Kingfisher

eBay. It's my fault. I didn't read the listing close enough. https://www.ebay.com/itm/4X-S3003-Standard-High-Torque-Servo-for-Futaba-Car-Plane-Helicopter-RC-Boat-US/162960654694?epid=18017071452&hash=item25f1364166:g:vlQAAOSwIWxatM4B

I ordered four Futaba S3003 servos and got some cheap low quality clones in the mail today.

Looks like it decided to go take a hike and said See Ya! It really veered off into the woods. Any idea why that happened? Any other damage besides that rear corner?

I did it on a set of tires when I was trying to use rubber for speed runs. It does work. The tires firm up stiff like he shows in the video.

You could try lining the inside of those tires with Gorilla tape to keep them from balooning.

Yeah, I looked for those extra parts and cannot remember where I put them at all, though I know I kept them. I'll look some more tonight. If I cannot find them, i'll just get another S3003 as I need one anyways for an upcoming RM-01 build that my girlfriend will be doing.

Thanks. Last night I turned the car on so that the servo would hold its position. I grabbed both wheels and slowly tried to turn them left to right, sort of like what I was seeing when it was under power. The servo saver is definitely flexing open and closed quit a lot. So, I think the power of the motor is fighting the servo saver. The only horn that I have that can attach directly to the servo is too long. It comes in contact with the sides of the chassis. I'm going to find a shorter servo horn and go forward from there.

Nope. As soon as I take the load off, everything spins fine and smooth. I don't know if the tires are balanced, but they're brand new. This was the first time I have ran them. Thanks for mentioning the tires and the servo saver. I'll run a horn directly and try different tires and see if I get any improvement.

The first time I ever tried to cook, I attempted to cook an egg without knowing how to do it. I cracked an egg into an ungreased fry pan, set the heat to medium, and came back 10mins later expecting this perfectly cooked sunny side up egg. The kitchen stunk horribly, and I ruined the pan because I couldn't get the egg off of it. I was 28yrs old when that happened. Don't say you cannot cook. If you can follow the instructions to build an RC car, you can build a healthy meal in the kitchen. Look up some recipes and follow each step. You could even try the cheeseburger method I mentioned above. Pile the meat on the burger until you know you'll be full. Cutting out the carbs will cause you to drop weight, and your stomach will start to shrink. You'll get hungry less and it will take less food to make you feel full. Just because you're limiting your carbs doesn't mean that you'll be limiting how much you eat, just what you can eat. I've also found cooking at home to be cheaper than ordering take out. I quit smoking the same way as you. Just quit and never looked back. If you can do that, you can change your eating style the same way. Plan for it. Start reading recipes and get an understanding of how to prepare them. Get the things you need to eat better. Once all of the bad foods are out of the house, you start. No going back. Hold yourself to it just like when you quit smoking. You could also get a George Forman grill. There's no wrong way to use that. Slap a piece of meat on it and when it looks done, it's ready. I've worn out 4 of those grills and am currently on my 5th. Also: Recently, someone offered me a cigarette, and out of curiosity, I accepted. I know I won't get hooked on them again, so I figured why not? It was the nastiest thing ever, and it was the same brand I used to smoke. I couldn't make it passed 2 drags before I had to go scrub the horrible taste out of my mouth. I couldn't believe how I got started in the first place.

I've read about and have been wanting to try another method called the Montignac method. I've only recently started reading about it, but am curious to give it a try once I learn more. Know anything about it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montignac_diet

I finally took it out for some speed run shake down passes. Just wanted to see how it was going to go and ran it on 2S, though it's capable of 3S. If I really ease into the trigger, it runs great. If I actually go more than half trigger, the front wheels start slapping back and forth like they're trying to rip themselves from the car and leave the chassis behind. They really fight against the servo at full power. I thought I cleared up a lot of steering slop by installing the aluminum steering rack, but that's not the case. Should I start shimming everything in the front end for really tight tolerances, or go with metal hubs and knuckles next? Anyone who's ever put a bit of power through a FWD Tamiya, what did you do to keep it stable?

My girlfriend is interested in a drone, and doesn't know which one to choose. I have no clue myself as this is something I have never explored, though I have seen frames to build your own on H-King. What are some good brands to look at, or where should she start? She wants to record video and be able to take pictures with it. As a first time flyer, should she get something to use as a beginner drone, or just go for the whole package and learn from there?

