X6 – Servo Modification

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X-Factory X-6 - X-6 Servo
Mounting Update
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Many Family members have
commented about the need to grind a bit on the chassis to fit their
servo. Here's the history:
The very first machined Delrin chassies
were made just like a Losi XXX chassis, and the two front
"arms" broke off on the first battery pack.  Greg did a
great job gluing them back together and we kept testing, but for the
second batch of fiberglass-filled Delrin prototypes we added lots of
material for strength.  Notice the thick spot in the side of the
chassis, as well as extra material on the floor in front of the servo.

Where I ground out the chassis,
the point to this is so the pins of the servo mounts sit flush into
the hole, servo as low as possible. Areas boxed in Red to highlight
areas.

We added too much on the
floor, and the Boyz had to grind off a lot to fit their servos.  When
we made the magnesium chassis, we took away some material there, but a lot
of grinding was still necessary.  We removed still more material for
the production prototype molded chassies and held our breath.

Same grinding area,
different angle....again, red boxes highlighting areas.

The Boyz still had to grind
some, but no molded chassis broke. So we really held our breath,
removed a bit more material, and went to production.  It's almost
right, but we'll take more off in the second batch of production, sometime
next year.

This picture is
where the servo tabs themselves were slightly trimmed. Just enough
to match the bottom of the servo mount, once again, so the servo
sits flush. Sorry for the quality, I need to figure out how to use
"macro" focus on my camera...or buy an easier one to use.

You get the best of both
worlds.  By custom-fitting your servo, no more material than is
absolutely necessary is removed, so your particular servo fits and the
maximum material is there.  As this is written, no one has reported
breaking a chassis there, so we think this is actually a good thing.

The tops of my servo
"ears" were touching, so I trimmed them, and I trimmed the
chassis in the spots shown (well I only show one). If you dont use
button head screws...you may need to trim the chassis where the top
screw is. I used button head screws on the bottom

Do it carefully.  It doesn't really
take more than about five minutes, and you only need to do it once. 
Follow instruction A4. 

We've included with this article some
pictures from Joey King which show how he did it.

A bit more history:  At first there
were only going to be six bags in the Kit, but we decided to have you do
the servo first so nothing would be in the way while you install the
servo.  That's why Bag G has so little in it -- G and A were supposed
to be one.

Special thanks to X-Factory family member
Joey King for the pictures.

Source: XFactoryRC