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Someone here posted a pic of the 2013 tower overlaid with the original '89 FRP tower and the mount holes practically lined up so I guess the shape (and material) redesign was more for strength. As you stated, the ride height difference must come from the lack of the original lower BF8/9 shock mounts. The lowered ride height does allow the chassis to bottom on full compression I believe.
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I remember V. It was quite the big deal when broadcast TV was the norm. I wanted to see it, but it came on after my bedtime IIRC.
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Going way back. I was at the Maryland MARC RC show as a kid and saw one of the local hobby shop's booths had a Wild Willy M38 on sale for $90. They were getting scarcer and typically went for $120. I was still in the midst of saving my pocket money for a long time to buy my first Tamiya and probably only had $50 saved up to that point. My dad had taken me since my grandfather was hospitalized at the time and decidedly did not like the exaggerated proportions of the Wild Willy, mumbling something about it looking cheap and childish. No hope of a loan there, lol. By the time I had all the money saved up, the Wild Willy was gone from the shelves and I settled on a Lunch Box, which in hindsight, was a great first vehicle. Tamiya USA was selling that GF01 Monster Beetle TR thing for $165 a couple years back. I should have snagged one for my daughter to build. I should have bought one of those Associated Worlds cars when they were being sold off cheap too. A lot of misses had to do with timing. I saw the original Avante and Egress both being sold for $99 in the mid 90's but I was a broke college student. On the backside of that, as a struggling new home-owner, I didn't have money to be blowing on things like a Juggernaut 2 either. Nowadays, I'm pretty happy with what I have and don't really need anything else (until Tamiya rereleases the original Wild Willy that is, lol)
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Very sad to hear. He will be greatly missed here. RIP WillyChang.
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Tamiya Wild One Blockhead Motors Parts
Saito2 replied to kyoshofan223's topic in Re-Release Discussions
You swapped them side to side (which, in turn, flips them) so the shock mounting hole is on the top of the arm like @toyolien's example? When they are swapped/flipped like this, there is a clearance spot (visible in toylien's pic) where the arm dips down to allow clearance for the roll cage flange nut that is contacting the arm in your video. -
Tamiya Wild One Blockhead Motors Parts
Saito2 replied to kyoshofan223's topic in Re-Release Discussions
I think @RichieRich is correct. The arms need swapped side to side. That shock mount hole should be on the top of the arm. -
Its always been my theory that Tamiya, who had ridden the wave of the Clod Buster being the "biggest" for many years (until the original Kyosho USA-1 electric came along to match its size, but then Tamiya responded with the taller Bullhead), fell into that mindset with the Terra Crusher. "Think the T-Maxx is tough, boys and girls? Well check out how big our Terra Crusher is!"
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If I don't find it, I will try this route. @Twinfan is correct about its purpose. It fills the hole under the top cover and provides maybe 25% of the surface for the outer bearing race to ride in. The L2 is another example of the strange design issues with the car. There was no reason L2 shouldn't have been molded into the top or bottom cover (or both). There are numerous examples where is seems parts were "forgotten" or missed in the design process. Weird tiny parts like L2 were created to fill the gaps at best or at worst, Tamiya just tells you to stuff foam tape in a crevice left between two parts. Its a wonderful new design let down by a strange half-baked feeling at times. I know, lol. The logic part of my brain keeps telling me that. Thank you. That helmet was actually my grandfather's when he flew in WW2. I will recheck for the part tonight. Perhaps time away will yield more fruitful results. Thanks for tolerating my little rant. Edit: I found it! I found it! Thank you all for "giving me a shoulder to cry on", so to speak.
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I succumbed and bought a TD4 at a cheap price. Its been an interesting build up to this point where things took a sharp dive. The kit in question was about $100 cheaper than anywhere else. In exchange for that cheapness, I got a kit that wasn't packed well (basically at all). With no packing material and our lovely postal system, the kit came mangled, but at least un-punctured. I dealt with it and was prepared for it because of the inexpensive price. What I did not realize was all those nice reinforced plastic parts snap off much more freely from their sprues than the usual ABS stuff. As such, the roughly treated box had many parts loose, floating around in their bags. Well, I got to the front gear box L sprue and I can't find the very small "L2" part. Where it went and how I lost it, I'll never know. Buying a whole new L sprue for that one tiny part is like $30. I don't know if I can bring myself to do that. And so, as part of my own stupidity and cheapness, I will box up this half finished kit, put it far back in a closet and try to forget about my folly. One tiny tiny piece of plastic smaller than my thumbnail and I'm out $30. Like I said, one of those days.
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The TXT-1 story is an odd one. Its development starts with the failed Juggernaut trucks. Even if the Juggernaut name wasn't tainted by the defective drivetrain fiasco, the concept of a leaf sprung truck introduced in 1999, emulating 1:1 monsters from the mid/late 80's was actually mis-reading the market. It wasn't until Tamiya saw Kevin Hetmanski's truck based around the Jugg2 drivetrain that they went that direction. Hetmanski's truck he came up with is very close to the production TXT-1. Tamiya actually took it to Japan to model the production version after. There's a cool Youtube video on its history. The CR01 seemed very much like Tamiya was "getting in" on the crawler action in the market. Of course, only Tamiya could come up with something as interesting as the CR01, a crawler attempt for sure, but filtered through their own unique design-lens.
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The Vajra. Lets take the Avante series, yes, the Avante series, and make a racing(?) truck out of it. I can never remember exactly how to spell its name either, which looks/seems strangely like a naughty word.
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Kyosho Rocky re-re will it happen ?
Saito2 replied to madmickmalone's topic in Re-Release Discussions
I tried asking my Magic 8 Ball and got "cannot predict now". Kyosho seems to be putting out the heavy hitters in the re-re department. I'd love for them to start on the low to mid range plastic stuff, but as of yet, nothing. I want a Cosmo for some reason. The Rocky kinda sits in the middle. From what I've gathered, unlike Tamiya who mostly just dusted off the old molds, Kyosho seems to have redesigned their re-res from the ground up. Its probably a bit more work for Kyosho to bring a kit back from the dead. Fingers crossed though. -
Why do some of you prefer blister packs?
Saito2 replied to OnTheTrail's topic in General discussions
No, you're not alone. My wife is an avid recycler and its spread to me a bit. Biodegradables don't worry me too much but that big pile of plastic bags does. Blister packs could theoretically be stamped with a recycling number. Of course that would also depend on if the local recycler accepted that number plastic. Our recycler accepts so much less than they did 5 years ago . But, that's how it goes. If there isn't money in it, nobody cares.