mosiac

Look like proline moab's to me

Hi OSR To look at they are just a standard dogbone. Not sure of length off the top of my head though. How long do you need it to be? Cheers Hamish

Mine would be: 1 My Winger (nearly complete) resto project. 2 My Parma Chrome wheels (Avatar pic) 3 My NIP Parma frogjumper body set The best part these have cost a grand total of NZ$33 (12-15 GBP) Cheers Hamish

Are tyres glued on rims and is pinion grub screw tight? Hamish

I've got 2. First was about 18 months ago with 2 scorcher chassis (SP. is there a plural or does it have enough S's in there already?) and 2 bodies, 1 original and 1 lexan. I happened to be first to spy it on auction site at $40 start and instantly asked about a BIN price, he came back with make an offer so I said $200 not wanting to either insult him or get a dose of bad karma the follwing week and then waited and waited till 12 minutes later when someone else placed a bid and he could no longer add a BIN. Went for just under $800 as I recall. Second was only november last year when a mate was round and saw my budding collection and said a mate of his had one the same as my MB but it was broken, Smelling a bargain I got his phone number and gave him a call and explained why I was calling etc. He says "Oh, I sold that to a guy last week for a tenner" I was going to start at $25!!! Turns out he snapped chassis (there that word again) about 1990-91 and it had sat since, body hadn't been used as he had a pick up body he liked the look of better...!!!! I just mumbled something like "OK thanks see ya" and hung up so I could beat my head against a wall. Cheers Hamish

When I cleaned up a set for my drifter I got an old axle and used a couple of washers to pack it out and put it in a drill on slow speed and basically used it like a mini lathe. DISCLAIMER: Don't use any form of blade or sharp object, cost me another pair of wheels and some skin when mine bit in and gouged 1 wheel and 2 fingers, could have been an eye. You have been warned. If you use sandpaper though it seems to work good as gold. Good luck

Hi all, Mosiac has been my online nick since the mid 90's and my avatar is a set of vintage crp chrome centreline wheels that will end up on my future scorcher now that the re-re has been announced. Cool thread :-)

Hi all, I know the answer to this is close by and could be a matter of minutes away, or maybe even a couple of hours but would like to know if these will fit a boomer chassis? Cheers Hamish

The average CNC machine only runs a PC of 'average home grade' specs. Alot of the G code files we were using never went over 25k in size. They aren't supercomputers.

Please excuse the off topic but I have over 5000 hours as a CNC programmer/machinist on a 5 axis machine. Re: "Flipping switch" Terry.sc is correct the whole body would scale up. IE every X,Y, and Z (on a 3 axis machine) dimension would be proportionally larger so as he pointed out for correct wheelbase you would have the over size track measurement. BUT on modern software this is very easy to acheive and would require no more than 4 mouse clicks and a couple of minutes recalculating toolpaths. However it would be a cheap and tacky thing to do and if Tamiya did it I would probably not buy one as it would look naff (IMHO). So most likely scenario is: Scale CAD up as above and then shrink, stretch, twist and tweak every dimension till it fits desired chassis and looks like it should, and then apply NEW toolpaths. Then you would have a product that Mr Tamiya would proudly put his name on and mugs like us will fight over in 15-20 years time. Sorry for off topic. Cheers Hamish

Nice find!!! The body on this is exactly what I'm planning on one day apart from the colour

Hi all, I'm looking to get one of these and wondered what TC members had to say about them. I have seen posts where members have 'borrowed' the wifes with good results but can't find them again with search so please post your thoughts/advice to help me make a decision. Cheers Hamish

Hi All, Got them today and very pleased, brand new rubber and chrome is in excellent condition. I have taken a pic so you can have a look. From left to right: Full Wheel----Hub and Tyre----Backview of Chrome center

Nice one, wish I had workmates like that. If it has bearings check and clean them, if it hasn't, get a full set of bearings in it. Give the whole thing a good check over for loose screws etc. so that you can fix any potential problems on the bench at home rather then try and work out where that wheel went and why did it fall off. As to motor that is up to how fast/hard you want to drive it but remember the harder you are with it the more expensive it is, the fastest motor I own is 19T and I havn't even used it this year, most of the time I usually run standard, sport tuned, GT, or Dirt tune, it depends on which cars I take out with me. My super sabre (basically identical chassis to hotshot except twin rear shocks) is alot of fun with a sport tune and in all honesty much faster and the 80's design suspesion starts showing its age. Cheers Hamish

I asked someone once and he told me it's a digital "screen" to tell traffic condition and other important communication from the police station. Can anyone varify that? VS Like a heads up display? Just need wings and weps and you could go all "topgun" on the bad guy