So, What Have You Done Today?

[Badcrumble 4201]

I'm not getting any RC done at home in the evenings at the moment so I've brought my M03 chassis to work. 

A few minutes with a scourer each day and I'll soon have it ready for reassembly.

[Grumpy pants 4465]

Well 9 year old daughters, Sand Scorchers and kerbs aren't a great mix 🙈

It now needs a front suspension upright....it could have been so much worse 😂

 

[firefoxussr 482]

On 2/2/2017 at 7:12 PM, IronSights said:

Nice day outside so I started painting some M chassis wheels.

(Just for those wondering, this will be a project with my second BSR MRage 4wd kit. I will do a Build thread)

 

After spraying painting a few rims and having the paint flake off,  for my Stratos build I went to dying white rims yellow.  Curious to know how it goes for durability.  The dyed rims work so well even in crashes the color stays.  Here's a pic before I kerbed the rims.

 

[svenb 3766]

6 minutes ago, firefoxussr said:

After spraying painting a few rims before I went to dying yellow rims.  Curious to know how it goes for durability.  The dyed rims work so well even in crashes the color stays.  Here's a pic before I kerbed the rims.

 

Nice stratos, is it a hpi body? I had one a couple of years ago on a mo4.

[firefoxussr 482]

2 minutes ago, svenb said:

Nice stratos, is it a hpi body? I had one a couple of years ago on a mo4.

But of course.  Cup Racer with Cross rims... which are way under-sized I might add.

[JennyMo 3526]

I slowed down the video of my MF-01X chassis Wild Willy 2 - nick-named the 'Nailer' - actually doing wheelies!

Jx

[IronSights 225]

44 minutes ago, firefoxussr said:

But of course.  Cup Racer with Cross rims... which are way under-sized I might add.

This is exactly what I am building.

But I am using a 4wd BSR MRage chassis.

Yeah I will see how it goes with the paint. But I don't plan on driving it crazy like.

[IronSights 225]

Finished the wheel painting.

Those huge liquor bottles come in handy!

 

[IronSights 225]

22 hours ago, iluvmud said:

Ok what wheels are those!?!?!!? I found a paint scheme for my Swift body and need a different set of wheels.

They are HPI wheels and they come in several different offsets.

[Grastens 2795]

Today, I reunited my tools from their distant hiding places and got to work overhauling my Avante!

My last memory of it was the motor threatening to detonate, so unless a 20T pinion is too much to run with such a Super Stock RZ, the focus became reducing driveline friction. The shock absorbers are write-offs, and the link pins holding the rears to the lower radius arms out back are well and truly jammed. Replacements might become an option if I really want to get it running in a hurry...

Incredibly, despite piles of molybdenum grease on the parts (the only grease available around here since ceramic grease is no longer stocked), everything came off with liberal amounts of dish detergent! The gearbox parts are the cleanest they have been since assembly.

The shell is definitely quite tired, and one day I hope to replace it. However, as the decals were actually what I had lying around at the time, I will not be replicating the current scheme in its entirety. But first, I need to get the mechanical components sorted.

As I was previously facing the notion I was leaving the hobby, I have no idea where my spare ball bearings went - or if I have any  But I hope to replace some of the metal-shielded ones in vulnerable areas in the car, as well as some of those which were inadvertently washed...

New Avante parts are far too expensive, given their collector status, so I will be digging deep through the spares I have and putting my engineering degree to use to effect repairs! Despite the headaches, I am happy to be at last working with my hands when there was concern they might never work again.

[iluvmud 812]

3 hours ago, IronSights said:

1 hour ago, IronSights said:

They are HPI wheels and they come in several different offsets.

Aren't they dyable too?

[Crash Cramer 617]

40 minutes ago, Grastens said:

Today, I reunited my tools from their distant hiding places and got to work overhauling my Avante!

My last memory of it was the motor threatening to detonate, so unless a 20T pinion is too much to run with such a Super Stock RZ, the focus became reducing driveline friction. The shock absorbers are write-offs, and the link pins holding the rears to the lower radius arms out back are well and truly jammed. Replacements might become an option if I really want to get it running in a hurry...

Incredibly, despite piles of molybdenum grease on the parts (the only grease available around here since ceramic grease is no longer stocked), everything came off with liberal amounts of dish detergent! The gearbox parts are the cleanest they have been since assembly.