That's the exact ones I have. Even got them from Hobbyking. I still feel that there is a need for the heat shrink with those. If slid completely over the soldered connection, the heat shrink could still hold the wire in place if the solder joint breaks and could prevent accidental shorting of wires, or crossing both wires on a battery because both the positive and negative would be insulated.

19 ESC's, 6 batteries, and 2 chargers all swapped from Tamiya connectors to T-connectors. I forgot the shrink tubing twice and had to desolder to put it on. On the 2nd time desoldering, I accidentally put tension on the wire as I was removing it, and a hot drop of solder flew off and landed on my arm and burned itself in nicely. Removing it was worse than it landing on me. I'll never forget the shrink tubing now.

I can be in and out of the grocery store in 15mins. I hit the vegetables section and go right to the meat market for fish and I am out. Only time I venture deeper into the store is when I need oil or seasonings/spices. King Oscar on Amazon. It comes out to 2.81/can. I pay 2.51/can at the local grocery store, but have ordered from Amazon when I couldn't find them at the store. I usually get around 12-15 cans when I go to the store and have ordered 120 cans from Amazon once. https://www.amazon.com/King-Oscar-Skinless-Boneless-Sardines/dp/B01JZ3W0E6/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1531405180&sr=8-2-spons&keywords=king+oscar+spanish+style+sardines&psc=1 Here are the Season brand. I've only been able to find these on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Season-Skinless-Boneless-Sardines-3-75-Ounce/dp/B000HDJYWA/ref=sr_1_7_s_it?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1531405377&sr=1-7&keywords=season+skinless+and+boneless+sardines Michelob Ultra is a low carb beer, but it's still beer and slows down weight loss. 6th day now. Still sticking with it? How do you feel?

Thanks for posting. I now have a little better understanding of fasting. I just thought people were going without eating to starve the weight down. Still not something I am ready to try, though I have no problem going most of the day without eating. I generally eat twice a day. If I am working days, I eat once at 5AM, a can of sardines around 10AM, and then supper around 8PM. If I am working nights I sometimes eat less. Once at 2PM, sardines around midnight, and sometimes, but not always, eggs at 4AM. If I have the day off work, then I usually eat around 10AM, sardines or a whole tomato around 1PM, and supper around 8PM. Sometimes, not that often, I will eat 3 times a day, but usually that extra time is a large zero carb snack. It's a good thing to notice your stomach shrinking and know when to eat less to become full. Some people don't realize it, and still eat the same large amounts and complain that the diet didn't work for them. Now that I think about it, I don't even think I eat any sugar. I drink Arizona diet tea and water throughout the day. I don't drink coffee, so my morning ritual is a can of Diet Mountain Dew. Yep, you plateaued out. Gotta make a temporary change to throw your body back into cycle. Too much protein can do that to you as well. While fasting, have you had any issues with constipation? When you cut carbs, you definitely need the salt and water. I did an experiment where I cut out as much salt as I could while cutting carbs, and it was a big mistake. That led to me reading more about digestive health and getting on a daily bathroom schedule, training my body to empty itself once a day, and always immediately after waking up. If I don't go once a day, I feel sluggish through the day. When I do go, I feel more energetic. A new one for me and the first I have heard about it. I can sort of relate with my can of sardines a day thing. I could be dead tired and worn out from doing yard work all day (example), but when I eat that can of sardines, I get an energy boost and am ready to go back out for more physical abuse. The energy from the sardines is instant, like one minute after finishing the can. If you're not eating sardines, you should read about the benefits of sardines. I used to hate them, forced myself to like the worst ones, then found much much better sardines. I really like the King Oscar Spanish style sardines, and Season Brand Skinless/Boneless in olive oil. I'd suggest those two if you are questionable about the taste. The breathing method seems simple enough that I may read more on it and give it a try. I've done something similar when in a stressful situation, or when trying to steady my hands for photographing wildlife in a difficult situation, except I would take deep breaths over and over until I felt a difference. I get that you're flooding the blood with oxygen. My coworkers do the same thing. When they start in on me about my diet, I just tell them that I lost the weight and they found it. That usually shuts them up. Another thing I have found is that the ones who used to give me crap about dieting are now coming to me asking for help to lose weight.

