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  1. I need 3 new of these to use in a Can Am Lola. Soldering up a pack is not something I want to do myself (any more than paintstripping now! [8o|] ). Anybody know of a good online seller? Many thanks []
  2. Type in NIB, pick the cheapest one that comes in a 'golden era big white box' buy it ...and get stuck in! [] [] [au]
  3. During the past 3 weeks I have had the joyful opportunity to try all the methods mentioned in the past. The final solution is: Don't do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Buying a new shell is ultimately a better experience (regardless of cost). If it is a very old painted shell, SOME of the paint will come off. If it is a newish (from '99 say) painted shell, forget it. Nothing removed the paint from my '94 painted Daytona thunder. Older painted shells: Last two days have had slightly more progress on a Wild One shell. But the result still leaves lots of paint sporadically over the shell. Nitro - some effect but not alot Citrus 'Jiff' brand bathroom/house cleaning cream - better than nitro. Scrubbed in with a skitchen scratchy sponge. Better than nitro at getting paint of wheels (why o WHY do people paint wheels??!) Brake fluid - soaking over night. As good at citrus/house cleaning cream but you still need to take it out and scrub it off. So may as well just do this to begin with, with the citrus cleaner, rather than buying new brake fluid, bucketing it, waiting all night and smelling it around the house. Oven cleaner - best option. In fact the one I used was out of date by 2 years but it still did the better job. However it's horrible to work with and burns and invariably splashed on you, clothes, ktichen counter etc. Use gloves! I thought I was smart using a nose and mouth mask. But with oven cleaner this backfired. The fumes go thru the mask and then recirculate! Burning throat for two days and still continuing... [:@] So I still have paint marks all over which I need to scrub out with steel wool. Gloves or no gloves, finger skin takes a battering. For 25 UK Pounds I could have bought a new body with sticker on ebay. A much better solution! Hope this helps others.
  4. Possibly the problem. But if so, I would have expected it to happen during the previous day long race. Regardless, they are a poor effort from tamiya. Having to add 'click on' sleeves to adjust the spring rate is just lame. Why didn't they stick with the screw tightenable collar in the previous 'hop up' generation of grey shocks? No excuses tho! Get out and race the oldies!! [] []
  5. [au] Thanks for the feedback No idea how to write a blog! But it is fun putting it up here []
  6. Excellent info. I take your point, and it's a valuable link. The Alfa window rubbers are from 1969 and still in excellent condition, as were two other earlier cars, on which vaseline has been used for many years. Perhaps the 'rubbers' are combination of several materials? I'll have a chat with Maguires and a few others to find out more.
  7. My other hobby is classic cars. Vaseline is by far and away the best and simplest way for rejuvenating door and window rubbers and keeping them in good shape. I don't know if the modern tamiya tyre rubber will benefit as much from it, but it'd be worth a try I would think.
  8. So here we go again.... [] as promised race report of sticking the vintage Tamiya's in the face of new models! Last saturday was the second race in the series, and like before I entered th Dynastorm in against the Losi's and Daaaark Impacts in the Buggy category; and my new aquired bargain 39EURO! Group C Daytona THUNDER [] in the nostalgia category. Result: Dynastorm 3rd, 1st, 1st Daytona THUNDER! 1st, 1st, 3rd hahaha, they are not slow! Action, action, disaster, loooooong black burn out lines [] , and SCREEEEEEACHING group c pinion and diff noises [] [] [:'(] So I had a good time, though it sounds better than it was. Unlike last time, I was not in the main classes rather I was in C and B due to crappy qualifying rules. So I blitzed competitors who I should not have been in class with. D'oh. Last time there were about 80 people, this time almost 130. So there were more classes and less time, and only 2 qualifying rounds (three previously). As everything is in Hungarian, I didn't get the briefing understanding. Qualifying was to be based on aggregate position in 2 qualifyings, not on best lap times. So set the scene for me blitzing slower drivers in lower race classes. Dynastorm First qualifying I decided to do nothing the car from the last race, except try this new trick 4200 HV2 matched LRP super lahlah battery I bought the week before. I charged it the night before, so as to minimise the number of cycles on race day. Remember, this don't tell the wife prices battery gave me so much grief from being bigger and not fitting when I tried it at home during the week (see seperate thread); so I was looking for redemption in the form of super speed on track. ****** ALL!!! It was useless. I couldn't believe it. I honestly believe the used 3900 I borrowed from the series sponsor shop the previous time was much better. The car was so average I was only mid pack. Arrrgh! Super my butt! So - disappointed. But not concerned, as a. I was not aware of the qualifying format as mentioned, b. maybe it would run spectacularly immediately after a charge right? So the dark impact boys were surprised, some shocked, but the leaders not