El Gecko
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Well, I don't know about current Traxxas models, or the Arrma brand in general, but what you've laid out (except the 4WD bit) is essentially why I've cobbled my old Sledgehammer back together: I needed something with bigger tires and higher ground clearance than a Blackfoot for bombing around in the woods and rougher terrain. It's also really easy to swap pinion gears on the Sledge (10T pinion!), and the Blackfoot only really has one gearing option.
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14 minutes ago, Mad Ax said:
mostly-harmless fun.
It's only "mostly-harmless" to the people making the jokes.
It all contributes to general negativity in the world, and as you've said, we could all do with less of that these days.
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15 minutes ago, simalarion said:
Hmm ok ElGecko time to move on now?
Trying to kick me out too? You wish. This is a great look for the forum, keep going.
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50 minutes ago, simalarion said:
Actually i have no idea what your actuall point is (if its anything clear at all upp in all this) and i do not want to know anymore
Apparently this needs to be spelled out for you.
Just because a group of people don't comment on these forums doesn't mean they don't read them.
You all seem to think that this is your own little bubble and you can say whatever you want about whoever you want. (It's not.)
My point is that you are disparaging "wives" as a group (women, by extension) with the simple existence of this thread.
Then you are attempting to defend and cover that up with flat attempts at "humour" and "get back to topic".
The topic was flawed from the start.
If you have felt the need to respond to my comments, perhaps you should ask yourself WHY you are so quick to defend bullying, of any sort.
What does my age, mental state, or place of origin have to do with my comments here? NOTHING. Yet many of you have disparaged ME in those ways as well.
Just as I said yesterday. The mob mentality of the thread has taken over.
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How utterly predictable, and sad.
But hey, don't let me ruin the party. You're just helping to prove my point.
I thought Tamiyaclub was a different kind of place, but now I see the true colors.
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59 minutes ago, Morinstal said:
Stop feeding the troll guys.
So now it's considered trolling to want a basic standard of human decency on a freakin RC toy forum?
Yikes. Seems I've stepped into the wrong sandbox.
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Hey geniuses, you can have humor without bashing. No one is saying take away the humor. I'm saying take away the bashing.
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11 minutes ago, Problemchild said:
I’m not saying people can’t read stuff
I’m saying that YOU don’t have to read stuff that you don’t like.
if you actually consider what this post is about it’s about us men who spend too much money on RC cars - I’m sure all the other men in the world will be along soon to moan at us for tarring them with the same brush
you are a laugh a minute mate
if you don’t like a post then report it and you can let the site moderators spend time making a decision.
sorry if my attempt at humour offends anyone and I certainly don’t mean to be disrespectful to you @El Gecko
JJ
Yes, I can choose not to read it.
I can also choose to read it, and choose to call you out for being an insensitive dolt.
The first one only benefits me.
The second benefits the whole forum (and the world) should you heed my advice.
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2 minutes ago, mud4fun said:
Yes, 100% agree, a certain group of people - namely all the female partners I have had in the last 50 years - who all exhibited the same tendency to think that men were a free money tree to allow them to avoid bothering with such things as actually getting a good education or working damned hard for 70 hours a week for decades or facing high work related stress levels or finance stress levels due to their total lack of understanding or appreciation for how much things cost (or rather not worrying how much things cost because the man would cover the costs)
I'm not tarring all women with the same brush at all. I happen to have have the greatest respect for anybody, regardless of gender, that puts in the same effort. My problem is with the 'potential minority' (Maybe I was just attracted to the wrong types?) who seem to think that they are owed a living because of their gender or wish to use their gender and its certain attractions to the male to take advantage.
Not sure who or what you are defending El Gecko? Surely equality works both ways? people who take advantage of others based on deep seated human nature and hormonal responses to gain a financial advantage are not acceptable in this modern 'asexual world'?
All I can say is that to console myself with my awful intolerance and utterly dire 'seen the light' maleness, I'm just pricing up a new Schumacher EVO L1.........
I'm not "defending" anything. I'm saying that this whole thread is wife-bashing, and the thread has now basically turned to mob mentality to defend itself.
Hardly RC-related fun IMHO.
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2 minutes ago, Problemchild said:
Then dont read it
Unless you know the specific guy’s situations then you can’t comment tbh
the ex wives are probably bashing their ex husbands with their friend right now too
Excuse you. Don't write it in a PUBLIC, INTERNATIONAL forum if you don't want it read and commented on. YOU are the one being disrespectful here, NOT me.
Re: different situations, freakin DUH. I even said in a previous post to NOT paint the whole gender with the same brush. HELLO reading comprehension.
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2 minutes ago, Problemchild said:
I think you are missing some of the humour in the posts
also I don’t think these posts are the reason there aren’t more female Middle aged Tamiya enthusiasts
Just like there aren’t an equal % of men to women over on the Michael Kors handbag sites (again that’s a joke)
JJ
There is no humor here. Just a bunch of overgrown children thinking it's ok to bash on a certain group of people. Well news flash, this forum is public and international. Your disrespect spans the globe. Congratulations.
