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Hey mr nice, My only breakage of the day and you managed to get it on video ( 28 seconds into the first video ) - nice work! Just a lost wheel nut from the Stadium Gator - looks impressive to see the wheel bouncing away, but it was soon back on track and in among the action again. I wouldn't show your insurance company the second video though - your premium may go up! Raffle was won by Simon - Smitchos - lucky boy walked away with the brand new Wild One kit.

Yes - also had a great day at the Tamiyaclub meet myself today. Been there - got the T-shirt! Great to put a face to many of the names which are familiar from the Tamiyaclub site and forum. Big thank you to Chris and his team of merry helpers - they've done a wonderful job today keeping us fed and watered. Thoroughly enjoyed putting in a lot of laps with various vehicles - the Lunchbox / Pumpkin race particularly was an epic!! If your hesitating about going over tomorrow then just grab a few cars and get over there - you'll have a great time. I know many of the guys racing today were coming back for the second day so you're bound to be in good company. Oh - and a big thanks to JWeston for reuniting Willy with his welly!!

Mardave Meteor.

The Blackfoot III chassis is effectively just a 2WD Wild Dagger chassis. The front gearbox assembly having been replaced with a "dummy" unit to presumably cheapen the the kit price. The bodyshell will fit just fine and look just like a Blackfoot III does. There's no issues there.

Do you know we've totally overlooked the TT-01 chassis as being ideal for this situation. There's an absolutely huge number of them out there, often as cheap as chips and ideal as a 4WD car park racer.

Try searching ebay for Tamiya Mini Cooper - I just tried that on ebay.com as I'm guessing you're in the USA and got at least one second hand M-05 Rover Mini. I personally prefer the looks of the genuine British Rover Mini to the later BMW Mini but if you have no preference there seems more of the BMW body shelled version about. Avoid the M-01 though - not nearly as tough as the M-03 ( I've never owned an M-05 to comment ). Your $100 very nearly pushes to a new kit too. Checking out the completed auctions shows quite a few Tamiya Minis have been sold through ebay recently - you may just have to wait a bit longer for the right one for you to come along.

You only have to pay a Royal Mail handling fee if there is a customs charge to be collected. No customs charge then no fee regardless of the size of the order.

You would be hard pushed to beat a Tamiya M-Chassis Rover Mini Cooper as an on road fun vehicle. Loads and loads of them on ebay at any time usually. Best avoid the M-01 chassis as it's too old now but you should be able to pick up a decent secondhand M-03 or M-05 chassis version for your money.

Correct - if there are no customs / VAT charges to collect then there is no Royal Mail handling fees to pay either. You shouldn't have any extra to pay on your small order. And Mr Crispy - if you've been incorrectly charged import fees then get in contact with the customs office that dealt with the import - contact details will be on the customs charge sticker attached to the parcel. It's not unknown for them to confuse currencies, particularly where customs declarations have been handwritten, but once supplied with a copy of the sales details to prove purchase price and currency they will correct their error and refund any monies paid.

For purchases of less than £15 in value there is no import VAT or customs duty to pay. Go HK and save the money if you can wait a few days longer for delivery. If you need it quick support Modelsport. reference the HMRC website guide for international post users, section 2.2 / 2.3: http://customs.hmrc....=HMCE_CL_000014

Thread-jack away mate - It's interesting stuff. Think I've found the wheels in use on a G.V. Predator truck as suggested so great information - cheers.

Excellent - thank you very much for the information.

Nobody else recognises them either eh?! I'm beginning to feel better about my ignorance now!! Size and tread pattern is similar to Lunchbox tyres if that's any help. It's a proper mystery!!

Can anybody ID these wheels / tyres for me. No hub markings - no tyre lettering - nothing to give me a clue. Blackfoot sized, all with 12mm hex hubs. Do you recognise them? What are they off? I'm tidying and they need to go !! Cheers Richard

Is that Shakespeare's Stratford in the heart of England? Did you find this place modelRCshop almost in the centre of town. You can practically see it from the Shakespeare theatre, behind British Home Stores ( BHS ).

Not necessarily a waste of time and money - atleast you can go back to the shop now and explain your problem. The charger you have is very basic and doing a quick bit of research is probably very commonly included in shops complete deals. It seems you may simply have a faulty charger. If the shop are half decent they should be able to sort it out no trouble. ( You might want to ask them how much to upgrade to a better charger though - A decent charger could have that battery pack recharged and ready to go play again in an hour. ) Don't forget to report back how you get on. We're your RC friends now!

That charger is a new one on me. Looks very basic - at those figures you would expect it to take about 5 hours to charge your battery with a charge rate the thin balance leads would be more than capable of handling. Your problem still seems to be the battery isn't charged and the cars electronics are doing as expected. Have you got any RC mates local? You really could do with trying someone else's batteries in your car to prove the car is working fine and then your battery on another charger.

It depends on your charger. Some can charge through just the balance lead connector but most require the main battery power lead connected to the charger to do the bulk of the charging. What charger do you have?

Quick thought. You are connecting up BOTH the main power lead AND the balance lead to the charger? Sounds like you might be trying to charge it just through the balance lead.

Sounds like your batteries have probably been sat unused for a long while and may benefit from being cycled a few times. Charge them up and run them flat a few times and you will hopefully see the capacity increasing. It's handy to use either a dedicated battery discharger or a simple load ( like a car headlamp bulb for example ) to do the discharging easily. I think there may even be a cycling option on the Imax charger if you investigate it. You should be seeing the charger read out up somewhere near the rated capacity of the battery once it's finished charging from flat.

Sorry you can't change it - once left feedback cannot be changed at all. And unfortunately it's ebay policy that the buyer has to pay the return shipping even if the item is not as listed. You could buy a set of wheels, the seller sends a pallet of bricks and you don't get your refund until you've paid to return the bricks. This is a nasty little fault with the ebay system. Larger sellers have the ability to get items shipped cheaper and easier than us individuals can ever do to return them. I've fallen foul of it myself ( also with a 1:1 wheel ), but am I still bitter?!?!

What do people think of the 3Racing Sakura Zero S? It seems like a decent looking touring car for but TT-01 prices. Could that also be a budget contender? Sakura Zero S

I'm up for this one - should be a good fun event. My GT2 entry form is already on its way. Just to clarify the classes. Any Tamiya 4WD on-road car will be suitable for the GT2 stock ( or GT1 Hyper-stock ) classes. So this is a great excuse for a day out racing the "toys" we love. Richard

Personally I'd say save the cash and enjoy the cars you've got. It may sound boring but there's no point building up a large collection of cars that don't get used. Until you know yourself what you want keep the cash. But if you must spend it then Traxxas Slash!

Not the bottom ones - wrong pitch completely. The Hornet uses an 18tooth 0.8 module pinion, but the difference between 0.8mod and 32dp is miniscule so 32dp pinions are compatible. From those suggestions it looks like the 0180 part number would be suitable.