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  1. Posted

    your not alone i dont have or want facebook either and i even don't have a phone.. I grew up with out this stuff and can still live with out it know 

    i still love my tamiya stuff but i have scalled it all down to a zero these days due to the cost i have not brought anything rc related since the top-force evo re-re and can't remember the last time i used one of even touched them apart from dusting them

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  2. Posted

    that red looks like it is backed(base coat) with black.

    and kudos on using specialist paints i painted one of my trucks  useing their paint and cant not fault it tbh the 2k is fantasic you will need to get it sprayed in a day as it will tend to go of in the can after that

    i would never use tamiya paint again after my first truck i used tamiya paint the paint cracked all over and i can tell you when replaceing a truck shell and all parts it gets expensive at around 1/2 the price of the kit the car is also paint with kustom canz

    the finish on the truck is as from the can with out the need to sand or polish the 2k coat in any way it lays down that good

     

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  3. Posted

    On 1/17/2023 at 5:03 PM, Superluminal said:

    Thats why I thought it a shame to get rid of them and dont want to bin them. I'm happy to cover all costs inc' time if you fancy an attempt at repairing them? Otherwise they will just likely end up in the loft.

    i dont mind having a go at them tbh first of spread you fingers over the cone and gentle push done on it and see if you feel/hear any rubbing from the voice coil  if thats ok search the size of the replacement foams / or rubber ones if you can get them 

    this is the glue i use...https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1311&_nkw=t7000+black+glue&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=T7000+Black+Rubber+Surrounds+Repairs+Spare+Foam&_osacat=0

    this is for rubber surrounds....https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/402905366964?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D245061%26meid%3D0ef3ee661b4f4961a39b3bc3bb888b53%26pid%3D101112%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D163606714080%26itm%3D402905366964%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DDefaultOrganicWebV9BertRefreshRanker%26brand%3DUnbranded&_trksid=p2047675.c101112.m2109

    here is the foam surrounds some come with the glue also ....https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=foam+speaker+surround+repair&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=foam+Surrounds+Repairs+Spare+Foam&_osacat=0

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    19 hours ago, Superluminal said:

    I watched a couple of youtube tutorials and I sort of lost my bottle when he used a scalpel blade to start cutting out the dome piece in the middle of the cone. I didnt think i would have ever made a neat enough job of that to be able to fix them back properly.

    On the one in your photo with the pegs around it is that drying out? Looks like youve done a great job of those.

    yeah i know what you mean with the dust cone you can take that of to shim the voice coil to keep it central so it won't rub but you dont need to do that tbh i did the first time but since then i dont bother with that anymore

    i also watched u-tube video's from the place where i brought my first foams from (springfield speakers repairs) in the U.S.A but i tryed to order the foams for the memorex's bu they wont ship outside the U.S.A anymore

    and yes the one with the pegs all round it is to keep it down whilst drying as the foam tends to curl up so i found this method i use a great aid but for when its time to glue it on the cone you have to keep pushing it down until it stays flat. i have had glue bleed on my first time but on the 4 i recently did and the ones before that i was lucky with no bleed.

    the ones you took out will still work and prob sound better than what you have replaced them with but if your happy with the result 

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    On 1/14/2023 at 12:22 PM, Superluminal said:

     

    Is there likely to be any value in these or are they bin fodder?

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    tbh i would have re-foamed them its really easy to do infact the hardest part is getting the old foam of the cage and cone 

    i have done a load with my last lot being 4 15" subs 

    and these will be going up for sale soon as i dont need them know even though i was trying to buy these from my mate for 20 years and he finally gave in last year due to the foams and his other half i even said i would give him a pair back and he could put them in his snooker room but i think he dont want to upset the other half i would love to keep them but i already have a pair of realistic mach 2's that i like better

    shame i aint been on here for a long time as i would have offered to re foam them for you instead of replaceing them 

     

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  9. Posted

    14 hours ago, Ferruz said:

    Thanks for the kind words  @Willy iine! Unfortunately nope the tooth is not done, turns out I'm gonna need a root canal so for now it's just pain and antibiotics 🤕 

    As for playing the piano, that'd be my wife :D

    ouch.... but i know your pain as i have had 5 of them done in the past quite amazing though when you look at it unless you have to have them cap'd like i had to that is the worst esp with the temp caps they use until the replacement one is made esp if you have a filling on teeth above/below the afending tooth as i had a kind of shock from the temp caps used when i had mine done plus they keep comeing off also.

    hope all is fine in the end for you;)

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  10. Posted

    my son booked  car show tickets for today as it was a le-mans theme show but when we get there it was on a pub car park with only one le-mans effort their so 5 mins and we was done so we came away but about 5 miles away from their we kept seeing 80's style trucks going past us so i said see if there was a truck show near where we was and yep it was a a car museum so we ended up going their instead while we was their we went to a food van as we had not eaten and we looked at the menu and for a single slice of bacon in a bap it was just under £6 :o:blink: so we said forget that but ended up at the motorway services enjoying a burger kind instead :P 

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    11 hours ago, Thommo said:

      

    I think it was the late great Rick Mayall that used to refer to a "Razzle pair of jugs" and as an Aussie this was very funny once I eventually worked out what Razzle was !  :) 

     

    or was is wasso pair of jugs and was that in bottom that he said that?

    and your right he was and still is great in my eyes even though he is no longer with us

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  13. Posted

    5 hours ago, Tamiyabigstuff said:

    Can't beat a good quality piece of vintage Hi-Fi - most of ours was bought new in the mid 1980's and still works great.

