So, What Have You Done Today?

[Willy iine 18804]

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I think with some color the thing would not look so obnoxious.. 

I will work on it some more tomorrow.  

The final version for now looks like this.. decided to remove the curve on the front leading ends as it was just not sitting right.. and added a low center lip for some extension and larger side slats (?).. 

Edited September 27, 2022 by Willy iine

[Mrowka 493]

Installed sway bars (front and rear) in my Optima Mid. 

Tested, still squirelly, nasty on-power oversteer. Tried reducing front camber. Not sure it helped.

[MadInventor 3884]

Painted my tractor Ford blue. Still work in progress, but at least now it's recognisable

 

 

[SupraChrgd82 1425]

1 hour ago, Mrowka said:

Installed sway bars (front and rear) in my Optima Mid. 

Tested, still squirelly, nasty on-power oversteer. Tried reducing front camber. Not sure it helped.

What does it have for diffs? Ball, fluid, gear/grease…?

[GeeWings 2830]

Looking good @Willy iine it will definetely add to it and make it less 'pedestrian'

Great work on the tractor @MadInventorthat's quite a build!

[Jonathon Gillham 4605]

The Durga finally lives. Its taken 2 months but I finally gave it a quick test in the backyard, and since I hadn't glued the tyres a tyre promptly came off and flew past me. I made a mistake in the slipper and got around to pulling it out again today. Its such a mission to get to, having to pull out the front diff too, that I sat down and looked at it and almost left it for another day. No idea what I had done wrong, as I just took it apart, put it back together and this time it all worked as it should. Maybe @Willy iine was sending me hope without realising it

[provdes 39]

I fitted the Savox servo to my Ansmann X2. It was super tight and the arm just hits the side of the chassis on the full lock left so might need to have it out and rotate the arm one tooth. It works super fast, the most precise steering I’ve ever had for sure! 
 

@Willy iine That front splitter looks great. It’ll need matching side skirts and rear diffuser next surely? 
 

reminds me of this Renault R5 concept I saw at the weekend. Would love this as a kit!

 

 

 

[lsear2905 1279]

So, I went to Sydney last week with the family - first family holiday in almost 3 years (I wonder why!). It was a road trip, which meant I could bring a couple of toys to entertain myself when everyone else was asleep or playing on their phones!

Monday:

 

Tuesday:

[GeeWings 2830]

5 minutes ago, provdes said:

reminds me of this Renault R5 concept I saw at the weekend. Would love this as a kit!

 

 

 

[lsear2905 1279]

Wednesday started with a trip to Manly Beach, and a trek to the 'Manly Wormhole':

We then headed to Fairlight Beach - this might just be my favourite spot for crawling I went to:

I finished off the day with a wander down to Bondi, and that was it for my crawling adventures! We drove back on Friday, but I didn't find time on Thursday.

 

 

[berman 5315]

Awesome pics, @lsear2905! Looks like you had a relaxing holiday!

 

Today at dawn I went up Mt Maunganui again (3 days in a row), then after a coffee treat, I went down the beach a bit and depleted 2 4000mah batteries in my raggedy old Lunchbox.

Then went home and got the DT03 going, and punted that around the garden. Think a faster motor, faster servo, and some better front tyres could be on the cards for that one.

:Edit:

Also a video of our truck meet last weekend...

 

 

 

[lsear2905 1279]

59 minutes ago, berman said:

Today at dawn I went up Mt Maunganui again (3 days in a row), then after a coffee treat, I went down the beach a bit and depleted 2 4000mah batteries in my raggedy old Lunchbox.

 

Thanks to Google I'm now very jealous: the rocks around Mt Maunganui look stunning (especially for a RC crawler), and what a backdrop!

[GeeWings 2830]

@lsear2905 it looks like you had a good holiday in Sydney, great photos too. 

[Mrowka 493]

20 hours ago, SupraChrgd82 said:

What does it have for diffs? Ball, fluid, gear/grease…?

Gear diffs front and rear, I think 10K in front, 5K in the rear. Fluid on both ends.

I also tried unhooking the rear swaybar.

[wolfdogstinkus 1893]

15 hours ago, GeeWings said:

Lol. I really want to see it. 

Anyone good with Photoshop?. Lol.

But I have the Volvo bonnet/hood, so it would look even more mad Max on the front of a motorbike.

