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If you're not stood on a wheelie bin at 4am drinking warm Kronenbourg and watching bikes or cars hammer through the pre dawn gloom, then you're not doing endurance racing spectating correctly...
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tamiya 47508 1/10 Porsche 956 coming!
EvilSpike replied to Mokei Kagaku's topic in General discussions
The only place I know of is L&L Models in Swansea. They look to have sold out of almost everything, but I assume they'll have more stock at some point in the future. -
TT-01 NIB Yeah Racing Steering Set For Sale
EvilSpike replied to EvilSpike's topic in Sales, trades & wanted
Can you message me your address please? Unless you're in Cornwall then I'll pop out on the mo'sickle one day when it's sunny. -
TT-01 Yeah Racing Aluminium Steering Set for sale. I bought this on fleabay bak in December 2022 it would appear at the same time as buying my TT-02 Type S chassis. The advert said TT-02, I didn't check the label and popped it straight into the kit box and life got in the way for a couple of years. Went to built the chassis over Christmas and noticed that it's not the correct fitment for the car annoyingly. So, anyone want a brand new, never used set for a TT-01 / TT-01 E? Say £10 plus postage which won't be much?
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Holy zombie thread alert Batman! I'm not quite sure why, but it took over two years for me to finally get the box of assembled bits off the top of the bookshelf and build this thing. It was a fun build, but for some reason I wasn't as in to it as the Terra Scorcher and Lunchbox beforehand. The build should have been quite simple, but I tried to add a few shims to reduce slop that didn't quite work, and although the ebay ad said the Yeah Racing steering set was for a TT02, it was in fact for a TT01 so didn't fit. I ended up buying a copy for the correct chassis that unfortunately also has slop in. After reading the RC Racer article which suggested using three hole pistons in the CVA's and the manual suggesting the one hole piston I split the difference and went for the two hole jobbies. There's a few carbon bits in the build, Tamiya cups and propshaft, and some aluminium Rays TE37 alike wheels with Tamiya tyres fitted. I'm waiting for some M3 bolts and some grub screws to come through the post before fitting the Fibre Lyte chassis upper deck and tidying the electrics. I have found however when running the car around the driveway it understeers quite badly when on the power then turns in predictably on a trailing throttle, but can often snap into oversteer when getting back on the throttle after the apex. The springs feel far too heavy for the chassis, even with the smallest preload spacers fitted I have zero static sag, which I'm certain isn't right? It's only got the stock torque tuned motor in there so I'm not pushing silly amounts of power through the tyres. Also I've found out that you shouldn't spent five minutes drifting it around the wooden floorboards of the kitchen with these OEM Tamiya tyres. Well, not unless you then want to subsequently spend half an hour on your knees with a rag, a bottle of brake cleaner and an unimpressed wife...
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This is one of the predominant reasons for the Syrian civil war. From 2006 Syria experienced significant and sustained droughts, leading to lots of farms failing. Communities that had existed for hundreds of years collapsed and the residents started moving towards cities in search of food and work. The Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad did little or nothing to help the regional governors and when protests started, Assad ordered brutal reprisals. Faced with the choice of starving in the countryside or being attacked in urban areas, much of the populace took up arms against him, understandably. The influx of migrants escaping war and famine into Europe is a direct consequence of climate change; Syria used to produce far more food than it consumed. The irony of the far right wishing to keep Europe as the preserve of white people, whilst simultaneously denying that the root cause of the migration exists is thoroughly lost on the likes of AfD, FN and in the UK the EDL/Reform/many Torys...
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Oh bikes can do that too. Especially when you end up racing them... Especially when it inevitably goes wrong...
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I work for Shell/BP/Total/Chevron/Petrobras/Petronas amongst others. They've collectively spent multi-billion dollar sums in the past decade downplaying climate change. It's very real, and the impacts are here to see, even if you don't wish to. For us in the UK, the current that brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico, along the east coast of the US and across the Atlantic keeps our island relatively warm. This current, the Gulf Stream that has been running since the last ice age is starting to show signs of fluctuating and predominantly slowing. For us that'll probably mean significantly colder climate, like that in southern Siberia or Alaska. I've (positioned the coring machine) that has drilled successive 9m long cores in the ice in Svalbard. You can see the dark layers in it which correspond with the industrial revolution, and a mass spectrometer will also show where airborne lead rapidly increases showing the rapid rise in the use of cars, and even where exotic metals such as platinum, rhodium and palladium increase through cars using catalytic converters.
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tamiya 47508 1/10 Porsche 956 coming!
EvilSpike replied to Mokei Kagaku's topic in General discussions
Also, for anyone vaguely interested, this is the video I was on about. I was wrong though, it was from 1994, not 2004 like I guessed earlier. Bear in mind that it was proposed that tobacco smoke was carconogenic in 1953, and then in 1962 that the link betwwen tobacco and cancer was established. -
tamiya 47508 1/10 Porsche 956 coming!
EvilSpike replied to Mokei Kagaku's topic in General discussions
Thanks for that, I'd not have spooted it without your post. So my kit has 4 x MC11 1150 bearings included in bag C for the front wheels, 2 x MB8 1260 bearings and 1 x MB9 1150 thrust bearing for the rear axel. The only thing I think I'm missing is the 3 x 1280 bearings as replacements for the plastic GB1 items in the above drawing. How strange that the kits are different? -
tamiya 47508 1/10 Porsche 956 coming!