Thanks. I'll see if I can find the springs for those.

I'm having trouble finding a set of springs for the WT-01. I've done the 4x4 conversion and have the tall damper stays. Everything I have tried so far is too soft for the weight of it. I'm using Tamiya oil shocks. Any suggestions for springs?

I'm not a doctor, nutrition expert, or anything like that. Take what I say for informational purposes only. I don't know your current health condition, and if you feel that you should consult a doctor before trying anything I say, then do so. This is the result of my trial and error dieting to better improve my health. I hope that the information posted here will be useful to anyone reading. In my 20's, I used to eat fast food 2 - 3 times a day. I didn't know how to cook and didn't know anything about eating right. I've not had even a bite of fast food or restaurant food in over 5 years. I make everything I eat from basic ingredients and avoid prepackaged meals. I choose not to own a microwave just for the fear of becoming a lazy eater. When I got into my 30's and started dieting, I began to notice how my body reacts to what I eat. Some things make me feel less energetic, some make me feel better. Here's how I went from 254 to 148. This wasn't in one solid run either. I first went from 254 to 160 and then slacked off thinking "oh, this next meal won't matter. I lost the weight, I can do it again". Then I kept doing that, eating all of the wrong foods, and went back up to 201. (Carrot cake was my weakness.) I really didn't like seeing that 2 on the scale again, and I then went back at it again, completely changing to a pescatarian diet and getting down to my current weight of 148lbs. When I first started, I kept this diet as simple as possible. 60 carbs per day, and everything I eat, I cook myself. The hardest part is knowing what you can and cannot eat, and having to read all of the nutrition labels when you go grocery shopping. Every piece of meat that I cooked, I cooked it on a BBQ or a George Forman grill. Here's some info from my notes from Round 1 of my weight loss. If you stay strict on this plan, you will roughly lose a half pound to a full pound a day once your body adjusts to the diet and starts relying on the stored fat in your body as a source of energy and not so much on food intake. Limit yourself to 60 carbs per day. 60 carbs may seem like you won't be eating much all day long and that you will be starving yourself. But, you'd be wrong to think that. Meats and cheeses have zero carbs. Eggs have 1 carb per egg. So, to begin where does that leave us? Meat, cheese, eggs. Hmm... Let me give an example of how my meals would work. For breakfast, when I would eat breakfast, I would eat about 3 to 5 eggs (cooked anyway you want them. Scrambled, sunny side up, etc..) Along with those eggs I would eat ham, sausage, or bacon. Top it off with cheese and salsa and you have a nice fulfilling breakfast. Salsa should have 1 - 3 carbs per serving. Unless you plan on drinking gallons of salsa don't even count those 1 - 3 carbs. For lunch and supper, I would eat a double cheeseburger. For the cheeseburger you will need low carb bread. Sara Lee and Nature's Own makes low carb bread that only has 9 carbs per slice and it tastes great as well. Sara Lee is my favorite out of the 2, but I still alternate back and forth to keep it from getting boring. So, lets map out that burger to give you an idea of it, starting with the bottom slice of bread and working our way to the top. -------------------------------------------------------- 1 slice of bread = 9 carbs. Meat, however much of it you can eat or want on your burger. = zero carbs. Cheese = zero carbs. Mayo, Mustard, Ketchup, etc.. has very little carbs per serving and I also do not count those, because like I said, we aren't drinking it by the gallon. Same goes for if you want to top your burger off with some onions, a slice of tomato, or a little bit of lettuce. So far we are at 9 carbs total, and add in that top slice of bread and you got an 18 carb cheeseburger. Not bad, and it will fill you up due to the amount of meat you choose to put in it. You can also go so far as to mix your hamburger meat up with salsa, onions, jalapeno's, mushrooms, seasoning, or whatever you want to put in the meat before cooking it. Buy different types of meat like, angus, turkey, etc.. That way your taste buds don't get bored. ------------------------------------------------------------ Ok, so for the day so far we have had 18 carbs plus the 4 or 5 from the eggs. That leaves us with roughly 33 carbs to go. So, whats for supper if you don't want another cheeseburger? Steak? Pork Chops? Roast Beef? You decide. Remember meat has no carbs, and seeing that you still have 33 carbs to work with, you can portion out a serving of vegetables or mashed potato's to go with your meat. Just