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blasta999

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  1. Hey All, Rob, 36 from Nth rocks Sydney (near parra) Also get down Knox way in Melbourne regularly to catch up with my brother who also appears to be branching out to vintage with an Avante shortly (re-re) haven't got into the the racing, but have a few I bash around with!
  2. I bought a new phone.... So now i'm surfing tamiyaclub mobile! LOL
  3. Well I'm a bit tight I don't race, so I use traxxas radio gear (u know the kit split ups on ebay from people upgrading) for both analogue and digital. Have got lots of old Acoms gear from the 80s though. Along with some Tamiya stuff. It does the job i want of it, like the idea of the waterproof stuff too, bought the servos, now hav to setup the Rx and should have it installed in the crawler soon. Rob
  4. Well first day of annual leave for me today, miserable and rainy. After a few hours trying to dodge the rain gardening I have given up and am now finishing a strip down of my cheapie car boot sale vintage hotshot chassis. MUCH more fun Will only do a little on that one as I still have maintenance to do on my runners - got a couple of days set aside to run the buggies with my brother while on holidays in Melbourne. Rob. So what have you done today?
  5. I spent the day yesterday stripping an Old Hotshot..... Over the past month I have picked an original Frog and Hotshot at the local market for 30 and 10 Aussie bucks respectively. Frog is complete albeit poor condition due to rust etc on buggy and radio gear (totally stock) (even got a hump pack with it i plan on re-packing.) Hotshot is missing body and a couple of other small parts but is in reasonable condition, in fact now I have started stripping it, mechanically it has had very few packs through it! apart from some poor prep on the gears (Lots of moulding dags), and a melted nylon bush due to lack of grease, it's going to come up a very nice buggy! plenty of spares available in the junk box, so I reckon this may end up my 2nd vintage hotshot runner! Enjoying some more time for the hobby due to some life changes recently, so these old buggies have had perfect timing to turn up! Berman - Envious on the job offer, part time or not it would be VERY hard to pass up!! Rob. So, what have you done today?
  6. OH I gotta get me some of that! If it works, I shall have to find someone to take 3/4 of a tin of nitro fuel! Rob
  7. I'm with the ESC programming as well, certainly makes the most sense! if it's an old brished motor, it certainly could be possible brush failure though, I've had a similar thing happen on a silver can that was well beond its "use by". Just cheuck another in ther to prove the motor out. Rob
  8. Oh that's a fantastic site they have there WW-nut, in the tamiya R/C parts section i love the lack of pictures, sorting or even page numbers LOL. I can see the issues you are having with the stocking levels Papero, but I ONLY WISH we had guys like Tamiya USA.... I wish they'd ship down here! I'm regularly looking at their site in envy. FYI... these are our distributors http://www.toytraders.com.au/tamiya_holding.asp - Coming soon "apparently!?" Luckily i live close to a great LHS that stocks plenty of Tamiya, and also have access to Fleabay for the unusual stuff. Cheer up, the hobby is supposed to make u smile Rob.
  9. Another day off work sick (3rd week now ) Received my high clearance arms and alloy drivechafts for the CR01 yesterday, so happily went about installing them today. Very easy, and well worth it considering the 1st run tailshaft twist i got So..... What have you done today??
  10. 95% Tamiya here for my vintage, happy to muddy the water for modern ones though. Same as others, it was what I grew up with, and honestly, there wasn't much else at the track other than Tamiya when I was a kid. I htink that for someone that likes to use them, parts are generally easier to come by too. I do have an onroad vintageish Kyosho that I was given to repair.... but is still sitting in its box so far :/ A gold tub RC10 would be nice though. Rob.
  11. At home on sick leave for the next few days... not a good start to winter! :/ But it's going to give me a little time for hobbies....including this one So I have at last got around to installing the electrics in the CR01, I dug around and found the original Rx and ESC from my Emaxx. Radio gear and batter installed and off we go for a run! Great little chassis, already nicely scratched underneath after taking it or a bash in the backyard! Unfortunately after only 20 mins play, I can already see the twisting in the driveshafts. Not too impressed by that, Looks like it's time to start spendin on hop ups.... but in principal, it won't be Tamiya driveshafts now! Rob. So what have you done today?
  12. G'day Mark, yep, same issue here. I assembled/disassembled/shimmed until i decided it wasn't me, it was the casting. Have it up and running now and can't see any problems with the diffs. Bit of a shame as i like htings running ultra smooth, but not a big deal in a crawler I suppose!? Rob.
  13. Today I received the final parts for my Emaxx repair/rebuild/refresh...... Why would that be exciting you ask? Well.... it's currently taking up the desk space which will be required for my new CR01 and Frog build!!! Those 2 kits arrived yesterday, these will be my first BRAND NEW Tamiya Kits since I was a kid! I have rebuilt plenty now, but it's been a very long time since I've have the pleasure of building one from new. Can't wait..... now I just have to get out of the sick bed, and i'll be able to start on them all. Looking forward to tomorrow, hopefully I'll be well enough to spend a couple of hours in the workshop... SO...What have you done today? Rob.
