Should You Grease Your Motor's Pinion Gear or Not?
About this episode
This episode discusses whether to grease the motor's pinion gear in radio-controlled model vehicles and the factors influencing this decision.
Should you or should you not grease your radio-controlled model vehicle motor pinion gear? If so, what kind and how much grease should you actually use? Well, it depends on what R/C car, buggy, truck, tank, van, jeep, or bus model you have. In this episode of the RC Deep Dive podcast we finally settle this long-running debate in the Tamiya radio-control model vehicle hobbyist community.
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