Anyone into R/C?

That is good to know now I'm glad I didn't get them. I haven't had the Patagonia's that long but so far they have been great. They are 1.9 x 4.7 with the X2S³ compound. There are so many different tires with different compounds you can go crazy trying to choose one.

 

I hate rc3wd tire compounds. They have the best licensed tires but I wish Proline go was what they used.

I really like Proline tires... hyrax, super swamper, and krawlers are usually what I choose.

 

Everyone raves over the hyrax but I haven't had the chance to try them yet. I have the boggers on my capra and I like them a lot. They are the biggest 1.9 tire I could find and fit perfectly on the capra.

 

I have maybe 2x 2200 batteries ran in this. There’re 2.2 with proper CI comp cut foams and worked fantastic on large rip rap stones. I just lost the bug to chase down terrain as there isn’t much natural rocks where I am located. The full size foams let the tread do the work instead of conventional ‘aired down’ performance.

 

@Age315

Any suggestions on how to get the bearings out of the steering bells?

 

Drift punch maybe?

 

Got it.





New rack and steering bells, servo, and mounting plate.

Stripped 4 out of 4 screws swapping in the new overdrive gear

Thankfully this isn't my daily

 

Went to the drift track at the local hobby shop for the first time. First time drifting in a few years and I'm very rusty and the chassis needs a lot of tuning, but I had a ton of fun.

While I was there, though, I saw they had a Tamiya BB-01 kit. I preordered one from Tower Hobbies back in February but even though the kit came out in June due to supply chain issues I never got mine so I canceled the ordered. This one was just sitting there when I walked into the store and the employee told me they had just gotten it the night before after waiting a while for it, and it was their only one.

Needless to say, I bought it.

 

Since new this truck has been having intermittent coms problems. Seems like every 10-30 minutes it would unbind, and there was a lot of noise on the steering channel.

Enter a random impulse buy of the radiolink 7 ch tx/rx with telemetry and gyro. It's way overkill but the price wasn't bad for the features, and the programmable curves are pretty awesome.

Unfortunately in tuning it I smashed a fender. Thank goodness I had the 3d file on hand and could print a replacement.

It's fairly obvious now that the the steering servo has a lot more slop than I had noticed previously. I might have to upgrade that next.








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Random crawling pics from the last excursion:

 

I have an older version of that Tx/Rx and have had good results with it. I bought mine then the next iterations had a usb port for programming.

 

Anybody else get this email? Don’t know why but I want one.

https://www.towerhobbies.com/product/110-1979-chevrolet-monte-carlo-lowrider-rtr-black/RER15255.html

 

I didn't get any email.... I have wanted a lowrider for a while and this Monte Carlo reminds me of training day....

 

What I was thinking. Maybe mount some servos on the suspension, too.

 

Anyone have one of these or have considered something like it?
https://www.amainhobbies.com/kyosho...MI-8a1m_ORgQMVIvv9BR1Evge3EAEYASABEgL4WfD_BwE
Winter is looming and thought it might be fun to plow/groom the back deck.

 

Let me know. I would love to have a machine that collects dogshit.

 

Jeremy Renner does.

 

I have seen them in person and the stock plastic tracks leave a lot to be desired. The guy who bought it burned up the motors too. I think they are a bit weak for the resistance of the tracks....

I did see they had metal tracks available and someone had made a 540 conversion to run a larger motor....

Seems like a lot to really get it right

 

I think Tamiya or Kyosho used to make an RC front end loader. I know RC dump trucks are still available. You'd still have to rig up some kind of Sandlot catapult to fling it into the garbage can.

https://www.amainhobbies.com/tamiya...i-tractor-monster-truck-kit-tam58676/p1172072

 

I had 30 bucks to toss out the window, so I thought I'd swap the motor for a 12T and see what happens.

 

I was not expecting the answer to be "do donuts on bare concrete and lose a fight to the patio furniture", but here we are. I learned something today.