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  1. £75? Treat yourself for the Bank holiday weekend. Happy to split chassis out for 45 with no motor or ESC
  2. Really quite a nice TL01 touring car. Obviously the body is rubbish but it still has bits like the wing mirrors and spoiler so you could make a repro shell sweet. Car is fully ball raced and has a few neat hop ups. Quick release GRP battery mounts Tamiya CVA replacing the stock spring dampers Light weight carbon prop shaft Carbon fibre chassis braces. 3 racing foam bumper (with comically small foam!) Comes with a basic standard servo, a Tamiya acto power motor and a Novak GT7 esc. There is no radio gear included. One body mount appears to be missing but they're easy to find. Pictures are here! https://imgur.com/a/TS7ncem I have it listed on FB for £140, TC £125. Priced based on completed eBay listings and taking into account there are some nice components in there vs a stock TL01. This is not the lightweight chassis or the long arm version. Offers very welcome.
  3. Bump! Putting a number on it shall we say 130 posted with offers still accepted for parts or a whole
  4. One of the red ones (that came with the relay reverse thing) has no product number but the other red is TSC 410S and the black is a TSC P-12
  5. Here we have a lovely box of junk lovely old ESCs and some brushed/brushless motors. To the best of my knowledge all of the ESC's are working bar the Sanwa one which is spares or repairs. I can't really test them so reasonable offers are welcomed. Any better pictures or questions about individual items just message me or comment here and I will do my best to give you an answer. Located in the UK but can send anywhere
  6. Hey all, Time and circumstances have left me needing a bit of cash so I have had to pull some of my toys out and listing them for sale. First up on the block is my "Doomerang" a gothed up boomerang with a combination 3d printed/carbon fibre chassis. You can see the build thread here: It's unique and obviously hand made so it's not exactly a pristine object. I'm by no means a great painter so the body does have a lot of flaws. I completely understand it's my baby so if you just want boomerang gearboxes (with nice proper thrust ball bearings!) and the guts that's fine by me but it would be nice for it to be worked on in some form. It has a tble esc and speed passion motor (with a sport tuned sticker tastefully fudged on) and a turnigy steering servo. It snuggly fits a short hardcase lipo (which has been storaged and cycled occasionally but it is a few years old now) It would be sold with the battery but no radio gear or spares. I can provide my STL files for the chassis and print spares if that tickles your fancy. Because it's an odball and I'm no longer up to date on what a regular boomerang would be worth I'm taking offers. Priority going to someone who wants to use it or tinker rather than purely strip it for spares but we'll see. Located in the UK, will happily send anywhere at cost or collection from the depths of Yeovil an option. PayPal preferred. Thanks!
  7. Pretty much any 2.2" truck tyre will fit. I used to run Schumacher ones from modelsport on mine (though I kept the stock fronts)
  8. If this is using traditional radio gear, a mixer and escs it's pretty straightforward without a gyro. Just change the end points, dual rates etc down on the steering channel to 50-70% and it'll be a lot less squirrelly with turning. I have to do this a lot with my combat robots to stop them oversteering without losing straight line speed.
  9. Hi, for sale is about a third of an original Vanquish. Long term project that has gone on for at least 18 months sat in its boxes without anything being done really. Just been disassembled, not cleaned or anything. If the pictures aren't clear enough please let me know and I can get some more for you. Located in the UK - does 30 quid sound too cheeky? Will consider splitting if there is something specific you need or want.
  10. Hey! I'm pretty sure it's still 260mm - maybe only a couple mm longer if so. I will have a measure up for you when my next project arrives. It just fell into my lap and I feel it would be rude not to snatch it up! A bit of a parts juggle and I can have one really pretty nice one and one to chuck around and play with!
  11. They're not really designed to have oil in them I think, so any sealing you may do may be slightly in vain. Can't hurt to try though. I had to use quite thick grease in mine but I liked it fairly stiff for loose surfaces.
  12. Excellent, thanks for the nod! Will check that out. Yes the front was a little bit of a mess. Once I've made a couple parts I can look at wings a bit clearer.
  13. Bullets directly to motor tabs yes? This works fine you just need quite a lot of heat. A bit of flux might help alongside leaded solder.
  14. So after a decent pause from RC cars I felt the itch come back and whilst browsing eBay one night I found a decent little gem in the form of this F102 (I think?) project. I was searching initially for pan cars as that's always really appealed to me, just having a flat plate chassis and hanging the bare minimum off it with but seeing this I was rather taken. I noticed a few choice parts, namely the Hi-Cap shock and the carbon chassis and pulled the trigger with a cheeky lowball that got accepted. Plonked on my desk I could have a better look at things and whilst its a bit grubby and well loved (much like myself) it is in very decent condition. Bodies and such are going to be a bit difficult to sort but that can be solved down the line with the holy trinity of Creativity, Patience and Money. The chassis is carbon fibre which is really nice to find - if I'm reading things right this was a hop up with the stock being FRP? It has some really hefty gouges and scratches which will need some attention. Someone has made a valiant attempt at sealing the edges of the CF with glue and I can only imagine they held shares in an adhesives company because it's been rather excessively applied. Better too much than too little though, I can sand it back and go from there. The screws are pretty much toast. Lots of road rash on the heads make me uneasy about being able to continue using them. Bit of spodge and residue here and there but it's a good base to work from. I have realised I am completely missing part "BP8" but I am planning to use the front profile as a template and cut a new one out from some spare 2mm CF plate. My first Hi-Cap! Just the one, mind! After always being priced out of being able to get some of these great shocks I'm very pleased to have one in hand. I do believe this was listed as an upgrade for the F102? I will strip it down and give it a once over but it feels really smooth and other than the rusted spring it is in great condition. It got better the more I found as it had the hop up aluminium motor mount and what looks to be a carbon drive shaft too! That I will know more about when I strip the back end and the differential (pretty crunchy) It came with a 15t Core RC motor which I feel is almost certainly too fast for this kind of car? I am honestly fairly tempted to go back to a silvercan or similar stock motor. On the fence whether or not to go try and find a 21.5t brushless for it but I do think I want to keep it as cheap and cheerful as possible. Happy to take suggestions for what would be a good F1 option - period or modern. My plan so far is looking like: - Strip & clean -New fasteners where appropriate -New motor & keep the TEU-101BK esc for cheapness and to keep some Tamiya on the car -Pick a body style and then start looking at wings - I have not ruled out designing and printing my own. - New battery, probably a 2s Lipo. either a short hardcase or a soft cell pack. What would be nice to know if there are any identifying features which would let me take a guess at what this car was originally. After a quick flick through all the F102 manuals nothing unique or identifiable jumped out at me. Still, should be a nice relaxing project! Cheers, Harry
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