[Ferruz 11701]

@lsear2905 sounds like good times! The pictures are beautiful, I really enjoyed looking at them. I love the one with the opera house in the background.

My 1:1 car needed to be washed, badly, so I gave her a well deserved clean yesterday afternoon. Involved in the process were a hose, lots of elbox grease, and a Mopar car washing kit I was given as a gift some time ago. Along with other products, this washing kit contained some fæncy tire cleaner foam which really did wonders on my daily driver's kicks. At this point, I thought I'd give the same pampering treatment to the Boss's rubbers.

I put on a bit too much maybe, but I think these old tires could use the extra moisture! 

Turned out nice, maybe a bit too nice now if compared to the scruffiness of wheels and body shell! The tires do feel rejuvenated for sure.

Edited September 26, 2022 by Ferruz
Forgot the second photo

[naturbo2000 1261]

Actually yesterday, but I got my Avante Black out for a run on the Racing By Post track. Turns out I forgot to threadlock a single metal-on-metal screw - the one holding the servo horn on... The run was cut short, but no damage done.

[naturbo2000 1261]

Also finished putting together my TT-02 Type-S rally chassis together. Some work to do on the cables, but the shell should be obvious from the wheels alone.

[tim.senecal 487]

I fried something in my lights while shortening up all the leads.  one minute the LEDs were working, next it was all dead.  so i get to spend tonight wiring up another teensy and led driver.  luckily, all the actual LEDs are on pigtails, so i don't need to do anything but unplug those from the dead board, and plug them into the new board.

[berman 5315]

9 hours ago, lsear2905 said:

Thanks to Google I'm now very jealous: the rocks around Mt Maunganui look stunning (especially for a RC crawler), and what a backdrop!

I'd be lying if I hadn't thought of taking the scx24 there. When I was still with my ex, I wouldn't hesitate to go there. But now that I'm single, I'm a bit dubious as a lot of cute women run around the base where the rocks are. 😅

2 hours ago, Ferruz said:

@lsear2905 sounds like good times! The pictures are beautiful, I really enjoyed looking at them. I love the one with the opera house in the background.

My 1:1 car needed to be washed, badly, so I gave her a well deserved clean yesterday afternoon. Involved in the process were a hose, lots of elbox grease, and a Mopar car washing kit I was given as a gift some time ago. Along with other products, this washing kit contained some fæncy tire cleaner foam which really did wonders on my daily driver's kicks. At this point, I thought I'd give the same pampering treatment to the Boss's rubbers.

I put on a bit too much maybe, but I think these old tires could use the extra moisture! 

Turned out nice, maybe a bit too nice now if compared to the scruffiness of wheels and body shell! The tires do feel rejuvenated for sure.

That's so cool. I regularly use Meguiars Ultimate Detailer on my rc's, and I sanded back my little 1:1 runabouts headlights the other week and am considering coating them in TS-13 Clear 😄

[lsear2905 1279]

2 hours ago, berman said:

I'd be lying if I hadn't thought of taking the scx24 there. When I was still with my ex, I wouldn't hesitate to go there. But now that I'm single, I'm a bit dubious as a lot of cute women run around the base where the rocks are. 😅

😄

You could use it as a conversation starter! Let's face it: how long could you keep your RC hobby a secret if you meet someone? Or just go when there's less people around...

[Willy iine 18804]

Yikes.. what to do with this huge gap.. 

EWH* engineering..  

Looks like the sills are okay.. 

*Eyeballed With Hope

 

 

.. now moving onto the rear valance.  

Final update for today.. go big or go home!   ..

 

Next up.. GT wing.. 

Edited September 26, 2022 by Willy iine

[wolfdogstinkus 1893]

27 minutes ago, Willy iine said:

Yikes.. what to do with this huge gap.. 

EWH* engineering..  

 

*Eyeballed With Hope

I usually guess once, cut 3 times and things seem to fit. 

Is this the first eyeball?. Or 2nd?

[Willy iine 18804]

1 hour ago, wolfdogstinkus said:

I usually guess once, cut 3 times and things seem to fit. 

Is this the first eyeball?. Or 2nd?

Usually 2 shots, but does not help when I apply cement to the wrong part of the piece being glued.. 

(currently waiting for mistake applied glue to dry..)  

Pops wasn’t kidding when he said I was dumb half a century ago..    haha!

[wolfdogstinkus 1893]

Glued your fingers to what now?