Daves956

be real careful with the little bitty mustang decal that goes on the front. I went through two decal sheets because that one was old and small and wanted to separate. It's looking good, I really like those DSs.

My best guess to any origins for the parts on this is that it's a pieced together chassis from an original owner that had several models in that family. I know there was a TA02, TFR414 plus at least one other similar to this one purchased in a lot a few years ago. I know where the TA02 is and I have the 414, this one wasn't sold on because it wasn't ever identified. There isn't a scratch on the chassis and what looked to be cheap plastic wheels turned out to be ali wheels with a bad glue job using mismatched tires. The used shocks make me think this was just the parts car in the lot but together enough that it could run.

Thank you It looked descent and as just a roller chassis worth 20 bucks

It has Tamiya shocks but beyond that. I can't figure out what it is. I know it has a bunch of hop ups so that doesn't help with identifying it either. Any help would be a good thing. Thanks

It's not perfect but it sure beats that hideous jeepish looking body.

I was looking for something different and settled on a sawback. The chassis is great and it runs well on a castle 3900 brushless. The body was truly hideous all shiney red so I dullcoated it and weathered it a bit. It's still truly ugly but not as bad. The 34 ford body and Warn winch will fix the ugly when that shell is finished. The little jar of lip gloss that came with it tastes really bad

Berman, thanks for the lead in or reason for this driver figure. I've seen a lot of different things for drivers to do but this one seemed appropriate. Signalling for a turn is my explanation, It needs work but I had to start somewhere.

I sold a car to a buyer in a country you normally avoid because of shipping issues and it went perfect. As a seller it's a good deal but the warning is probably better to be directed to the original packager. Make sure loose pieces are secured in some way, especially if they're small.

I was working on upgrading the radio set in a crawler and it dawned on me how deep into this hobby I've gotten. At one time it was a couple cars and radios for each with a few batteries shared by all. Now it's multi car radio sets and everything has it's own specific battery, What got my attention was the fact that I'm at 1/4 full on the new six channel 20 model radio and it took one day. There's a total of 24 channels in use so far over these 5 and I caught myself thinking an 8 channel might be needed soon. I used to think my hobby involvement was a bit too much but today just pointed out how far over the edge I've gotten...I can't see the edge from here.

Like this perhaps? image was copied from an Ebay auction, 5 bucks for it

All the Tamiya bikes are beautiful. This is Tamiya's picture of the last one I made. I prefer the liter bikes

I've been doing this sideways progress lately. For every positive move there's been an odd turn that came with it. I picked up a custom Axial sorta truck with a high lift body to make into a scaler. It looked good and I picked up all sorts of add ons for it but unfortunately whoever designed it shortened it up too much and nothing would keep a driveshaft in it. So I parted it out and sent the chassis packing. Meanwhile I picked up a an exceed crawler for a good price replaced all the electronics and it ran fine but the original body was hideous. None of the local shops had anything long enough for it. I'd picked up a winch for the High lift truck but that truck is gone, So I decided to put it on the custom truck with the TLT axles. This one had a mismatch on the 2 sreering servos and I decided to address that before the winch. I pulled the Hitec 130 ounce servos from the clod crawler and put them in and did up the winch. This one turned out good and has been run a bit to test it out. It's the Warn key fob winch and it's pretty cool. Ok, now the clod crawler got the 222 ounce Savox servos. It ran great but the added servo torque about tore up the steering. It needs the end points set to work correctly. Unfortunately it's on a tactic 400 4 channel radio that has no end point adjustment, so it's down until the radio gets replaced. One of the add ons for the first truck mentioned was a dig unit. The exceed is a axial clone so I tried the dig unit on it. It fit but didn't work. So I fit the axial gearbox, dig unit and MIP driveshafts for that first truck into the Exceed. Now it runs great but still too ugly to look at. We went out crawling the trucks and trail running too on Saturday for almost 4 hours. Had a good time but found a lot of the problems mentioned already. My buddy had a body that looked to fit the exceed, I fit it today and now I have a trunk for my junk and a roof rack too. At that time I got one of two mini sprint cars my buddy found. It needed shocks, tires, radio and a battery. I had enough bits and pieces to put it together today and it'll be one of the next ones raced. Sorry so long winded, but it's been fun and kinda productive in a weird way.

