TheMidnight Pumpkin

I’m building another Clod Buster from scratch/leftover parts. I love building the regular kits. But building from a random pile of parts is 10x more fun!

So this is more of a rant than what I did today. But it will end up relevant. I don’t know about you guys. But I run my cars at a track where everyone runs brushless Losi’s, Arrma’s, and Traxxas. I show up and run one of my “antique” silvercan Tamiya’s, and generally it’s a wheelie. I’m always the laughing stock for owning and driving the RC cars that I never could afford in my youth. I get sick of the trash talking morons… So now I’m considering buying one of these and throwing a Castle 5700kv brushless setup in it to whoop some butts with a Tamiya!!! https://www.amainhobbies.com/tamiya-tt02br-1-10-4wd-offroad-buggy-kit-tam58717/p1460209

Just make sure you don’t lock the diffs on your GF01. It will drive like crap and do weird handling things like pirouettes randomly.

On Amazon they sell dedicated RC car tool kits for $100 USD or less. I bought the fancy gold colored ones and have not had any problems since. They have a weird name - globact rc tool kit They come in zippered enclosures and are super convenient to bring to the track. I’ve got nothing bad to say about them.

+1 quality products

I think in the old days (1990’s) Duratrax sold these tires for the Clod. I remember seeing them in the Tower Hobbies catalogs in my youth.

What did I do today? I learned a lesson! So I diff putty locked the front and rear diffs on my GF chassis Landcruiser. What I learned was it makes it drive really strange! So like typical wheelie fashion it bounces along at speed. But then one wheel will get traction and the whole truck will do pirouettes on one tire. It’s much more susceptible to flipping and spinning out with locked diffs. I thought swapping the wheels/tires out to wider chrome Willy rims with Lunchie tires would solve it. Nope. It is a tiny bit more stable. But it’s still strange to drive….

Yes it does. Thanks

Hello, can you help me identify this vintage nitro? Also, what year do you think it was made? note the weird E clip on wheels and clear diff covers Thanks

broke out the gold lunchie for a couple packs worth of fun!

I have a question. Do you think diff putty would stop the clicking, since it would change how the diff works as opposed to the printed gear box braces?

I'm building an EasyStar airplane.

I soldered up a bunch of Anderson "powerpole" connectors.

I only collect Tamiya "wheelies". I'm at 20 right now.

You beat me to it. The wheels I was trying to remember are these HPI 2.2 super star wheels. I have a dozen of these in black and they come with adapters which work on old Tamiya's, as a direct bolt on. I bought mine from Tower, but I did a quick search and ebay has several sets for sale right now. Tower does not show HPI in the listing... I suppose they stopped selling that brand for some reason. Either way now we know the brand so its easy to search online for them. Here they are on the HPI website https://www.hpiracing.com/en/product_category/W10S

I'll reply tomorrow with some more info on the 2.2 wheels for your beetle. I have some at home that are a direct bolt on for old Tamiya's without any wheel bearing drama. But I can't remember the brand right now. Hopefully I saved the packaging to get a brand name for you. But I know I bought them from Tower Hobbies.

I buy a lot on ebay and at Tower Hobbies. If you go 2.2 wheels/tires there's tons of assortment in that size. I prefer the Pro-Line brand. https://www.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/WTI0297p?C=CJ

I bid on a Tamiya Toyota Land Cruiser GF01 on ebay.

Ran a couple packs in the ole Jimny. The little guy is a lot of fun!

Read my previous post. I quoted my hospital, where I work at, and I quoted my local news in my previous post. I have no opinion about anything beyond my truth that I shared. Another tidbit of my truth, I just got my walking papers today because my hospital has lost 95% of its business since covid happened. I was given 2 weeks notice effective Monday from no business. We literally have 1000 empty rooms in the hospital because there's no patients to fill them. Here, covid is not what they claim it to be on the news. My hospital is empty and hurting for business.

I got my twentieth RC today ...I FINALLY got a Wild Willy 2!!! Since I will soon have a lot of free time I'm making it 4wd with a GF-01 chassis.

Today I got 2 bearing sets and some diff putty!

The hospital that I work at, covid is no worse than common flu. The people who show symptoms here generally already have health issues. The covid only adds to what they are already dealing with. Those with little to no health issues never have any serious problems from it. So based on my daily work experience, its all news media lies and propaganda about the claims of it being this "infectious killer". Our death rate is well below the claimed numbers said in the news. Here, those numbers are virtually identical to common flu.

Where did the headlights come from? I'd like to buy a set. Thanks edit - love it in green!

I just went through 40+ pages of youtube videos on the TC forum. I'm a bit burnt, but it was interesting...