to be an issue other than that should be a very stout car
 
3D-RC.online said:
That’s definitely the first I’ve heard of that the front bumper support seems to be an issue other than that should be a very stout car
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BTW If you want a super dope front bumper support hit up 3DRC, is new design is BEEF!!!
 
Mazin said:
BTW If you want a super dope front bumper support hit up 3DRC, is new design is BEEF!!!
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unfortunately still in testing at the moment. Hopefully in the new few weeks some corally parts will be making it through the pipeline. Want to make sure the consumer gets what they deserve. Soon though 👍
 
Had this. A bit my fault. Crashed it against side of a sidewalk but it is happening more on the Sketer. Easy fix.

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3D-RC.online said:
unfortunately still in testing at the moment. Hopefully in the new few weeks some corally parts will be making it through the pipeline. Want to make sure the consumer gets what they deserve. Soon though 👍
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See This guy is the man to get stuff through! Most smaller makers just come out with a design and rushes it through production to get it sold and then deals with its short comings later in different "Versions", 3DRC won't put a product out until it has been tested, retested and tested some more! That's exactly how I want the parts I buy produced!!!
Keep Up the Good Work!!!!
 
Mazin said:
See This guy is the man to get stuff through! Most smaller makers just come out with a design and rushes it through production to get it sold and then deals with its short comings later in different "Versions", 3DRC won't put a product out until it has been tested, retested and tested some more! That's exactly how I want the parts I buy produced!!!
Keep Up the Good Work!!!!
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Thank you sir. Nobody likes inferior parts lol
 
One of mine is bent. Not broken but I need the replace mine.

As for common weak points, the front A arms, steering end links, and body mount fasteners are breaking or ripping out of the mounts. My rear shock tower is bent as well.
 
3D-RC.online said:
unfortunately still in testing at the moment. Hopefully in the new few weeks some corally parts will be making it through the pipeline. Want to make sure the consumer gets what they deserve. Soon though 👍
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Looking forward to it bro!
JPWarrior_KRX said:
One of mine is bent. Not broken but I need the replace mine.

As for common weak points, the front A arms, steering end links, and body mount fasteners are breaking or ripping out of the mounts. My rear shock tower is bent as well.
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Lower the body mounts they won't pull through..Front arms seem fine to me..Rears can add the graphite inserts..Ends links have been solid for me..Weak points are things that break EASILY ..like the front bumper mount.. Everything else will take abuse before letting go.
 
PhilthyCo rC said:
Looking forward to it bro!

Lower the body mounts they won't pull through..Front arms seem fine to me..Rears can add the graphite inserts..Ends links have been solid for me..Weak points are things that break EASILY ..like the front bumper mount.. Everything else will take abuse before letting go.
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Been thrashing this thing since the beginning of February when it was released, you'll see what I mean about the front A arms eventually, as a few others here have also experienced.😜 I discount the bumper, it's not really doing much anyway, so to me it's not a weak point, but more of a nuisance. I don't understand how lowering the body mounts will acomplish anything? Are you saying there's enough clearance at the tower to lower the body? I ran longer screws through the shock towers and body pins and haven't broken one since. Mine basically go through the mount and pins and come out at the back side of the mount.
I haven't broken my steering links yet, but have seen quite a few that have. It's only a bad landing from happening. 😬
Since upping the diff weights and going to a Max8 I've bent two rear dogbones. Not really a weak point, but a tell for bad technique. I need to get off the throttle sooner when landing...
 
The weakest thing on this car for sure is the front bumper mount (well-known issue already) - but if you would like to keep going with the original bumper there is a really good solution available by arpdesign ... this was mentioned already in another thread:

JMS RC said:
Hopefully now when Corally seem to take off for real we will have a bunch of alternatives for all cars Sketer included, T-Bone announced a while back that they were developing some Corally stuff, since the Sketer is new though it might take a while. Hoping for a proper RPM bumper for my Kronos as well.

Over here in Europe POS Racing was really early with releasing T-bone style bumpers for the Corally bashers and i'm sure he will make some for the Sketer too, there's also Markus at ARP that have done a sort of improvement to the Sketer bumper, most likely printed in TPU/Flex

https://www.arpdesign.at/3d-druck-s...r-bumper-abstützung/#cc-m-product-13048400287
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Of course I have broken my bumper mount as well already (but just partially on the lower side ... also tried to glue it without success):

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I have ordered a spare bumper mount and the above mentioned part from arpdesign. Both are here already and it looks like that combination should work well. But I did not assemble it yet ... because as an intermediate fix I did already some modification to the partly broken one - which is appearantly working so well that up to now (even with some terrible "front landings") I was not able to destroy it anymore :)
This intermediate fix was simply to glue a piece of rubber-granulate (cutted from a quadratic pad - those are used to e.g. be put under wooden beams when builing a terrace to prevent water contact of the wood) inside the "ovale opening" ... so maybe that could be a cheap d.i.y.-solution as well:

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