Anyone into R/C?

I know! I had the third hand tool and I still had a hard time. Not sure if it was the iron getting too hot or the size of the tip. Yes, that is what she said...

I saw that one at Lowe's too but I didn't think it would get hot enough. I am now shopping on Amazon for one.

Thanks for the link!

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Thought about going that route but nobody I know around here has them.

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I use this one http://www.lowes.com/pd_97541-273-8...rentURL=/pl__0__s?Ntt=soldering+kit&facetInfo=

for deans I set the dean connector how I want it, use tape to hold it, tin it and while its still warm I lay the tinned lean on it and hold the iron on top and watch it melt all the way around the deans connector. iv got deans down failry good now, did a esc and 3 batterys the other day in under 10min

 

EC5s are the shit. Here is were I'm fucked up, my 1/10 truck and buggy use Power Poles, my two planes and two 450 helis use Deans, my other smaller helis use JST connectors, and my new Durango uses bullet connectors.

 

Bless your heart, if you can solder anything with a gun you are the man. I'd rather have sharp stick in the eye as to be forced to use a gun.

 

This is the reason I started buying these:



I have deans and traxxas leads set up since thats all I need and i use the same batterys for most r/c's I have

 

That seems overkill to me - I'd probably melt the whole connector.

That's essentially what I did but it had been about 5 years since I had soldered anything. I honestly it was more the user than the tools.

Why not just convert them all?

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Haha, when my first iron broke I found the gun, hated it at first but now iv got pretty good with it.

 

I prolly should, but it's not a big deal. For everything but the JSTs (have a octopus for them) I just use tiny alligator clips for charging leads.

 

Smart. I never actually use the alligator clips on my charger. I guess I forget they're even there.

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thinking of getting the anza chassis for my 2wd slash and selling my strc lcg chassis as a roller or almost ready to run. hmmm

 

Not much actual racing action, but a good overall tour of the AMS 3.0 I found on YouTube (not mine). Just kinda shows the scope of the whole deal. Thought some would enjoy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSP_OB7Qldg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

Most of my parts came in for my new stampede, got it mostly together, still a few things to put on. Just rough cut the body, still gotta trim it and mount it, thinking about just throwing bed liner on it so im not worried about scratching it if I did a decent paintjob..

 

thats a good looking buggy

 

I ran half a battery yesterday, but the track was dry as a bone, so it was kinda hard to really tell anything.

 

Still waiting for one of these to be available for purchase!
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I want a nitro truggy...


If you guys haven't noticed, I go through "phases"

 

Gave one the once over Sat. looks almost like a scale madel with the body down.

 

They also had the Sc10 GT for 320, which I probably would have bought if my wife wasn't there. The gt 10 looked pretty bad ass too