EvilSpike replied to Mokei Kagaku's topic in General discussions
I can't see the video, I'm at work on a ship for a few weeks and the companies IT policy blocks any kind of video streaming. But ok, that's news to me. You learn something new every day! Which track was is shot at and in what year? I'll have a watch when I get home later. -
tamiya 47508 1/10 Porsche 956 coming!
EvilSpike replied to Mokei Kagaku's topic in General discussions
I don't think it is period correct, the Racing livery is a modern addition to an old car. Cars which are being used on circuit get repainted over and over again, either through shunts or thin aluminium or fibreglass failing. The photos on the linked to article are all recent photos because the 956 is pictured alongside a (thoroughly modern, hybrid powered) Porsche 919 Evo. I'm sure the rules around historic racing are somewhat different, I've a friend who works on classic race cars and he often posts pictures on our group chat. The company he works for maintains two Tyrrell P34's in Elf livery, and some Mclarens in Marlboro paint and something else in Skoal Bandit colours. These all get raced, and raced hard around circuits such as Jerez, Portimao and Spa, but I'm not certain it'll be televised anywhere except for on very niche channels on the internet. I guess ultimately, none of the tobacco companies are giving any money to these very rich individuals to race the cars, which will probably circumnavigate some of the laws governing sponsorship. I'm absolutely certain that Porsche would not have allowed Tamiya to sell the kit with Rothmans stickers on the side however, like Lotus wouldn't allow Tamiya to sell a Europa with JPS stickers. A company can't be seen to be contravening public health laws so flagrantly. In a slightly tangential subject, the very respected MotoGP journalist David Emmet (www.motomatters.com) has written an interesting article about energy drink sponsorship. In short Red Bull, Monster et al. currently sponsor every rider and team in the MotoGP paddock, and a huge swath of other sports. Unarguably almost every country in the world is suffering from obesity issues, in some it could well be considered a crisis. Although it's more noticeable in North America and to a lesser extent Europe, the vast number of premature deaths are happening in China, India and Brazil. High sugar drinks are a significant contributor to the problems and he believes that sooner or later the energy drink manufacturers are going to be in the spotlight, much like tobacco companies. His article deals more with the fall out from when teams in the paddock all simultaneously loose their largest source of revenue, but it might mean that one day the modern r/c models we are making and driving today with energy drink sponsors will have similar, vague wording and empty flanks where once bulls and claw marks inhabited. -
tamiya 47508 1/10 Porsche 956 coming!
EvilSpike replied to Mokei Kagaku's topic in General discussions
Predominantly it was European countries and Australia that pushed for the ban on advertising. Whilst EU regulators were firmly against the practice, many developing and middle eastern countries were quite happy for the practice to continue and to be receiving cash from tobacco firms. Saudi still had cars running Marlboro and B&H schemes for example, whilst at European rounds the cars were running the same liveries but with either the words removed or replaced. Damon Hill's Jordan F1 was still in B&H yellow and black, but the words Buzzin' Hornets instead of Benson & Hedges. It's worth pointing out that most F1 teams are based in the UK, and that in 2001 the British government tried pushing for an exemption for F1 tobacco sponsorship, unlike in other sports. I think after 2006 the European governments told the FIM that they'd not be allowed to televise the races if the cars were running tobacco liveries in other places. Soon after, most tobacco firms gave up sponsoring teams, with the exception of Phillip Morris which was still throwing money at Ducati and Ferrari, and in fact still are as far as I know. Any Mission Winnow advertising is still a (non burnt or chewed) tobacco product. BAT (British American Tobacco) also are still throwing money at McLaren with it's A Better Tomorrow slogan. Australia is a huge ally in getting tobacco sponsorship, in fact getting tobacco banned from screens and streets. Funny old thing, but countries with higher corruption levels seem to be the ones that are leading (and mostly) failing the resistance, presumably because it's easier for them to purchase individual politicians at all levels of government. Give it ten years and I suspect we'll start seeing the first of many deaths due to cancer or other lung related issues by users of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) or Heated Tobacco Products. The accelerants and suspension products in vapes are a cocktail of ingredients and we're already seeing people suffering with emphysema, induced asthma and the joyfully termed bubble lung. There's an interesting video on youtube from the archives of the Senate Committees of a session investigating the effects of tobacco and nicotine. I'm at work for the next two weeks and can't get to youtube but if someone can find the video and post it I'd be grateful. In it, the legal heads of the big four US manufacturers of tobacco all stand up individually in front of senators and categorically state "We do not believe tobacco is carcinogenic, nor is nicotine an addictive substance". This was from (I think) 2003, long after scientists had proven the link between smoking and cancer. -
tamiya 47508 1/10 Porsche 956 coming!
EvilSpike replied to Mokei Kagaku's topic in General discussions
Ask what might be a silly question, but do these cars come with a full set of bearings? I had a quick look through the box before I left home a week back, and I'm sure there were some bearings in there? I know that the cars require some softer springs up front, and possibly a different shock is advisable but other than that is anything else needed? -
tamiya 47508 1/10 Porsche 956 coming!
EvilSpike replied to Mokei Kagaku's topic in General discussions
Someone is after £268 plus £11 postage on a brand new one on eBay. I don't know whether I'm impressed with their business acumen or just think they're a chancing swine for flipping one. The latter, obviously. But it was bound to happen...