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  1. Used buggies for a mission of mercy, taking my son and a friend of his driving while my wife administered emergency amateur relationship counseling for the other kid's mom.

    Fortunately, Kyosho re res are tough. Came home with two adobe buggies. 

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  2. 4 hours ago, Pylon80 said:

    I was born in France and although in the 90's I was part of a small club with a cool runway etc I certainly did a lot of flying in farmer's fields.

    Now I live in the US; there's lots of space but the problem is if you trespass on someone's land just to use the air above the land in question... you get shot.

    Odd, and I live in a state that makes Texas look like a hippie commune by comparison. 


  3. On 1/19/2024 at 10:36 AM, Ray_ve said:

    Why cars?

    Well in the past I've made and owned many different RC models.

    Boats: Simple, not much moving parts. But a breakdown means wait forever until the wind blows it to shore, or strip and swim (don't ask me how I know).

    Hovercrafts: Noisy, terrible to manouver as you need to throttle up to steer not down to get airflow over the control surfaces, and the propellors proofed a finger trap (don't ask me how I know).

    Planes: You have to go to a RC fly club to fly, planes are not allowed everywhere. And it was difficult to master a 3D world. Flying not that much, but a controlled landing was an issue (don't ask me how I know).

    Helicopters: Noisy, needed a lot of adjustments, lots of fast moving finger chopping parts, need a fly club, difficult, can't handle landing upside down (don't ask me how I know).

    Tanks: Nice models, but limited in running potential as they are slow. But it's a good add-on when you make the main gun functional (don't ask me how I know).

    So back to cars: Nice and simple in handling and running because you can just put it on the street and go.
    The electro cars are very easy, just charge a battery and go. Not doing nitro anymore too much of a hassle.
    Breakdown? Just walk to it and pick it up. The simplicity of running the RC car is what does it for me.

     

    I don't know where you live, but I've never had a problem flying planes outside of a club. And I am pretty sure I don't need to be a club member to fly around my own house.

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  4. 20 hours ago, Pylon80 said:

    Really good topic and something I often dwell on.

    I see myself in a few things you wrote. But I would rather fly RC planes and helicopters than drive cars; only cars are infinitely more practical. You can walk to the park take the car out of your backpack and drive. Or you can stop on the way to work and pull the car out of the trunk and drive. So easy.

    One of the things I like about micro- and nano-copters is that I can fly anywhere, indoors if weather doesn't cooperate. 

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  5. I mostly fly helicopters. My little man wanted to be able to fly, but helicopters were a but much for a then-five year-old. 

    So he learned to build and drive buggies. He subsequently got a broken airplane which we fixed and he has become a decent pilot, but he still loves his buggies. 

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  6. 13 hours ago, Killajb said:

    I have a Novafox with a 14T brushless Tamiya sensorless motor and haven't had any gearbox issues.  Way too much power for this thing and on asphalt it can lift the front wheels off the ground accelerating.  I did use anti-wear grease when assembling the gearbox.  Granted, I do not run it much and certainly do not abuse it.

    FWIW my Fox is a wheelie queen. 


  7. Well, LiPos are pretty much what make electric helicopters a viable thing.

    Airplanes as well. When I was a kid, sailplanes were the only electric aircraft available, since they had the lifting capacity to haul the batteries and, being sailplanes  they didn't need a lot of power to fly.

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  8. I have five Kyoshos, four re re and one OG.

    None of the shocks leaked on any of them, ever, other than the one shock that I physically broke. I repaired that shock and it hasn't leaked a drop since. 

    This is why I am loathe to change shock oil or rebuild my shocks, since I don't want to fix what isn't broken.


  9. FWIW, my little man did a fair amount of the work on his Super Sand Dragon, as much as he could, and two years later he did probably 90% of the work building his Traxxas Slash from a kit.

    He tried to get his cousin to build with him, but the cousin got bored almost immediately. It does not hurt that my wife runs the house like maximum security children's prison.

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  10. I bought my seven year old Timmy a Super Storm Dragon, because it was the only kit I could find. The ESC that came with the kit came with proprietary Tamiya battery connectors, though. 

    My main concern was no LiPos, as Timmy's mommy is very safety conscious. Timmy enthusiastically built as much as Ihe could.

    Two years and many repairs later, he got a Traxxas Slash kit. He built that, probably 90% by himself. I did change out the proprietary Traxxas connectors for XT60.

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