  14. I suppose my most problematic was my first Fox from when i was a kid. It got rebuilt so many times it wasn't funny, mainly gears and snapped chassis! drove my father mad as he couldn't keep up with the spares cost, so it led to my first after school job It was also my usual birthday/xmas/good marks at school pressie for a number of years. Then the rc gear failed and that was it, into a box for many years, carried from house to house. Until divorce 5years ago when i was throwing things out to make room in the new place....... and always regretted it! (My current partner of 6 years has only encouraged the R/C My current fox, with a few upgrades is old faithful, it always gets taken out as the "backup buggy" when going to the track with mates, it always just seems to keep going, and its tailhappy attitude is great fun! Rob
  15. Today I went shopping on "The Bay" Currently in the post and winging its way to little old Sydney town... 1 x set of new CVDs for the Emaxx to replace the bent one i found while rebuilding and retuning 1 x CR01 cruiser!! 1 x Frog Re-Re for the missus to come bashing with (well she wants a scorcher really, but talked her into this for now for bashing) Wow! 2 x new kits at once.... i'll be all confused and won't know where to start! Rob. So, What have you done today?
  16. Yep, and even better....quick fixes!
  17. Don't forget it's supposed to do that to a certain extent anyway (ackerman angle) From memory the amount of ackerman angle is adjusted from the stering arm position on the servo horn and the stub axle. (assuming the steering arms are set to the correct lengths to begin with) Rob.
  18. Sitting here at home in the workshop putting in some extra hours on the work laptop writing up some new procedures..... Turning around for a stretch and an eye break i spot my 90% complete Avante, say to myself "i should get that finished as a runner". Then i turn to the workbench, on it is sitting the Novak BL 4.5 and ESC i pulled out of the DF03 some time ago as it's phusically a little big. Little Cogs start whirling in the head..... back to the Avante.... off comes the top, Oooh, that has plenty of room under there for the ESC without the driver Original Avante with a 4.5T BL Novak Velocity....am I looking at a world of pain there!? Jump ahead a few months later..... "But Hunny, i just need a little more hobby money to get some spare gears and C Hubs for the Avante, I don't know why they broke... they were just really um, old....." Rob. So what Sinister carnage have you planned today?
  19. Yeah the new server makes it all much speedier, After following the Twitter stream yesterday, it looks like it was hard work, but well worth it!!! Rob.
  20. Today has been a day (or weekend) of maintenance, After 4 days of regular DF-03 bashing with my brother on a trip to Melbourne a couple of weeks ago, i decided it was long overdue for a complete rebuild, so out comes all the greases, shock oils, shellite and so on. Wow it needed it. This buggy has been such a dream basher in comparison with the old vintage stuff i have, it just keeps on going. 1 motor screw missing and the other with only 2 threads left in the castle brushless, and it was still going strong (albeit i did think i was going to need new gears) So after much TLC, a new lower king pin screw and collar, plenty of cleaning and greasing it's ready for more abuse. Emaxx rebuild is next.... then discussions with the missus on what buggy she's buying herself as a redundancy pressie (hoping I'll be included in the RC pressies too!) And after all that, i just realised i forgot the vintage race day was on at the local club today! totally forgot to head down for a spectate. Ah well, fixing these things is sometimes more fun than driving them! Rob
  21. Hey guys, The old NJ Paj (well not as old as an XE Falcon) is just about to hit 400,000 KM. orig motor, gbox, diffs. Been across Aus a couple of times and seen some of the worst (if not the worst) roads this country has to offer! So pretty happy with that! Rob. (thoughts with those in the Victoria Bushfires)
  22. Ah embrace it!! The world is heading toward Geeksville anyway I had similar time at school (except still smoking) then did plenty of partying afterwards, Became a mechanic etc. Now, I'm IT qualified in the communications industry, love spending time with hobbies in the workshop downstairs, own about 7 PCs, manage an operations centre and have a 4wd Pajero 1:1 that has taken me to most parts of Australia and now starting to get out for a mountain bike occasionally or some fishing. SO just make it well rounded, I quite like it when people call me a Geek, NUFIN wrong with that! Makes them more surprised when oyu can do a little bit of everything, love that saying "Jack of ALL trades" Rob
  23. Yesterday I came home from Xmas family travels to my Xmas Pressie I gave myself - a castle sidewinder 5700 - So today, I installed it in my DF03 which hasn't been used in 6>9 months after a dissapointing brushless motor install. In fact apart from slowly doing a bearhawk rebuild the R/C has taken a backseat t work First impression - GOOD FUN might have to improve the tyre glueing though!! Looking forward to spending more time with the R/C stuff again! Merry Xmas all !! SO..... What have you done today!!
  24. Here Here. Well said!! I REALLY want the knight hauler, I love the scale realism to a real rig, and looks like a fun challenging kit to build. Just can't justify the money for it and the fuel tanker right now. I don't think i would really drive it around much though. Rob
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