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  1. 1 hour ago, Robert5000 said:

    :D

    Is this the one? 

    https://www.mardave.co.uk/rc-cars/238-437-1390-detail

    I'll have to dig a bit deeper into this, from the look of the box this looks right up my alley and there's something really fascinating about a kit developed and built in Leicester. Should probably get one, if for nothing else as a show of sympathy and communion amongst the non-EU countries in Europe. 

    Yes that's it.

    I don't think Mardave are in Leicester these days - I think Norfolk rings a bell. Still of UK origin though.

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  2. 2 hours ago, Robert5000 said:

    Oh, wow! This is both exotic and fascinating! Some mild googling leads me to think it's origin is around 30 years back, is that correct? 

    Have you built it and ran it yet? Hmm this is tempting! 

    Built it?? Are you mad? 😁 No it's still in the box (be quiet @jonboy1).

     

    The Cobra was originally released in the early 90's. I think 92 or 93.


  3. 13 hours ago, Robert5000 said:

    Quoting the past here, but -what am I looking at? Must confess I know nothing about Mardave, but that looks absolutely brilliant! Is it a vintage kit? A re-re? Or is there actually a company of today giving the boot to the whole horrendous cab forward debacle? 

    I guess the answer to all of those questions is - Yes.

    It's a re-release of a vintage kit that includes some more modern updates.

    The kit can be built as a modern type, mid-motor chassis with a cab forward body.

    But it can also be built in the original rear motor, rear cab layout. The kit includes both the new cab forward body and one in the original rear cab design.

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  4. Spent half an hour or so supervising one of my boys (aged 7) repairing his Super Hotshot that got broken in the summer.

    One front upright needed to be replaced as the lower ball joint had pulled out and stripped the thread. Both front driveshafts needed replacing as well. One was understandably lost when the upright broke, but the other just fell out!

    For his first time "on the spanners" he did well.

    Only thing left is to reattach the bumper, which also came off in the same run but I had forgotten so hadn't ordered any screws.

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  5. Modelsport are always pretty reliable. As is Tony's Tamiya Parts.

    Never had any issues with MB Models either.

    Bought a couple of things lately from Racecraft RC and have to say the service has been fantastic. I bought my VQS from there because of a great price. Whilst chatting to Adie about the order I mentioned that my lad was after a kit to build himself but wasn't sure which. Adie made a couple of recommendations and when the VQS turned up he had included a bunch of Tamiya promotional stuff for him to look at.

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  6. 1 hour ago, jonboy1 said:

    I just had to write a scathing letter to the local council.....

    I decided that as it was relatively dry, I'd take the opportunity to take a couple of my cars to the local park. I unpack one in the car park, walk to the main gate, where I'm accosted by a little old lady:

    "You obviously don't realise that you aren't allowed to play with those cars here anymore!"

    "Excuse me?"

    "There's a sign there - they are not allowed here anymore."

    "Why not?"

    "A lady was walking her dog a while ago and someone had one of those things going around the bike track (there's a bmx pump track) and it scared her dog, which pulled the leash hard and pulled her over. She got quite badly hurt by it."

    What I said in my head differed dramatically from what came out of my mouth I'm pleased to say - but the letter I just wrote to the parish council was not so kind.

    Since when does someone getting pulled over by their dog become the fault of someone other than the person holding the dog? If that dog had escaped and hurt someone - does it cease to be the owners fault now? Is that the society we live in, where a dog has greater rights than a human?

    I'm sick of this world - I really am! 

    I bet they wouldn't ban all dogs from the park if somebody slipped on some dog doings, that hadn't been picked up, and hurt themselves.

    What if the dog had been ****htened by a bike on the bike track and caused the owner to fall, would they have banned bikes?

    Surely any dog owner with any sense of responsibility would keep their dog well clear of something like a bike track, would they not?

    I feel your anger mate.

    The country is going to the dogs, it really is (pun not intended).

     

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  7. 22 hours ago, jonboy1 said:

    I was reminded today, that I should stick to making shelf queens and not try to get them to run.....

    I'd recently rebuilt and refurbed a Technigold motor, which I decided to connect up to test before putting in my UberBoomer. Some glowing red contacts and smoke later I decided it wasn't quite right.....:unsure:

    Undeterred, I thought I'd tweak the tracking on the CR-01 as I'd now got that to have 4WS. There it was, sat on the bench behaving itself, then I just nudged the throttle slightly, upon which it crawled back an inch, then there's a lot of ticking from the ESC, smoke, before it fires off backwards at full speed, smoke pouring from the ESC. I manage to disconnect the lipo and throw the car outside where it soon stopped smoking and calmed down. Pulled the ESC from the car and found it has melted what i guess is the potting (black sticky liquid.) Never had an issue with it before - ran a treat only a week or so ago (it's a proper Hobbywing Quicrun 1060)

    I'm sticking to painting from now on - far less hazardous to my health and wallets' health.....:( 

    That sort of thing doesn't happen to them if they are nicely tucked away in plastic boxes 😜

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  8. First day of a half term holiday in Weymouth. Popped into one of the best toy shops I've seen for years - Howleys in Weymouth town centre.

    They had 3 Tamiya kits on display. Comical Hornet and Grasshopper as well as a Super Storm Dragon.

    All quite high priced compared to other places though. Conicals were at £165, Dragon was £145.

    Still quite tempted to pick one up though. As I forgot to bring anything to do once the kids are in bed. Mind you, I have no tools with me so wouldn't get very far with building anything!

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  9. 1 hour ago, jonboy1 said:

    Thanks! Yeah, I thought there should be, but as I've got the 2 ESC connectors joined together (minus 1 power lead) how would the programmer know to send the info to one motor to change the direction and not to the other? :huh:

    Ah yeah, I don't think programming would work at all with both escs connected to the programmer at once.

    You'll probably have to program each ESC individually. In which case, if there is a reverse rotation setting, you can set it for the ESC that needs it.

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