OnTheTrail

Great info all! Thanks. I'll start to see what I can come up with.

I have a custom project I've been working on on and off for quite a while. While it's not a Tamiya, the axle stub portion is your standard 5mm OD so I'm looking to find a new CV axle/shaft just a little longer than this one as it has a tendency to come out of the drive cup at full droop and I think this is why the shafts are getting bent. I can limit the down travel but this is a rock crawler project so I'd rather keep the travel as much as possible. What measurement (from where to where) is standard for selecting these? From the edge of the cup or perhaps the part the bearing will stop at? Or some other measurement...???? Thx.......

How long will they be in the totes? If not more than a few weeks, I'd just remove the wheels/tires, wrap the car on the chassis with newspaper and place in individual totes. Set the tires on top of the newspaper and put the lid on. Go see your local mom and pop appliance dealer and get a few free dishwasher boxes and load as many totes that can fit in there. A DW box isn't much more than 26" wide so they can be manhandled and hand trucked through most doorways. Most (but not all) Tamiya models should fit into these: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sterilite-20-Qt-Clear-Plastic-Storage-Box-with-White-Lid/8282895?athbdg=L1600&from=/search

Since you're located in the US, I'd just recommend you pull the trigger and get a compact air compressor from Harbor Frieght. Two styles, each about $60 with another $12 for the starter accessory kit. By the time you bought a leaf blower and batteries or cases of air in a can, you could just get one of these. https://www.harborfreight.com/air-tools-compressors/air-compressors-tanks/air-compressors/3-gallon-13-hp-110-psi-oil-free-hot-dog-air-compressor-57572.html https://www.harborfreight.com/air-tools-compressors/air-compressors-tanks/air-compressors/3-gallon-13-hp-110-psi-oil-free-pancake-air-compressor-57567.html https://www.harborfreight.com/air-compressor-starter-kit-20-piece-64599.html If you're not already signed up with your email with Harbor Freight, do so and somewhere along the way you'll get a coupon for 10% off so that will bring the cost down. I've seen the accessory kit on sale for like $8 as well. You'll find yourself using this all the time for things RC and not RC related. Small enough to carry out to the car to top off that spare tire that you haven't check the pressure in in the past eight years! LOL. I have the previous version of the pancake style in my toolshed. Trouble free for about a dozen years or so.

I won an award from work that we could turn into a gift card. Only gift card retailer that I could use for RC stuff turns out to be Walmart. I ended up finding an aftermarket heavy duty servo saver for $9 a piece Looks like the Tamiya 51000. I was surprised when they showed up that the sprue inside is actually stamped "Tamiya". The packaging is generic and no instructions but it appears to be of good quality. On another note, I think I may have to look at this Walmart.com online options more. I also bought some shocks using the same gift card that came in last week. Turns out the were sold by Horizon Hobby through Walmart. They were the exact same price on Walmart.com as they were from Horizon, but the shipping was free through Walmart.com. Horizon would have charged freight.

Got some shocks in the mail today but other than that and maybe some tire foams some day, this one is done. While the body was pre-painted (which was nice) the decals could be challenging on this one. Have almost two full nights cutting these out and applying them. The blue stripes on the wheels I thought were going to be tricky and I left them for dead last actually went on super easy. Tricky to cut out quite easy to apply.

How much taxes are built in to these prices in the UK? £279 is about $352 USD. And per above, Horizon is showing it at $238 USD. $114 in taxes for what most would consider a toy car?

Looks great for a10th paint job let alone your first! Good luck with your window smoke. Here's three steps for window smoke: 1- Spray VERY light coats 2- Spray VERY light coats 3- Repeat steps 2 and 3.......

If the specs of the servo are capable of handling the maximum voltage from the battery, then the motor should be able to handle it on it's own. For a science project, Nikko could just find a battery with the appropriate voltage. Great idea on the servo tester @divot27 !

If you get into the servo and pretty much remove the electronic, you could just run the "+" and "-" battery current directly to servo's motor.

Just thinking about this the other day when emptying the trash can in my workshop after a recent build. I recall a lot of folks asking for more kits where the parts are packaged as blister packs. I recently finished up my Buggy Champ and I really don't care for them. Substantially more work than cutting open a couple bags of parts and dumping them into a container. Is it just for the nostalgia part that some prefer? Perhaps I could see this if the plastic formed parts blisters "easily" pulled off the cardboard......but the DON"T . Every one of them you have to get in there with an X-acto and carefully cut what appears to be a very robust plastic and try to cut it without cutting the part inside or the blade slipping and cutting yourself.

Did you fabricate those from suspension arms? They look fantastic!

Yeah, I probably should just mod the servo like you did or what I did on my SS. All my electronics are waterproof so that shouldn't be an issue. I think I was waiting for the BC for so long, I just wanted to get it built. Should be an easy enough mod though even after the fact.

My beloved 2S shorty pack isn't performing well as of lately so I need to purchase some new lipos. Any recommendation for what lipo fits in the SRB? The servo placement makes it an odd fit. A hard case shorty is even pretty tough to fit due to the overall height where the wire exit the hard case. I don't plan to do any racing with either of my SRBs so I guess I really don't need a hard pack at all.

.....and a few seconds with one curb to destroy....

Maybe they figured with both hex and JIS, it would be easier to remove them when caked up with dirt, mud at the track?

I did this on an ABS hard body for my Sand Scorcher and it worked very well in my opinion. Heck I might have watched the same YT video as you as that's where I learned it. Not a single case of paint seeping under the mask. Even where the tape seams over itself (usually the seep culprits for me).

Okay, what am I missing here? I've got 15 types of glue in my basement that should be fine for gluing two pieces of plastic together that will never see a significant amount of stress. Aren't we over thinking this?

Do you have access to the Yeah Racing shocks? I have several sets of the YR and several Tamiya mini and super mini and in my opinion, the YR shocks are much better. I'm going to be ordering a set of them for my upcoming TT02 build.

Different colors?

Finished the Buggy Champ this evening.

Maybe their wives told them they have too many RC cars and they need to sell some of them. "Okay, Honey. Got a lot of them for sale on eBay, hope they sell!"

The Flysky GT5 is actually a six channel transmitter (one of those channels is only on/off and another is limited to three positions) but it has a 20 model memory. Very good value and the receivers are very inexpensive too. Edit: Just noticed the i6 is a stick transmitter so the GT5 may not be what you're looking for.