All joking aside, I was thinking about the NIB collectors since that's an aspect of collecting I never really understood. I realized I do that too in a sort of way. I have a couple of very vintage static Tamiya kits that aren't really on the agenda to build. I've built them before but don't have them anymore, it's a nostalgia thing to have them and know that if I wanted to build them that I could. There's a couple more I'd like to have and eventually will. I like knowing they're here is what it means to me....if that makes sense

Ok. I've got this really nice glass case with the shelfers in it. BT50, JPS and Kenny Roberts Yamaha. If I cross purposed that case it would be a good habitat for pet mice with something to chew on and use as a latrine. Sounds wrong to me

i'm not so sure about that. If I were to cut a hole in the top of all my cars and then fill them with dirt, plant flower seeds in them and keep them watered on shelves I think we all could agree that it would be just wrong.

Just as an example, a Fanuc motor manual is around 300 pages. Same is true for each drive type manual. Then you have a control manual that's a bit thicker and a connections manual a little thinner. So roughly 1400 pages of info on how it all works together. You also need a parameters manual that's around 500 pages and the maintenance manual at another 400 to tune them and keep them running. An overview description is that they are a closed loop system fed back to the control and monitored by an A quad B encoder. Command is output from the control and set by a number of parameters. The newer DC systems have a power supply that's bussed to all the drives and all of this is daisy chained with a fiber optic control and feedback network. A lot of the newer motor types have a mag or hal effect ring sensor in them for a second feedback or a rotary glass scale. I'm way off topic and going geek again but working on this type of stuff makes the RCs seem pretty simple.

Fanuc and Yaskawa went to DC in the 80s. Reliance was building two, three and four phase DC drives here in Denver back to the 60s. Back then they wouldn't fit in the back of your car but now they're smaller than half a sheet of paper. It's primarily Tesla's designs but improved on with miniaturization. What is considered sensored for an RC, Fanuc and Yaskawa now have controlled down to the arc second. You can tell the AC to DC difference by the color of the end caps on most of the industrial motors. It's still transistor driven and phase shifting technology. It's kind of funny that the newer Beta systems run at temps over 170 degrees with more torque and accuracy. I wonder if that will trickle down to the RC world? I'm a field service tech in the CNC industry.

The motor design is older than I am and DC power is DC power regardless of the battery. Electrical basics don't change, I've been working on real scale polyphase inductives for over 30 years now. RC motors and drives are just the miniature versions of what I fix for a living,

There's something new all the time I'd always figured the battery was to power the motor and the ESC was basiclly a switch to control it and sized the battery to the load not the switch. Interesting

Is there an original source for this formula? I've never heard of anything like this before

I have a runner in pretty much every catagory and some are dedicated to getting bashed. There are currently two hard bodied shelf queens as well. The BT50 and the first edition JPS both in a glass case. They'll never be run after being restored and I still appreciate just looking at them. I look at them as irreplacable and not in a catagory I'd actually run. Both are formula 1 cars that could never compete with the brushless F201 anyway. oops, just remembered I've placed the Kenny Roberts bike in there too. That's part of it as well, It's Mario Andretti, Nelson Piquet and Kenny Roberts and their rides. Some of my favorite drivers.

I'm absolutely certain that the open discussion of reproducing a Tamiya decal is still against the rules here. You can measure how big you want them to be and then use a tobacco companies logo as you will,

Is this one of the graphics? It's a public domain easily downloaded from the internet Same with this one

A friend and I took the scaler crawlers out today. Great little spot I found with a large rock area, river rock, water and a sandy beach. He brought his sorta axial custom and I took the super clod and the latest exceed to test out. He lost a nut and bolt out of the 4 link right away, after a while I broke a servo mount on the exceed. The dual steering and motor controlled clod just kept going, We both took turns with it and really pushed it hard. It was still going after 2 hours. It's kind of a new experience for both of us and next time one or both of us will bring along a few parts and some tools, it would have come in handy today. In the end it was just like going out 4 wheeling in 1:1s....... there was only one left under it's own power. Just happy it was the super clod.

For performance or lack of it, my vote is for the TT01. Too many things wrong with it to mention. For looks it's the buggies or to be more specific any of them with front shocks a driver couldn't see around. To me they just look stupid. I'm not a big fan of any body that reminds me of a used bar of soap with no lines or details. Most buggies have both those features