Stealth Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 (edited) I have recently ditched the annoying roto start on the savage. I ordered some cheap pull starts from China with the hope I could keep a few in the bashing bag, only Edited September 9, 2015 by Stealth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin28 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 the HPI ones are different (better quality) to the cheapo ones, but i use the cheapo ones with decent cord and not had one break yet. I use 1 mm for my small block engines and 1.5 mm for my big blocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitroholic Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 HPI don't make them. The Savage motor is a rebadged Force unit that HPI buy in. The pullstarts are OK, but nothing special. The Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth Posted September 9, 2015 Author Share Posted September 9, 2015 Thanks for the replies! I'm not really having problems with them, I just like to have spares when I'm out. Nowt worse than getting out and breaking something simple to swap. I currently have one of the cheap ones on and it's doing good. It's the same as the China ones I ordered except it was from a UK seller at twice the price. Might get some of the tough chord on it and leave it at that. My main worry is the chord getting tired and snapping. I also never had a problem with the roto start, other than it doing my head in carrying about. Somehow, the engine knows when I put it back in my bag and decides to cut out That's some good info about the engines. Do hpi actually design any of their own stuff? Who are the main designers? The savage has the F4.6 v1 engine on at the moment and it's a very good engine, never misses a beat when warmed up. When this engine packs in I'm planning on getting a LRP .28 for abit of a change Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevo2551 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 I have the 5.9 in my savage and i've snapped a few pullstarts, went as far as stripping it and redoing with some spare string in the field because I refused to go home after 5 mins haha I've got some supposedly unbreakable string off fleabay and so far so good... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 I have the 5.9 in my savage and i've snapped a few pullstarts, went as far as stripping it and redoing with some spare string in the field because I refused to go home after 5 mins haha I've got some supposedly unbreakable string off fleabay and so far so good... That's the sprit! How much abuse has the "unbreakable" string been through? Is it the American one? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevo2551 Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 I'm not sure which one it is as my friend gave it to me to try after quite a few previously snapping. I'll ask him tommorow and post a link up if I can. it's been in there for a couple of months now and seems good so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevo2551 Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 He can't find the exact one he got I'm afraid, but when he first showed me it I said it looked like kevlar, had a look on fleabay myself and found one similar that says it's kevlar too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 (edited) Cool, thanks! I've just ordered one that says they will replace it if it breaks, gotta be good.... I hope. Not looking forward to the spring explosion when I dismantle it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited September 11, 2015 by Stealth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevo2551 Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 That's what it says in the add that I saw for this string, so far so good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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