remember to read the nutrition label on whatever it is you eat and portion it according to that. So what if you get hungry in between meals? You can snack on hotdog weenies, cheeses, lunch meat, beef jerky, pepperoni sticks, etc.. All have no carbs. If you want some chips to go with one of your meals, get pork rinds. Pork Rinds have zero carbs. I absolutely hated them at first, but I forced myself to eat them and got used to them. Jello has zero carbs in it and you can snack on Jello. Not Jello Pudding. Just regular Jello. Sausages are good too. Summer sausage with a slice of cheese and some horseradish sauce is GREAT. Sometimes, I snack on hotdog weenies and ketchup / mustard. After the 2nd or 3rd one, im not really hungry anymore and theres no carbs in them. Tuna, Spam, and other canned meats also have no carbs in them and can make a great lunch or snack. If you eat them for lunch, just make a sandwich out of the canned meat. Spam sandwiches aren't that bad. A Spam and egg sandwich is delicious. HEB (Texas grocery store) sells small boxes of Guacamole dip. It has NO carbs in it. I like to take little cubes of cheese and dip them into the guacamole as a snack. Foods you want to avoid and what to do about it: Candy, Cake's, Pastries, Waffles, Pancakes, Breakfast Cereals, Potato Chips, Ice Cream, Bagels, etc. are REALLY high in carbs. You'll get a good feel for what you can and cannot eat after you start reading the labels on foods. Above ground vegetables are generally low in carbs, and below ground vegetables are much higher. If you eat fruit, portion it according to the 60 carb rule. Same with vegetables. Avoid Fruit and vegetable Juices. They are high in carbs and low in actual juice. If you drink Cokes or Pepsi's, switch to Diet Cokes or Diet Pepsi's. Diet has zero carbs. Same goes for Diet Dr. Pepper and any other soda that is Diet. Water is also a good friend for curving hunger. Regular non-diet coke has around 30 carbs per serving, so if you drink alot of soda's, just switching to Diet will cut down your carb intake quite a bit. If you drink Gatorade, switch to Propel Fitness Water. Propel only has 4 carbs in it and also has vitamins and stuff in it thats good for you. Gatorade has around 32 carbs per serving. Stick with this plan and after the first 2 weeks and you will notice that your stomach has shrunk and it will take less food to make you full. Continue doing it for another week and you will start to notice the weight disapear. Continue doing it for a few months and you will notice that your clothing is now too big and your belt has worked its way from the last notch all the way back to the first notch. Like I said in the other post, I was dropping nearly a pound a day. (At one point, I was BBQ'ing 40 hamburgers at once, and then freezing them in portions for the upcoming weeks.) Just continue from there until you reach your desired weight. Once you reach that desired weight, increase your carb intake little by little until you get an idea of how much you can eat before you start to regain weight. Because everybody knows that after dieting and weight loss, it can come back. So, for example, we stayed on the diet until we reached our desired weight of 190lbs (only an example weight). Then move the carb intake up 15 carbs from 60 to 75. Stick with that for 2 - 4 weeks and see if you notice any weight gain, or continued weight loss. If you are still losing weight, add another 10 carbs and go for another few weeks with that. Continue doing so until you notice your weight going back up. I'm willing to bet that at this point, you'll be full before you get much higher in carbs. After I lose the weight, I noticed that I could eat 90 carbs per day and not gain or lose any weight. Seeing as how we just spent the last few months eating 60 carbs, that extra 30 means you have endless possibilities of what you eat. AS LONG AS YOUR PORTION IT OUT AND DONT GO OVER THE CARB LIMIT. Carbs are what gives you energy and there are some diets out there that say NO CARBS. You gotta have carbs. 60 per day is plenty. 60 per day was plenty when I was working all day in the hot sun. I never felt pooped out or out of energy. 60 is plenty. Any more than that and your body just stores it away as fat. Also, after your 3rd week of staying strict on the diet, splurge for 1 meal. Break that carb limit, and do it as your last meal of the day. Do this once every 3 weeks. Carbs do not count for THIS MEAL ONLY. The reason being is that it keeps your body and system on its toes. It doesn't let it get too adjusted to the diet. Just don't go overboard with it. After your cheat day, you're going to feel hungrier the next day. Your body is expecting all of those extra carbs you gave it the day before. Now that they aren't coming in, it's going to resort back to that stored fat. Now, you want a real shocker? Go look on the back of one of those Hungry Man TV dinners. 