The shell is definitely quite tired, and one day I hope to replace it. However, as the decals were actually what I had lying around at the time, I will not be replicating the current scheme in its entirety. But first, I need to get the mechanical components sorted.

As I was previously facing the notion I was leaving the hobby, I have no idea where my spare ball bearings went - or if I have any  But I hope to replace some of the metal-shielded ones in vulnerable areas in the car, as well as some of those which were inadvertently washed...

New Avante parts are far too expensive, given their collector status, so I will be digging deep through the spares I have and putting my engineering degree to use to effect repairs! Despite the headaches, I am happy to be at last working with my hands when there was concern they might never work again.

Hey there, can't promise much in the way of all the Avante parts you need, but I have found a few things here that are needing a new home and I have some spare small tubes of ceramic grease too so you don't have to use the evil Molybdenum(always sounded a bit like a product suited for comic books) grease.
Chris

[Effigy3 1267]

I built the JConcepts small racing bag tonight with the intention of using it for my TA07 and my sons TT02.  Well... it turns out that the drawers are too small for a touring car.    A DT02 and a TT02B fit, just barely.  So that's what's living in it now.  I have the larger JConcepts medium racing bag and the TCs fit with room to spare.  I have one more drawer than I need.  Who knows, maybe someday I'll have a 3rd on-road car for that extra drawer. 

[firefoxussr 482]

18 hours ago, IronSights said:

This is exactly what I am building.

But I am using a 4wd BSR MRage chassis.

Yeah I will see how it goes with the paint. But I don't plan on driving it crazy like.

Are you building a Stratos?  If so I'm curious if the M.Rage's front shock towers are too tall for the low profile nose of the HPI body.

I used to run the body on a Vaterra Kemora (now Losi Mini Rally), but knew ultimately I'd buy a Cup Racer for the IFS setup.

 

 

[firefoxussr 482]

18 hours ago, IronSights said:

Yeah I will see how it goes with the paint. But I don't plan on driving it crazy like.

lol you got me... i keep repainting my Stratos from it's kerb escapades.

[svenb 3766]

I dyed mine yellow, looked good too

sven

[Chilihook 51]

I designed a Big Bear rear axle sleeve that fits over the axle's hex nut, acts as a 40mm spacer and has a flange and a hex head to mount Tamiya's Suzuki Jimny wheels to. Keeping my fingers crossed that this will work! But knowing me, I got mt measurements wrong someplace...

[yogi-bear 2321]

1 hour ago, Chilihook said:

I designed a Big Bear rear axle sleeve that fits over the axle's hex nut, acts as a 40mm spacer and has a flange and a hex head to mount Tamiya's Suzuki Jimny wheels to. Keeping my fingers crossed that this will work! But knowing me, I got mt measurements wrong someplace...

nice work, happy to try and do a test print of it if you want.

[howaboutme 247]

Checked the status of this (I do it daily):

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&W=003120819&I=LXGJYC&P=K

Still no change..

For my AMG-GT3 #58639

[Grastens 2795]

On 03/02/2017 at 9:04 PM, Crash Cramer said:

Hey there, can't promise much in the way of all the Avante parts you need, but I have found a few things here that are needing a new home and I have some spare small tubes of ceramic grease too so you don't have to use the evil Molybdenum(always sounded a bit like a product suited for comic books) grease.
Chris

PM to be sent...

Today, I was set on continuing the Avante overhaul until I realized I had a Buggy Champ that needed work, and an astonishingly-futile search turned up my Striker; more F103 parts than I will ever need; and now an intimate knowledge of the whereabouts of everything but my Avante-specific spares. I even have a clean toolbox now!

At present, though, I do have a nice little queue of projects I can undertake

[stonedef 55]

Fitted a HPI Firebolt motor and MG996R servo to the Tamiya LB. And charged some lipo's for tomorrows bashing. And put the sport tuned motor back in the TL01

[Jason1145 3986]

Painted this in 30 minutes flat.... amazing what you can do in a hurry during your baby daughter's naps ;p.

[berman 5315]

I like the fade! Shame it's a bit uneven bit I am totally with you on what you can do when your daughter is down for a nap, that is the only time I have to myself haha!

[StrokerBoy 772]

Started my CW01 Unimog. It's a runner, tomorrow I'll start the body.

[Cooltoys 129]

Dusted a few of the sub projects.. got bored counted  how many are sitting around... Surprisingly it's quite a handful...