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    Are you a twister or a cutter?

    in General discussions

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    Great thread! I like these pointless threads that everyone can relate to.

    I usually go at the box with kit inside with an axe, then use a floor sander with coarse grit pad on whats left over. does this seem heavy handed to you?

    [:P]

    (Twister then trimmer really)

    You are treating it with a Kids glove.  I first put the entire kit in a garbage compactor and than drop it in my kitchen sink grinder to remove all the rough edges.

    Is a great topic which may not be important but it does effect the results.

     

     

    Dont forget to coax the kit box open with a crow bar, for decals a garden hedge shears will do the job in half the time........Oh and one last tip, when applying decals make sure you have just eaten ribs or atleast handle them so yours hands are nice and greasy to smudge on the adhesive when applying

    troublesome hobby shop

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    ...people bring there cars in for us to clean them, this is just a total lack of care and they really shouldn't have the model if they dont even keep it clean, this is one of the best incomes we get though for me spending ten minutes wiping off a car we charge €50, partly cause it's **** work and partly cause if people see it as too expensive they might do it themselves!!

    wow, you can charge that much for a RC car clean?? [:^)]

    That's better $$$ than a 1:1 hand car wash, I smell opportunity! [:P]

     

    We charge so much in a hope it will deter people from getting us to clean it and to do it themselves, plus there are many more important jobs that could be done rather than cleaning some ones car but if they insist on giving us money to do it, then we will, it's is easy money at the end of the day, saying that though we never charge for labour on car repairs only what it costs for the parts!

     

    I would sway that 80% of the cars that we sell

    are thunder tiger nitro trucks and although they are very good quality

    and and last very well we would love to sell more kits but bairly

    anyone wants to biuld a kit no matter how easy it is.

    I

    think the problem is that for the same price as a complete setup on an

    electric car you can get a redy to run nitro car that they bring back

    to us to fix.

     

    I agree totaly, in the last year i'd say there has only been five people that came into the shop looking for an actual kit to build, unfortunately we can never find a suitable model kit because the very limited amount of kits that are available these days are mostly pro race cars!!! If we could we would happily stock tamiya kits in the shop because they have such a good range of kits but because the guy who run the distributorship for tamiya in ireland is such a muppet, he doesn't want to bother with the r/c kits and if we did want to get them through him it would be at a massively inflated price so he would feel it's worth his time. Thunder tiger stuff is good from mid range up, the cheaper models i felt were a bit naff, but thats just me!!!

     

    troublesome hobby shop

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    The thing that I never understand is that they stock nothing of any use to anyone (oh look, another nitro truck), then wonder why no-one buys anything. ...

    Supply and demand. If you don't supply there is no demand!

     This is one problem we had in the shop i work in earlier on in it's existance, Although in truth it wasn't really a problem of getting the wrong parts but more a case of people were just flying through these parts in no time and we couldn't keep up with them and were be let down by our distributors alot with most orders taking the best part of a month to come in and most of the time they would be missing many key parts. When the shop first opened we mainly stocked thunder tiger and since then had been through a few different manufacturers and distributors trying to find good product which was readily available, It has only been since august of 2005 that we had found a good brand with a solid supply and nowadays this brand is our main stock will slowly become one of the only brands we will stock. This is a problem with some shop, they supply so many different brands that they cant readily stock the parts that are needed because it would just require them to hold so much stock and most of which would be dead weight.

    he also has plenty of extra work repairing these RTRs as the owners don't have a clue about the simplest of jobs such as replacing a broken wishbone (no kidding!). This includes ones bought elsewhere by mail order that still need to be kept running so there is still a need to have a local hobby shop.

     

    This is one thing which really annoys me, when people come in and expect us to carry out the most simple of jobs for them, now i understand that when you are new to the hobby that it is a bit daunting taking apart your model but we still have people who come in that have been customers for years to get us to replace driveshafts. The one which annoys me the most though is when people bring there cars in for us to clean them, this is just a total lack of care and they really shouldn't have the model if they dont even keep it clean, this is one of the best incomes we get though for me spending ten minutes wiping off a car we charge €50, partly cause it's **** work and partly cause if people see it as too expensive they might do it themselves!! I'm going to stop ranting now, because i could go on forever but we dont want that do we.....

     

    Matt

     

    Techie joke - Ancient communications networks

    in Anything not RC related goes here

    Posted

    After having dug to a depth
    of 1000 meters last year, Scottish       scientists found traces of
    copper wire dating back 1000 years and came       to
    the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network 
         more than 1000 years
    ago.


    Not to be outdone by the
    Scots, in the weeks that followed, English       scientist dug to a depth of
    2000 meters and shortly after headlines in       the

    UK newspapers read; English
    archaeologists have found traces of 2000       year old fiber-optic cable
    and have concluded that their ancestors       already had an advanced
    high-tech digital communications network a     thousand years earlier than
    the Scots.

    One week later, Irish
    newspapers reported the following: After digging 
         as deep as 5000 meters in a
    County
    Mayo bog, Irish scientists
    have found     absolutely nothing. They, therefore, have concluded that 5000 years
    ago, 
     
    Ireland's
    inhabitants were already using wireless technology.
     
    Matt 

     

    Are you a twister or a cutter?

    in General discussions

    Posted

    I usually go at the box with kit inside with an axe, then use a floor sander with coarse grit pad on whats left over. does this seem heavy handed to you?

    [:P]

    (Twister then trimmer really)

     

    No not at all just be careful when using the sander when wetsanding i have lost a few shells from just leaving the body that split second too long on the sander[:D] 

     

     

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