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1 minute ago, mud4fun said:
It is mostly worse......
That is only your opinion. You had a bad experience. Let's not disrespect a whole gender on that basis.
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8 minutes ago, mud4fun said:
Sorry @El Gecko but you probably need to put your hands over your ears.....
Hello. I am not a child. It seems you need to find respect for people other than women as well.
Good job focusing only on the money aspect. Apparently I was mistaken. I thought a wife was for better or worse, no matter how much money you think they cost you.
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Wow, some of you have no respect. No wonder there aren't any females around here.
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44 minutes ago, ThunderDragonCy said:
There's isn't enough material to take it out to 10mm
Hmm, that's surprising.
3/8" or 3.75" = 9.525mm, which leaves 0.475mm
Divide by two and you only have to remove 0.2375mm all the way around which is less than a quarter of a millimeter.
You're saying there's not enough room for that?
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2 hours ago, ThunderDragonCy said:
No, they use imperial size bearings.
Would a 10mm O.D. bearing fit the 3/8" wheel hole with a bit of machining? Or perhaps a 9mm O.D. bearing with a sleeve?
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The force is strong with this one!
Blackfoots (Blackfeet?) rock
And so do Mongoose BMX!
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21 minutes ago, Robert5000 said:
Dear hivemind, what do you reckon the odds are for rc tyres leaving rubbermarks on granite? As soon as some scaffolding is taken down I'm looking to be the lanterne rouge for this postal series.
But I'm not to keen to leave skidmarks all over the place. Do you think there's any chance of this?Well granite is one of the harder rock types, so I'd guess you'll be fine, but the only way to really know is to do some recon and try it out before you commit to setting up a track etc.
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51 minutes ago, simalarion said:
Did you get screws with Torx drive heads or something else?
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Did you try a different (known, working) servo?
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12 minutes ago, TurnipJF said:
But if it isn't an issue for anyone else, forget I said anything.
On the contrary, I've completely destroyed the front tires on both my Grasshoppers doing postal racing, although they were fairly well-worn to begin with. So I get where you're coming from.
I'll be making a snow track for this one, so you guys shouldn't take me seriously. If everyone likes jupitertwo's layout better, I promise I won't be offended and will have just as much fun
racingtrying to race on it as the rest of you
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9 minutes ago, LeftyAl said:
@mud4fun is it worthwhile noting the discharge rate of the batteries? Regardless of battery chemistry, surely the discharge rate will have an influence on the acceleration, but will it translate to faster lap times?
For the speedway cars with lipo batteries, almost all of them have lead weights on the front to try and counter the wheel lift and help with turn in.
That's a good point, and something I have been wondering about for NiMHs in particular. Different brands advertise different discharge rates, but most of them match the mAh of the battery (i.e. 4200mAh battery is shown having a 42C discharge rate) which I can't believe is accurate. The few that don't are vastly under that--like 15C for a 3800mAh battery--so I'm not sure which value they're giving, whether it's a "peak" value or something like a "nominal" or "steady" discharge rate, or if it's a difference in measurement or something.
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25 minutes ago, TurnipJF said:
I like it, but to even out tyre wear, how about a crossover between the two closest-together cones? This would mean we go around the hairpin in the opposite direction to the other two turns.
I was thinking about the crossover too, but then we might as well just use @jupitertwo's suggestion prior to my modification.
It's a similar age-old dilemma when designing an HO slot car track--how to equalize the lane lengths without an overpass. It's impossible, just like equalizing tire wear, so my goal is to just make tracks that are fun to run on.
If tire wear becomes a big concern, you can always swap the worn ones to the opposite side after a few runs
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21 minutes ago, jupitertwo said:
Less complicated and quicker perhaps:
Unwinding chicane into a sweeping right handed before the hairpin at the end?
The thought was to slow the cars right down, then build the speed up over the lap.
I moved the markers around a bit... thoughts? Still on a 5x3m marker footprint.
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HW1060 shutting down
in All things electric...
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Gonna try adding smaller parallel capacitors at some point but I've determined that it IS the batteries and the ESC working together to cause the half-throttle limp mode to kick in, even with that giant cap on the battery leads. The NiMHs drop their voltage after the first (barely!) 5 minutes in low temperatures, and the ESC thinks something's wrong, so limp mode is activated. It's weird but on both cars with 1060s, sometimes if I reverse and then go forward again, it comes back to full power, but once it has started going into limp mode, it just gets worse as the battery gets colder and the voltage drops even further.
By contrast, I can drive my Traxxas XL-5 ESC in any temperature all day long with either battery, and it doesn't cut out, because I don't think it has a low voltage NiMH limp mode like the 1060.
Can I just unplug the Lipo/NiMH jumper completely, or will the 1060 freak out? I want to try to disable low voltage detection (and limp modes) of any kind before I build a capacitor array that may or may not work.