63 carbs!!! For just that meal!!! That's a heart stopper in a box there!! I did the above diet and lost alot of weight without exercising once. I just stuck with the diet and went to work. Round 2 of my weight loss. Then I slacked off, regained some of the weight and a year and a half later, I went back at the diet again. I kept the same plan of 60 carbs per day, but I learned more since then and changed a few things. You can stick with the cheeseburger plan above, or incorporate this into your meals as well. You'll notice that when I mentioned all of the meats above, I never once mentioned fish. I used to hate fish and never ate it. I also used to smoke cigarettes and stopped doing that as well. My taste buds changed when I quit smoking cigarettes and I realized that I really like fish. Google for fishes low in mercury if you want to go this route. I eat Salmon, Tilapia, Catfish, and Steelhead. I also eat a can of sardines once a day as a snack. (I can show you a picture of every can of sardines that I have eaten in the last 360-something days. Yep, I take pictures of my sardines as a challenge to myself to eat one can a day. My daily meals consist of a piece of fish, some spinach, white mushrooms, and a tomato. I really love Mediterranean and Cajun style cooking and have become quite the chef compared to when I used to eat fast food all of the time. A few nights out of the week, I eat 3-4 eggs as my last meal before bed. The eggs boost metabolism while you sleep. I often wake up the next morning feeling like I look skinnier than when I went to bed. I drink Olive Oil. I try to incorporate real olive oil into every meal. If I don't use it in a meal, I drink a cup. Do your googling about how to determine what real pure 100% olive oil is, and what the stores are selling you that is actually 80% vegetable oil with a tiny bit of Olive Oil in it. You'll know it's real Olive oil when you drink it, because it's got a peppery bite to the aftertaste when you swallow it. Real olive oil will also boost metabolism and help increase weight loss. It's also good for digestive health. Since the start of round 2, I have given up beer and bread. I've found that they slow down weight loss. (This is why you may have seen me mention gin in a few posts. Gin has zero carbs). Remember, Net carbs are advertising marketing gimmicks. Actual carb content is what you want to count if you want to lose weight. I don't work out, and I don't exercise. I'm too much of a busy person to be able to keep up with a weight lifting or workout routine. Don't set your goal too high. I didn't aim for 100lbs of weight loss from the start. I set small goals. The first one was 199. I just wanted to be below 200. It may seem like there's not much difference between 199 and 200, but when you're standing on the scale, self confidence makes the difference. From 199, I aimed for 180. Then, 170. After that, I said, let's see how low I can go. If I think of any more info, I will add it to this thread. If anyone wants info about digestive health and weight loss, I can give info on that as well. It's not all about what you put into your body. There's also the part about what comes out. Some things to google for more info from. Keto diet and Paleo Diet. Also, Dietdoctor.com has some great low carb recipes, but be warned. They follow net carbs, and it's easy to eat the wrong amount there.

I've seen enough wildlife documentaries to know that everything in Australia is deadly, including that water hose.

From XL T-shirts down to Smalls and Mediums. From Sz. 38 pants down to Sz 28-30. There were a couple others who PM'd me with interest after my last post, so I'll type everything up and make a new thread in the Off-topic section. I'm always looking for ways to improve diet and would be curious to hear more about what you're doing as well. It may take me a while to type up, but I'll tag those who were interested to the thread once it's made. Besides, the better our health, the longer we can play with Tamiya's. Edit: Info posted here:

Fasting... A word for Short Term Repetitive Anorexia. If you want to lose weight, don't starve yourself. What happens when you reach your ideal weight? You start eating again, and the weight comes back. Limit your carbohydrate intake. Carbs are what give you energy. Too many carbs and your body stores it away as fat. By limiting myself to 60 carbs per day, I went from 254lbs to my current weight of 148lbs. For a while, I was dropping almost a pound a day while eating cheeseburgers daily. If you want more info, PM me so as not to derail this thread.

I bet it goes for a bit more than the estimated 3.4mil.

This truck has some nice features.

Yep. I seen that Eliminator this morning after I read your post. I do like the idea of putting it on a Tamiya buggy. Thanks again.