dkshema
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Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
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| If you are not happy then do something, anything, about it.
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Demanding better quality parts and kits ISN'T doing something about the problem? It's only whining? Putting up with substandard quality IS doing something useful?
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| You do realize that the popularity of the T-rex exploded and they make thousands of all these little parts your whining about right? What kind of tolerances do you expect them to hold?
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Mass production is an excuse for poor quality control? I wonder how many vehicles Honda, Lexus, Toyota have turned out in the past two years. And of the millions of parts that have been manufactured to produce them. Would you accept poor quality parts and simply excuse it as being because they are mass produced?
Yes, I own two T-Rexes. Both were bought early in the T-Rex production cycle. One is a 450X, the other a 450X-V2, both have been slowly upgraded to near-XL versions as crashes occur and give me opportunity to buy newer parts. But, I believe, at least for me, there won't be a NEW T-Rex in the house, nor its 600 big brother. Will I continue to rebuild the two I have after crashes? Maybe not.
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| Or how bout everyone that has a problem with one, sell it, dont buy another one!
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Maybe many have, you don't know about them, though, do you?
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| Stop whining to everyone and let those who want to play with TREX's warts and all get on with it.
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We're not trying to keep people from "playing" with their T-Rexes, but we are asking that Align produce better quality parts. How is that notion not compatible with enjoying your Rex? Aren't you really interested in getting your money's worth?
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| Do people go to the Kyosho forum and whinge and say I have had Hirobo for years and they are perfect.
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Some do. But not very many. The reason? Both Kyosho and Hirobo (and other manufacturers) turn out high quality kits and parts. Perhaps you haven't visited the Kyosho forum and read some of the posts about the Caliber 5 that was introduced just after Christmas. There have been a flurry of posts over there asking for improvements in quality of parts of that kit. Perhaps you're not familiar with the opinion quite a few people have of the older Nexus kits. The problem you see over in the other forums is that people have come to expect high quality stuff out of the box, and when they don't get it, they complain. Over here, people accept poor quality, pay for poor quality, and then get defensive of their poor quality when some of us demand better stuff. With Align, you've become conditioned to expect less, so you accept less. And can't understand why others want more.
Imagine how much MORE popular the T-Rex could be if it WERE top quality out of the box. Would that be a bad thing?
Again I ask, if the Align 600 quality is no better than the T-Rex quality, will you buy it?
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. Is it not important that new guys on these forums, possibly considering to buy a Trex for the first time get a true sense of the 'real' situation? Yes, I know it's hard to admit having spent thousands of dollars with Align (I'm not exagerating here 