concerned. Qualifying two, back to my runner 3000 pack, freshly charged. And.....disaster! The front right shock explodes and the ensuing oil goes everywhere and the tire comes of the rim. Manage to shove it back on and get out again, but it happens again with all that oil and the seven minute qualifying is over. So I was upset, but not worried, as my best lap time was ok right! Luckily I had bought 2 new shocks-the same as the rear ones I used last time - to replace the fronts with at sometime anyway. Examining the busted shock showed that the lower screw-in part of the reservoir had unscrewed itself and dumped all the oil out in one go. Right, that's the end of me liking these so called hop up blue anodised shocks. I complained about the lack of adjustablity from new, and this just killed them imo. Rubbish! On with the cheapo adjustables, which are helpfully shorter and thus lower the DS at the front more. Great! Come race time and I went to the boards to check my new number and was dumbstruck to see me in class C. What the..?!! Oh, this time its position that counted and since you didnt finish the second qualifying you are in the last group... WAHHH!! OK....it's just a toy hobby sport.... jaaa, reeeally. So that set the scene for a massive trouncing of class runners. Race 1 I was third after some spectacularly poor driving, including missing a ramp completely and smashing INTO the UNDERNEATH of it. THUD! Just a bit TENSE! [:@] at being in the wrong class [:'(] [] [] and I charged the 4200 cell and screwed it back into the car again and prayed for my 60EURO value to appear. Naturally it did not. The cells suck. The track was very different this time. During the fist race day a month ago, one entire length of the gymnasium was the back straight. It was FAST! [] . This time the track was all sharp S bends, with the jumps in the turns. Lots more flipping cars! So my wing got a little ironing done.... [] And since I am run-what-you-brung, one screwdriver guy, there was not bigger pinion to change to. Interestingly with the shorter front shocks, and moved to the middle hole on the top of the shock tower (from the outside hole previously) the steering was definitely less sharp and the car understeered more. Going lower was supposed to be better! But it did furhter reduce its flip me tendency. Race two, cruising. ' PICK UP THE CAR!!!! ' [:'(] may have been screamed once at a sleeping marshall though hehe, [] [] Race three, 8 o'clock at night! from a 8am THERE start was a bit too long, but, again, it felt pretty **** to be in this class. It's so much more fun to dice with others. A walk over for 1st again. So the DS wipes some Dark Impacts again, and its great to say that again several people came up to ask what car is it, where can they buy it. I enjoy explaining its a 13 year old model and they are cheap on ebay! Go vintage Tamiya! Group C Daytona Thunder Some late night art work with my girlfriends daughter turned a dog shell into the shell of the meeting! EVERYBODY wanted to take photos of it! It's so cool now infact, I don't really want the pefect painted shell I bought on ebay to replace it with. Anyway, my 'sponsoring' hobby shop wants to buy the car off me now. Racing vintages are great! First qualifying was the first time I ever drove the car! I decided to do nothing to it expect put in a harder spring borrowed from the shop, and to try the free battery that Micheal gave me with the car. .....Woooohoooo! sideways action galor! Real stock car style. Actually, undrivable is more like it. But I wanted to try! First thing was it was totally sidewas and loose. Right, good thing I finally bought tire paint goo after the previous race with the 959. Second, using the untested battery was, upon reflection, with the benefit of reasoned hindsight, and listening to good sense, NOT A GOOD IDEA! It didn't last the full five minutes the nostalgia class has to run. But at least I could drive it in a straight line by the end of the heat [] Qualifying two Tire paint on, 3000 cell in it proved the dynatech was FAAAAST! So quick infact I thought someone was going to complain, as the limit is supposed to be 23 not 19. (They let me run it as it is laughably 13 years old). But now the first problem came to light. The tamiya issued parma shell is a. very soft and flimsy, b. was cut so badly by someone previously, that under braking it bent right down out of shape hitting the floor and the car started hopping maddly! bang bang bang bang! arrr! no stopping in a 5 min heat to re adjust fuddly small body clips meant I kept going, but to know avail, on a track with som many corners it became an amusing nightmare for the on-lookers and me respectively. Still the smiley car was a hit with everyone. Infact I made a new friend when during one of my only off track excrusions it rammed straight into the wheelchair of one guy watching! One one guy their in a wheelchair and I had to hit him!! [8-)] [:'(] Anyway that put paid to a decent postion, and into class B it was for smiley. As with the Dynastorm, I protested it wasn't fair to the other in class but that was it. The guys operating the timing are **** about it I have to say. So, you can see the changes I made to the body to stiffen it up by ductaping some plastic offcuts from the Dynastorm shell before painting. I also raised the body pins as high as possible. Smiley was happy again. The leader of nostalgia was also unhappy I was in class B as he was the one who