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Originally Posted by pedrocamp
The carbon though could be pretty abrasive to the knuckle pins and steering pins.
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No way on this planet! Those pins in the knuckles are case hardened. Wanna wreck a good pair of side cutters? Try to cut one.LOL I wish 1/12 scale pan cars had pins this nice.
I was pretty impressed once I realized this. These pins are the main reason why the suspension is so smooth. Even if the carbon is sticky, the pins will ultimately polish the holes nicely. The same is true for the hopup aluminum ones. We noticed that they have a little sticky to them new, but if you leave them on same car for a long time, they will polish up nice. That said, we prefer plastic as it is always smoothest and best suspension action. (FYI, Joel Johnson runs and prefers plastic)
Carbon's strength is tensile (stretching), not shear (chopping). Most of the carbon we use in r/c isn't necessarily the best material for the application but the weight savings and looks are what get people to use it over and over.