Eastern Bash (Red Lodge, Suffolk)

[mymonsterbeetleisbroken]

Cool! my first eastern bash, can't wait!

I may bring my tnx if i've got room, but i'm planning to take the above advice and fill my boot!

[jozza]

Brilliant, looking forward to it already. I'll be bringing more or less everything - Lunchbox, Willy2, Gravel Hound (If I've got the electrics in), Twin Det, Ezilla, Monster Beetle, Pumpkin and maybe a couple of toy 'planes too.

[skip665]

So what are people bringing then? I will bring Lunchbox, Clod, Touareg, Thunder Dragon and perhaps my Mud Blaster if I get it fixed up before then. Only got 5 batteries though Will bring 12v quick(ish) charger just in case...

[Blacque Jacque]

If I can get it sorted in time, I'll bring a separate 12v car battery to avoid killing anyone's ride home.

I may also treat myself to a 12v 5amp charger

Got 5 1800mAh Nicad's & a *really* old Sanyo 1200 matched pack (which still gives top performance)

[skip665]

Good plan BJ I will see if I can get hold of one too...

[mymonsterbeetleisbroken]

Great stuff

I'll bring along my clod, txt-1 (but it will use up 2 of my batteries!), pumpkins, my old monster beetle, maybe my highlift or bruiser if someone fancies a bit of scale off roading?!

I could bring my tnx if anyone else is going to bring a nitro for late in the day.

I'll stick my bashed up thundershot in the boot too - someone bring a ramp!

[Mad Zero]

All sounds good to me - we seem to be on track for quite a major bash here guys, let's hope the weather either does nothing or something really interesting for us!

I'll be bringing all I can find/repair which (so far) is the Lunchbox, Wild Willy2 plus me new E-Firestorm (weirdybeardy and I just ordered a pair of 'em!) which will replace my old T4 for general bashing duties ...my new 'main' ride in the pipeline but is unlikely to materialise before the 27th. As for cells, mine seem to have suffered a year's neglect but are beginning to respond to me repeatedly shoving 5 Amps up them (with a 40mV peak), flattening them with a bulb then trickling them up again (this takes blinkin' ages with about fifteen packs all over 3000mAh btw!!) There's bound to be one or two totally dead packs - lesson learnt!

Strangely I'm having to do the same to coax 4 brand new 4350mAh packs into life for weirdybeardy - they seemed to perform with about half the power of some old 3000mAh packs I have? We're hoping enough cycling will bring them up to spec before the 27th ...if not I'm posting them all to Jozza because he actually understands all this electrickery stuff!

Someone mentioned 12v car batteries for charging - last year I got myself a 12v jump-pack off eBay for about 25 - it's got a tyre compressor, torch etc on it as well but the point is it'll run the charger(s) without trashing your car battery. Being a gel-cell in a funky casing it's a lot easier (and safer) than lugging a lead-acid jobbie about too!

[incidentally I'm having a big RC clearout at the moment so check my traderoom near the time because I can bring along anything of interest to save you the postage!]

[skip665]

maybe my highlift or bruiser if someone fancies a bit of scale off roading?!

I'll stick my bashed up thundershot in the boot too - someone bring a ramp!

I will be bringing my XC with a 55t motor so plenty of sloooowwww scale off roading is good with me

My Thunder Dragon is very beaten up too so a ramp could be a laugh!

[subsea84]

Im up for it. Only off-roaders in my collection at the moment are a sand viper, a thunder tiger ssk and maybe a thunder tiger eb4 if i get the engine running. both thunders are nitro though. but i have got loads of batteries for the viper.

[mymonsterbeetleisbroken]

I will be bringing my XC with a 55t motor so plenty of sloooowwww scale off roading is good with me

My Thunder Dragon is very beaten up too so a ramp could be a laugh!

excellent

i'll bring along one of the 3 speeds for some nice scale stuff, and a nice bit of wood to wreck the thundershot some more!

[Blacque Jacque]

OK, I'm pretty certain I can get the 12v battery sorted (120Ah!! ) so plenty of recharge power.

Looks like my mate from work should make it too, I really should persuade him to register on TC

[subsea84]

Had a word with some mates and there might be another 3 or more coming.

[mymonsterbeetleisbroken]

This is going to be a serious bash!

[Mad Zero]

This is going to be a serious bash!

...and you lot don't know the half of it!

[Blacque Jacque]

Better make sure there are some cameras too

[Mad Zero]

Better make sure there are some cameras too

Yes, very good point - lots of still & video cams, tripods etc - might as well do it properly and I can nail all the footage together afterwards if desired, then we can assault YouTube!!

[Bazman]

Well it looks like this is gonna be a decent relaunch of EB!

I have no idea what im bringing yet, other than my ramp.... obviously

That'll do.

[Mad Zero]

Hurrah! I knew he'd break cover eventually! He's been to more EB's than I have and carnage is now assured!

[Bazman]

I wouldn't have known if you didn't tell me lol

Carnage.... ill see what I can do.

[skip665]

My brother in law should make it too - only thing that worries me is the amount of crystals we will need to run at the same time!

I have Brown,Red,Green, Blue and Orange and my brother in law is on Yellow but I dont have any of the "inbetween" ones or a lovely Specktrum

[Blacque Jacque]

I have all 6 "standard" 27am sets, plus one or two splits, I will probably buy a full set of splits before hand just for completeness.

My mate says he may bring his tank which is on a fixed channel (don't know what yet, I ask him to check).

[skip665]

Right - just bought the following from eBay so should be sorted for 27th

Chan 91 26.865MHz Blue/Yellow

Chan 12 27.075MHz Red/Orange

Chan 87 26.825MHz Green/White

8 delivered for the lot - not bad I thought!

[Mad Zero]

Don't worry about running out of channels chaps there'll be quite a few on FM and Spektrum I should think - ..and I KNOW the tank will get a run becuase weirdybeardy will want one to shoot at with his!

[Blacque Jacque]

Don't worry about running out of channels chaps there'll be quite a few on FM and Spektrum I should think - ..and I KNOW the tank will get a run becuase weirdybeardy will want one to shoot at with his!

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT !!!

In the blue corner - Tiger Mk1

And in the red corner ?

[mymonsterbeetleisbroken]

I have no idea what im bringing yet, other than my ramp.... obviously

That'll do.

now we'll see how tough my thundershot is

i've got a couple of still camera's i can bring down for action shots.

I'll bring a tool box for breakages too

i've mostly got 27 mhz am, i think i've got all frequencies. I've got a couple on 40 mhz but i dont think i'll be bringing those, unless anyones interested in my 3 mph mammoth dump truck