Anyone into R/C?

Yes! Been doing rc's forever as well. First real crawler was a pti Goliath (came out about the same time as the the tlt). It ended up with an rc-10 b4 transmission and lathe motor, with a full metal hand made avalanche engineering sniper chassis.

next was an xtm xfactor powered by a 4stroke .40 O.S. nitro motor. It would toast a clutch on command.
Next was a completely original bruiser. In perfect shape, and my dumb ass sold it for $1200. Should haven't done that.

 

Man I wish I had pics, buddy and I brazed together a full tube chassis tlt based crawler. Thing was neat!

 

Took a couple more photos this morning. Had to blur out those plates though. Sorry.

 

Is that the original tranny!?!! That thing is moving. My f150 is a snail’s pace.

 

Pics or it didn’t happen. Lol.

 

Now im gonna have to dig.... i miss the days of 15 years ago being 15 yrs old with a map gas torch, brake line and brazing rod and the only problem in our world was did our mini bikes have some gas so we could hoon around the neighborhood and get to eachothers places in ease.

 

I wish i was 15, 15 years ago. Haha.

 

Im turning 30 in august.... i dunno how to handle being "old"



EDIT - Sigh, went through what i know as far as all my archives and couldnt find a pic of the brazed together tube chassis. I wonder if my buddy still has that sumbitch.

 

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Its all good, get back in to it. Scale crawling is almost as fun as real crawling.

 

No, it's a 12v 2000rpm, trans, combines with I think it was a 300rpm orlandoo motor. I have slowly added a collection of the little motor/gear box combos and can't remember exactly which one it was. The n20 motor/gearboxes are cheap on eBay.

 

Wasn’t this truck leafs before as well? Did you link the TF2 or switch chassis? It looks good!

 

Ok, judging by these cool RC's this question may be too elementary. I'll ask anyway.

I want to get my kid a halfway decent, under $100 rc truck. Speed is not important, he's 5 and slower will make it easier to control. Will be used in our large desert yard, looks like a dirt/gravel parking lot. Also would like rechargeable.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

18th scale ECX torment

 

SCX24. About $100

 

Thanks! Both look pretty good but the SCX24 is out of stock on Amazon.

 

This body was on my TF2, now its on my SCXii. I should have fit the sliders before beating on it, it didn't take long to destroy the paint . I'll probably repaint it with a bobbed bed when I add the sliders and rear bumper.

 

I was just going to suggest AMain Hobbies but it's out of stock there as well.

 

Started the TRX-4. Going mostly ok, with the exception of the struggle to get all the needed parts delivered at roughly the same time.





So. Many. Tiny. Screws.


Overdrive for the front axle in lieu of standard gears.



eBay special beadlocks. Very, very similar to the much more expensive Vanquish products...

 

Here’s my scx10 ii build.

 

What sliders are those? I am having a hard time finding any to look right.