specifically asked me to bring along a groups c car to play with. He decided to have a look at smiley anyway, and was promplty horrified at the ONLY modification I had done - the stiffer spring. !! He showed me his killer Merc C11, and it is loose as the proverbial goose. So he did a bit of playing and put back on the stock spring and painted the tires with his goo. Race 1 PWOOOOOAR! Two PERFECT Looooong black power slide lines off the start line (P1!) made it look like the real thunder car it is! Fantastic! So cool. (In fact it was so cool I nearly crashed it into to wall, but I won't mention that!) after two corners the car could take several of the corners flat and smiley just walked away. until half way thru "SSSSCCCRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAACHHH!!" happened. Now the few people who were not watching smiley go round the track, definitely did turn around to find out what the heck was happening. It really sounded like it was in agony and like a sick car engine, I got lots of shouts about it running on 7 cylinders. I didn't care, it was goign to finish and win darnit! The entire crowd of 130 came to watch the smiley absolutely howl its way around for the last two minutes and they were cheering when the timing guy anounced 1 minute and then 30 seconds. Made it. First. "King Smiley" comments, but I was more concerned about 2 more races to go an no spare parts! Turned out the carpet fibre had built up in the teeth of the diff gear and puched away the motor pinion, till they were slipping on each other. Hence the loud noise. The spurr gear has very fine teeth. I see there is another type of gear with larger teeth, can someone tell me what it is? Anyway first tries with the tooth brush to clear out the dirt were not very helpful, so I started carefully cleaning each groove with a stanley knife. What happens while I am doing this? Wheel chair man comes up to talk to me! We had a good long chat about rc cars, him, what I am doing there (the only foreigner) and that he may come along next time with his TT chassis. So the stanly knife helped, but the gear teeth had been ground away fairly low so I wedged the motor pinion as tight as I could against the diff and hoped it would hold out for two more races. It did, smiley blitzed it, and only poor driving from me prevented a sweep of first places. Still 1st, 1st, 2nd was not bad for his first time out. So far I haven't found any pictures posted, but when I find them I will post the link. Also hoping someone will make another video like last time. For the next race I will be taking the Dynastorm again, with 3900 cells from the new 'sponsor' shop, and for the nostalgia class my just-purchased..... Lola Can Am! VERY excited about this car. It's just fun to take out these old cars and have fun! The good thing is the shop, and several people at the races, all want to buy the cars after, so I can feel that the cars aren't really a sink hole of money. Oh the lies!! haha. I will keep you updated, provided any of you are interested in these postings? Cheers. Race the vintage cars! []
  9. Ah, must be no other boxes surviving! Now worth ~US$2750 [] []
  10. Excellent! That gets my award for the star reply! hehe, good stuff
  11. Well...'exciting' to drive is more like it [] [] [] The 934 box and car with the shell on does look good. My thought though is, shell off, its going to look pretty much like all the other cars currently. Which takes away something when you take it out to play with others, race or playing. That is where it falls down for me. Can't confuse a 959, Can Am or SRB with anything else.
  12. A sideways pack (I think this is what you mean) will not fit. It has a precise fit battery holder/frame. So exactly how many times can I cycle a NiMAH trick cell in one day? I thought they had no "memory" problem, as associated with a NiCAD. ? I have a good brand new LRP charger / discharger. Thanks for all the advice. It's appreciated.
  13. .....and kicking Dark Impacts' hides on the race track with the Dynastorm now is just the ultimate 'golden era' feel!! [] [] []
  14. Late '80s to early '90s. Then we had enough pocket and odd job money (how did we enough to pay for kits as kids?!! amazes me looking back). FAV, FOX, Hotshot, Bigwig, KC [] , Suuuper Astute, 959, Egress. All the cars the kids had at school, so alot were a few years old. I had infact never heard of or seen an SRB until finding TC 2 years ago. (Doesn't stop me from wanting a SS badly tho!) A great era, supplemented by endless hours of catalogue reading and actually going outside and playing with the cars everyday. Even though I am a 'runner', these days I struggle to actually drieve my cars twice a month. ...entering this new race series has helped and been brilliant so far (see thread). On boxes, I was very surprised with the box of the Daytona Thunder, my only newish car. The older big white boxes are what I would, if forced, use to 'define' the golden era. The Clodbuster box was simply huge! I remember taking it home on the MRT (metro) and just dying to get it home to open up and build. Sad thing is I can't even remeber what happened to it after I left school. Was a bore to drive after the Astute though. Car that gives me the best memories is the FAV. It justs Howled for faaaaaantastic power slides with those tires and rear shocks on asphalt. Good thing - for the front tires and spring only made for woefull understeer otherwise!! [] ...cool trip!