    Take a look at the Techmoan YT channel for lots of interesting vintage electronics info - warning - it can be addictive... 

    i do watch techmoan videos and he has some nice stuff but a repairer he aint and he always says in his vids i have been watching a chap from canada for the past few years now called 12volt vids and i thought he was good until i saw this guy i have a few other stuff to give to him to repair also but he has told me their is a long wait atm but it will be more than worth it plus what he charged me for what he done in the video was really surprising.

    i tend to only buy vintage hi-fi stuff esp speakers 

    the pots surprised me how bad they was esp as i have cleaned then with servisol spray mind he does say the action of them was good but the pins was what needed doing

    hit sounds better also know 

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    so i have been searching for a repairer for a couple of years know to repair/service my vintage pioneer sx550 amp and a few months back i stumbled upon a video on u-tube and i thought the accent sound familiar so i managed to get in touch with him and it turned out he was local to me.

    after seeing how clean his work area is and all the machines and oscilloscope's he has that again look new i messaged him and he said i could drop it off to him.

    he made a video of it witch is great (for me anyway) esp seeing my amp took to pieces and repaired 

    some of the things i see him do just blows my mind like in his other videos he rewinds and power transformer and in my he silver plates the power switch contacts just amazing

    if that is something that flouts your boat go and take a look at it and some of the other ones he has done

    i already have the next item witch is a tape deck ready to go to him 

    the link is 

     

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    Been to see my mate for the first time this year and while I was there he asked me if I wanted his speakers he don't use anymore and since I gave been trying to get them for over ten years the answer was YES please then he said how much he wanted for them and i nearly fell through the floor at £10 each i quickly loaded them into the car :D. Best thing is i was with him when he purchased them back in the Early 90's from the main tandy warehouse that just happened to he a mile from where i live. They will need the subs re-foaming but that's nothing to me know as i've done a few now just gotta find 4.. 15" foam surrounds these will go with the realistic mach 2 i already have :rolleyes:

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  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, GeeWings said:

    Finally got around to putting together some Yeah Racing shocks

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    and fitted them to my GF01

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    And then cleaned the decals off the old Jumbo Van shell

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    I’m hoping to get the electrics finished over the weekend and get it out for a test run.

    loving the arches :wub: home made? plus love the colour also

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    On 5/13/2022 at 11:15 PM, Wooders28 said:

    Never realised how difficult it was, to buy a car horn...

    I wanted something that sounded,  commanding ( if you know what I mean), but not air horn shouty, so looking at reviews and listening on YouTube,  I went for the , hella supertone.

     

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    Fitted and tested and wasn't overly impressed, which was kind of confirmed, when I received a message off my wife...

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     So, I've a pair of ,Piaa snail horns to test now....

    train horn train horn TRAIN HORN:D you wont get a text like that again plus when fitted ask the wife to come and listen to how it sounds:lol: then just as she gets there let rip and she how far she jumps

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  20. Posted

    49 minutes ago, bavee said:

    Trimmed the Stadium Blitzer bodyshell:

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    Applied the decals:

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    And then placed the bodyshell on the chassis:

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    The hood is sitting a little low for my liking. But boy is it pretty?!

    Need to upload some higher quality images because these aren't doing justice to the bodyshell.

    Afraid to run it now... :unsure:.

    if like i have in mine and you put a brushless setup in that it will make it a wheelie machine and trash the shell in no time at all

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  21. Posted

    23 hours ago, InsaneJim69 said:

    Well ATM I am away to start work at 6pm, I have a few buses to inspect at work that are overdue. Then me and the wife are child free tomorrow as the sister in law takes them all for a sleep over 😁👍.

    Then tomorrow afternoon when they are gone, we are going on a trek to look at a wee toy for myself in a Renault 5 GT Turbo Raider Edition. Completely standard and in soft restored condition, pretty much as the picture below. 👍 

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    Have always wanted one when I was younger but never had the chance until now. So sod it .... 👍😋

    Then Sunday will be a chilled day watching the Moto GP with some beers and a dram or two 😉

    James.

    the unicorn  a raider i have drove a few of the little pocket rockets in the past and seeing they are only a 1.4ltr they do shift

    plus as you say its in a unmolested state for me that makes it all that much better 

    buy it and enjoy it 

  23. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Mad Ax said:

    @87lc2 that SMT chassis is a thing of beauty, what a steal!

    If I was deciding on a truck name, I'd call it "Altered Carbon"

    agreed what a great name esp if you have seen the series on netflix only the first season though 

    for me i had a load of autoglym cleaning stuff this week and one of them is a ceramic coating so i may give it a try on my recently recommissioned 1.1 car 

    so that may be all i do over the weekend 

    and my son and grand daughter will be down on sunday and staying for a few days as its his b-day in the week

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    so i managed to do a bit on my 1.1 car on sunday in between the rain

    then monday me and my son mostly my son got the car ready for for the garage ready for the MOT did all the service stuff and cleaned it checked the lights and the rear offside indicator was not working and after we found out how to take the light cluster out i pulled the bulb and it was not gone so cleaned it and popped it back in and it worked so put that back together then i was resetting the one touch windows and the rear window regulator clip broke and the glass dropped and the noise it made i thought the glass had broke but luckly not so the good old bodge with a piece of wood came into play and ordered a new one plus a repair kit just incase .

    so took it in today and left it with the garage when my son came back from work he checked on line and said it passed:D with a few advisory's witch will be sorted before i take it back 

    really cant believe it passed seeing how long it has been sorn

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