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  1. When I've had the money to spend, and I've managed to find them at a good price, TRF shocks were the go to for me. I've put Tamiya TRF aeration shocks in the most unlikely of places. A Monster Beetle, a Blitzer Beetle, a couple of actual TRF cars, an Egress and from memory an RC10. Finding cheaper shocks that work well and don't leak is always a challenge.
  2. I am sure there are quite a few that have got away, I just can't remember what they were right now. A few months back there was a Hirobo Tomcat new in box that was going for a good price and it sat there for ages. Finances were lean at the time though. When I fanally decided to pull the trigger, gonski. oh well.
  3. As a veteran of several of my RC cars doing burnouts on my table top or more often, my lap, I concur! I hope you kid is ok. It does well to remember that especially with modern lipo's and motors our cars can be putting out something not too short of the power of say a 4 and 1/2~5 inch agle grinder. That's my guess anyway, feels about the same in your hand.
  4. Funny you should say that about the Frog. The first clear body on a 1/10 RC I ever saw was a Frog in my regular hobby Store.
  5. This is just something I remember seeing wayyyyy back in the day. To the point that a vintage Ultima I picked up a while back was like this. I havent painted it because I can't think of a good way of protecting the decals while I spray paint it. Did you guys ever do this with your cars? Do you like it? Hate it? Have no idea what I'm on about? And do people still do it?
  6. Nope, I have wanted to build a Caterham 7 for years though. I just think it would be fun.
  7. I bought a DF-03 and a DT-02 for my sons when I re-entered the hobby. Both great buggies for people entering the hobby. After a couple years of ownership and relegation to the back shed, I resurrected my sons DF-03 (it was in bad shape). It got a no name (but quite good) brushless system, nice ally aftermarket shocks and aluminium shock towers. It's a good buggy. However I have to put something into the front shocks to limit travel as currently the front drive cups break after a while. I think it's from too much downward travel. I may get one myself eventually.
  8. I don't know how big your collection is, but in my case, I made a spreadsheet for mine (a bit more than 50 RC cars). This helped me keep track of the condition of all of them and which ones needed repairs, finishing or whatever.
  9. Great answers to this topic. I'm not an Engineer unfortunately. I was a Fitter Machinist for about 12 years. We are trained in basically the first few baby steps of material science. Likely the 101 stage that Engineers pretty rapidly move on from. Having said that, it is handy knowledge when designing parts. My usual go to is no sharp internal corners. Radiuses everywhere it's possible. That helps kill most points where cracks would otherwise form. Also, my printer is FDM, so that has to be taken into account too. Not sure with powder deposition.
  10. Just skimmed throught the thread. Nice work and some good ideas/products. When making RC parts using a 3D printer you definitely have to consider the direction you are printing it in and where the forces affecting it are likely to come from. The other thing to consider once you've designed, printed and fitted your new more robust part, is where the energy/forces that would have broken the original part is headed. By strengthening one link, how many others are going to break as a result? But we all know this.
  11. I honestly think 2wd cars feel a bit more nimble. 4WD are great, they pretty much go where you point them. I do think they are prone to understeer a bit, but that can be fixed by set up. You are less likely to spin out I think if you drive them right. Regardless of car you are driving, get into the set up of your transmitter, you can sort out a few problems by doing that.
  12. Stewpidy stewpidy steeewwpedy!
  13. Enh, I miss out on **** all the time. Probably a good thing as it's money I shouldn't be spending and storage is a real challenge atm. Also one other thing to remember, there will always be another, unless it's something exceedingly rare, time is your friend.
  14. Good thread. I guess it's nostalgia, an I always wanted one of those, I just want one of those others, and funnily enough, even though I never stop moaning about it, working on my RC cars. I guess in quite a few cases that has been restoring basket cases to running again, the acquisition is often cheaper that way, though often replacement parts aren't, and they are scarce. Perhaps I'm also anthropomorphizing the cars, you know, bringing them back to 'life'.
  15. Masked off the tiny roll bar section on a Falcon I've been meaning to get done for literal years. Just quickly, can you use the Tamiya acrylic paint pots on polycarbonate? For some reason I always thought you could. Or should I just decant a little from a spray can?
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