  15. Ok, cutting -hacking- away the plastic on the front of the car battery holder with a kitchen knife, pliers and unscrewing the rear plate has allowed the battery to be forced in. With no other alternative, I have screwed the rear metal plate on, and the battery has to stay in there for the whole race day! So I hope it doesn't mind being cycled 6 times in one day. 3 heats, 3 races. [:S] My concern is how much is going to expand with heat? It is SQEEEZED IN now...
  16. ****** me! My race pressie to myself has backfired somewhat! Got a trick 4200 LRP "HV2 true matched" mama cell pack in a moment of overspend, and now I find the cells are a pysically different size! The LOOK the same size, but now I see they are slightly bigger diameter and, crutially LONGER. It does not fit into the Dynastorm battery box/space. [] [:@] Off on a business trip tomo till midnight friday, and race day on Sat. The rear esc holder/metal plate/battery box rear plate also acts as a support for the rear g.box. so removing it totally is not an option. Going to try cutting a bit out of the front plastic holder, before the servo, to let the wires exit from the battery stop taking up space in the battery box. but the rear metal plate thing has to go, and yet, has to stay! Hmmm. An r/c project with only pliers and a screw driver is not such a good idea... Will post picts of the final fix. Not wasting this super-promise-of-performance battery!
  17. Thanks. Today I picked up the RZ motor, to use in the group c car if the 13 year old Dynatech 01R proves too old. The organisers decided to let me run with it as it is so old and a rarity. I will leave the BZ in the Dyna Storm. Wish I had known the RZ was faster when I bought the BZ last month! Would have go tit instead. Regardless, the BZ was fast enough in the first round of races! [] I only have to pay for the RZ if I use it. Otherwise back to the shop unopened next monday. Fun news is - the shop and series organiser have decided to enter me under the shops banner, as I am running such old interesting cars! []
  18. Just noticed Bomba - I will be coming from Europe at Christmas (to the Gold Coast) and can carry the parts for all Oz or NZ based buyers, and post tem locally form there. []
  19. Too right, chemical farr farr was a waste of time and money unfortunetly. But I was surprised about the tenacity of old lexan paint! Got the good old citrys spray out and a green kitchen scruff pad out and cleaned all the old sticker gunk off the outside, and it looked somewhat better. Happened to be in a craft store in the afternoon and they had some VERY stretchable type of pvc plastic adhesive sheets. Bought black and have covered the sides of the shell to disguise the **** cutting. worked fine, and it will peel off with no trace. Will get some picts. Try to trade the nitro for a receiver at the LHS tomorrow! Did consider painting the outside after realising how tought to get off paint is! But then the craft shop came along first.
  20. Hope the attached photos come out. Brushing on nitro did nothing!! After 10mins heavy brushing with a nitro saturated brush nothing happened. So I uncomfortably let petrol sit in the shell for further 10 mins, but still nothing. Is the paint unusually strong or... ? I expected the paint would just dissolve off under the brush... suggestions? The goods 10mins of this 10mins letting it sit No change!?? !
  21. What about drifting on carpet? Are any of the tires described above more suited to sliding on carpet - this may be the solution to keep ing my 959 from flipping. Got to keep it out on track! []
  22. Following from my '959 & Dynastorm carpet race' thread in the "Vintage" section, the 2nd round is next Saturday. Need a new motor for the Dynastorm. 7min race, min 21 turn motor. What is the best tamiya and non tamiya motor for this? [] I had a Tamiya super stock BZ 23turn in it for the last race. Good, 2nd in all three races. But that motor has to go into the Group C car that is relplacing the 959 this time, while I wait for a Kamtec body [] . So what do I put in the Dynastorm. The BZ was clearly excellent but there must be an even better tamiya 21 turn! Batteries I am using are an LRP 3000 pack and a LRP 4200 true matched pack. [au] [] [au]
  23. Yis sah, yis sah, three bags full! Great, just got the new paints, and some nitro. now for some gloves and saturday morning is set..... [] Will post some picts. Cheers!
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