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    What would you do? virus question

    in Anything not RC related goes here

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    I wanted to reply to this topic because I fix medical equipment. I'm in covid patient rooms almost daily. I'm not scared of it. You should not be either. Life go's on. Wash your hands a lot. Social distance for the good of others, but live your lives. I recently bought a stack of new RC's to keep me sane, or maybe I've gone insane... either way build more RC sheot!  :-)

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    GF01 question

    in General discussions

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    Howdy,

    What is the best way to lock the diffs on a GF01? I read about glue, putty, etc. I was thinking hot melt glue. Ideas?

    I was thinking hot melt glue would allow me to unlock the diff if I needed to later on.

    Willy Help!!!

    in General discussions

    Posted

    56 minutes ago, Shodog said:

    How easy is it to mount a Willy 2 body to a GF01 chassis?

    that's what I'm doing, a WW2 body on a GF01, and the FJ on the WR02, cause I WANT a 4x4 WW2!!!  :-)

    the GF01 will be here this week...

    TRX4 ?

    in Other makes

    Posted

    I got it fixed. But the problem wasn't the mode. It turned out to be the travel calibration. And I found out there's more than one version of this transmitter. So you have to know which one you have in order to find the right manual to do the calibration. Thanks everyone!

    TRX4 ?

    in Other makes

    Posted

    I tried the high gear and its the same, its on/off no matter where the throttle is positioned. So there's something wrong in the ESC, most likely not setup correctly. It doesn't sound like anyone else has had this problem which is both good and bad. If I can't fix it I'll just go brushless... Thx everyone!

    TRX4 ?

    in Other makes

    Posted

    Thanks for the reply @JennyMo. I'm a fan of your builds. I'll try driving it in high gear before messing with the ESC. I want to know if it has proportional throttle in high gear or if its only on/off like the low gear is. I'm not sure what that will tell me. But its more than I know right now.  :-)  This is my first crawler as I only collect Tamiya "Wheelies". 

    TRX4 ?

    in Other makes

    Posted

    Howdy, so a while back I purchased a TRX4 Blazer as I like the body. But I drove it for the first time over the weekend and its weird. Any of my Tamiya RC's have proportional speed control and will coast if you let off the throttle. My Blazer in low gear is basically on/off when throttle is applied. The speed does not change no matter where you put the throttle and when you let off it simply locks the wheels and skids to a stop, there's zero coast. I've watched dozens of crawling video's online of people slowly creeping up steep inclines with their TRX4's, yet this truck which was "preassembled ready to drive" is clearly not capable of doing that. Obviously I'm going to try setting up the ESC as it doesn't act like its done correctly. Has anyone else seen this before, or have experience with the XL5 TRX4?

    This old chestnut! Sport Tuned Motors - advanced timing or not.

    in General discussions

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    You can see the built in advance in the pictures from this website.  https://fiveeight0sixsix.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/inside-the-tamiya-sport-tuned-motor/

    But in looking at the pictures for a while I am convinced one could easily change the timing since the motors end cap is only crimped on. I bet if you had 2 or 3 to mess with you would trash 1 or 2 in order to figure out the best way to "recrimp" the end cap back on at a different advance. Which I believe its completely do-able. Unfortunately I don't own any or I would take on this challenge. My silver cans have a different style tab holding the end caps on than the sport tuned.

    Lunchbox - advice

    in Build Tips and Techniques

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    x2 that is normal

     

    I do something different on mine to remove a bit of the angle. I like to put a servo grommet on top of the shock shaft so that its located against the hex head on the shock shaft. It serves to act as a bump stop for the shock shaft during rebound. It will be pressed between the shock shaft head, and the frame when the shock is not compressed. It makes the steering, handling, and CG a bit better.

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