lupogtiboy

Friday the 13th....hmmmmm!!! A bad omen for some, just another day for the rest of us! Friday - work til around 5.30ish, home for pizza, walk dogs with my friend, go to bed. I get a 45 min lunchbreak where I go into the shed at work that I'm taking over(!) and tinker around with a few RC projects I have stashed in there! Saturday - Up early, off to work. I'm taking my friends car as it needs a rear coil spring changing, I did the other side on Wednesday evening in the road outside my house, not fun! So putting it up on a ramp at work will definitely help! Then off to see my son, then fish & chips for dinner! Sunday - Off to Brands hatch for Tuner Fest. Lots of drift cars, time attack cars, and probably lots of Japanese tuned cars on display. Hoping to buy some model cars from some of the trade stands there, really looking forward to it! Only shame is my parents aren't going, so I'll only see my dad in the evening (it's Father's day in the UK!), but it was his choice not to go..... Hope you have a great weekend whatever you get up to!

TT-02 is now fully ballraced, thank you RC Bearings! The BSD Truggy I'm looking to sell needs a steering servo, as I suspect it has a broken tooth inside so the steering flops around a bit. I'm going to swap it out for the servo in the buggy and see if that works. The guy I'm trying to sell it too is expecting me to supply a new battery, as the NIMH packs it came with charge for about 10 mins, the charger says they're done, then they last about 2 seconds then die! Unless there is a way to revive them? I don't think I should have to supply a new battery for a 3rd hand rc car? Or am I wrong?

Massive Thank You to Neil for the TRF stand and the Avante Jr's! All arrived very quickly and very well packaged! This guy is a LEGEND!!!

JennyMo does it again, another amazing build with some incredible attention to detail! Absolutely stunning build!

Hello and welcome to the club! There are many helpful and knowledgeable members on here, it's definitely one of the friendliest forums I've ever been on!

Interested in one of the TRF maintenance stands and the 2 Avante Jr's, have sent you a PM! Thank you!

Saturday, I stripped down the BSD controller that wasn't working, found that the battery holder had some corrosion on the terminals, quick dip in some vinegar and a polish with a dremmel, and it's all working again, so I can now sell the stadium truck to my mate at work! I've also sold a Grasshopper 2 I was given as a project to another work mate with a manual speed controller, so happy days on that too! Hopefully today in my lunch break, I can make a start on fitting bearings to the TT-02.

Good news is the BSD cars both work, they just need new batteries as the 5000ma NIMH ones it came with are dead. My charger starts charging them, 10 minutes later says its done, I plug them in, one quick spin of the throttle and they die! So in the bin they go! Then all i got to do is get one of the controllers working again, and it can be sold on to my workmate. Next job after this is to fit bearings to my TT-02 Audi. Then buy a couple of new batteries and some more receivers and I'm almost happy!

It's been a LONG LONG time since I was able to post anything in this thread, but happy that I can! So in the shed at work, which I have kinda taken over(!), I recently built and painted a TT-02 Audi V8, I'm rebuilding a BSD buggy for use with some of the fellow RC guys here at work, I will be cleaning up and testing another BSD car, but it's a Truggie, to potentially sell to a work mate, and I've been having a blast running a Mini Lunchbox around the workshop! It's really got me back into RC after a long break, and also got a few more of them at work in to the hobby too! Though fellow members like @Grumpy pants have helped too, he's such a lovely guy and always seems to have something for sale to tempt me back into the hobby as well!

If I can find it, I bought a damaged one of these years ago with the intent on fixing it up, but my static skills are more lacking than my RC ones, so if you would like it, and I can more importantly, find it, you are welcome to using it for spares.....

THIS is definitely something I can relate to! I have a lot of stuff I badly need to sort through, finish or move on. My trouble is that I like owning things, even if I know I'll never actually use it, and then I feel some kind of regret that I've gotten rid of it! Stupid I know, but that's how my brain 'works'! However, I was down my storage container last weekend, trying to find my elusive new battery charger and a 2.4ghz radio set I bought 2 years ago, 2 hours of moving things out of the way to get to where I thought it was, I found it! Then I found a lot of other gems I'd forgotten I had! A new in bag Blackfoot shell, a Tamiya Nitro chassis minus the engine and front and rear diffs, some foam F1 tyres, a Citroen 2CV shell, a DTM Mercedes shell, a TT-01 rear ball diff, a Manta Ray rear ball diff hop-up set, and a load of other bits! Result! However, now I have to sort through the rest of it and sell it on. I should say 'no more until I've got rid of this', but I know I won't. But on the flip side, I've managed to get a few of the guys here at work into RC, so that's good!

I've sold a lot of my main lines now, though may thin out some of the premiums ones as well, I'd rather collect Inno64's, Ignition or Kaido House models now, they have a lot more detail and can in most cases, be taken out of the boxes and displayed. Having said that, I still have this lot in a lock-up! And I have about 4 more boxes full as well at home!

I was given a clone of a TL-01B from a work mate, it's identical apart from no Tamiya logos. It probably had the same shell as yours did at one point, but it had a monster truck shell on it when he gave it to me. Only advantage is that genuine TL-01 parts will fit straight on! Though if it was advertised as a Tamiya and it's not, I would be pretty annoyed too! I also have an official Audi R8 RC car that's made by a company in Germany called Hype RC, and this is a clone of the TB-02 chassis, right down to the gap underneath to fit a carbon brace. Seems it happens quite a lot. It's not just Tamiya that's restricted to clones. I have a Honda Civic Type R made by a company called Audley that's pretty much a clone of a Kyosho Mini Z....

Wow! That's awesome! I've always wanted to do a Generation 1 Optimus with his trailer, buy funds for a lorry build won't happen anytime soon!

I do like the QD range, small and tough and can be modded quite easily. I was given a QD Clod many years ago, the shell was battered and it didn't work, but I swapped out the electronics for modern stuff and bashed it around for ages. It now runs a modded Grasshopper rear axle and 540 motor, so it goes quite well! I also have a QD Blackfoot shell on a painted Clod chassis with all new bits, looks smart. I found a boxed Clod at a bootsale cheap thats in pretty good shape, and I think I have the Monster Beetle too. QD buggies are fun as well. I think I have 3, a Super Sabre, Thundershot that now has a EZ-Run brushless motor, and another buggy I forget the name of! I think somewhere I have a QD Ford Focus WRC that I was given, and maybe a Scooby? I haven't seen some of my RC cars for a while, so I forget now! These are looking great though, I do like the yellow shell. I have a few of the Playskool Big Foot trucks, they are very similar.