So, What Have You Done Today?

[Busdriver 6668]

Lipo safety 🧯☢️🦺🥽 very important. Vented to allow any gas etc to escape.

More updates from the bus garage ( now retired) coming soon. I have been doing stuff for the last 6 months but not much by Mr T.  A lot of altering/adapting RTR stuff!!

[silvertriple 4224]

7 hours ago, silvertriple said:

I did a short trip to Vosgienne Vintage RC event yesterday... I've put everything in place and my lipos are going to storage mode currently. As usual I'm sharing few pics of the event (there might be even some vids later on)...

A small video which allows to sense the track we used

Vosgienne Vintage RC 2024 - Runs 1/5 (youtube.com)

[Mouc-RC 918]

Today some RC laser cutting:

'Cause when you put a SuperStock BZ in a CC-01, temperature get high

 

[skom25 2630]

Ran XV-01 for the first time. It was more than excellent.

Issues? It gets dirty the same as cheap TT-02 :/ 

[Sgt.Speirs 1625]

Not today, but yesterday. I finished the body shell for my Astute201 (TRF201 in Astute design).

[BuggyDad 6592]

3 hours ago, skom25 said:

Issues? It gets dirty the same as cheap TT-02 :/

Dirtier. It's a rally car - it's meant to be dirty! 😜

[Tbird232ci 405]

I nabbed this DF02 as part of a big lot on Buyee a while back. It was mostly clean and mostly complete.

My main target was the electronics. I was going to swap the receiver and do a wire tuck.

And then it exploded.

Now it's in the ultrasonic cleaner.

[TurnipJF 10946]

I had the day off today so was hoping to get a few ERBP runs in with my TC-01 CLK GTR, but the weather had other plans as it rained on and off all day, so instead I ran the RBP track with my rally cars. I doubt any will make the podium overall, but the highest wet lap count may be within reach. We'll have to wait and see!

[skom25 2630]

On 9/22/2024 at 3:01 PM, Busdriver said:

Lipo safety 🧯☢️🦺🥽 very important. Vented to allow any gas etc to escape.

More updates from the bus garage ( now retired) coming soon. I have been doing stuff for the last 6 months but not much by Mr T.  A lot of altering/adapting RTR stuff!!

NiMh? Dude, ancient technology. Go for LiPo, they are totally safe.

< Puts packs into Ammo Box and leave it in Bunker>

Sorry, but I always laugh a bit when I read that LiPo are totally safe and then see images like that  It is totally not about you. More like general statement.

[guggles 367]

@skom25 haha very true, but lipo is probably safer for hobbiest than any other demographic because they understand the battery. Atleast we dont use them in electronics that go on our laps and right next to our faces.... oh wait 0.o 

[skom25 2630]

Hmm, I am not so sure. Electronics you use, have hardware/ software methods to keep battery on safe level. Using LiPo in RC, you need to control this manually. 

[Hypoxic 812]

Finished the « HIS » version Neo Fighter today. Ready for some good, clean competition in the garden. 

 

[BuggyDad 6592]

I made lots of progress on my heavily modified Boomerang project today. Essentially it's a runner now, with just a few bits to tidy up. 

 

It's got a homemade (CNC cut out of GRP sheet) chassis I designed, M-05 steering, loads and loads of bracing for strength including all suspension pivots, dual front shocks, CVDs all round and a slightly amended body position. It seems to drive pretty well. 

That orange battery clip is just a placeholder for a black one. 

[toyolien 6645]

17 minutes ago, BuggyDad said:

I made lots of progress on my heavily modified Boomerang project today. Essentially it's a runner now, with just a few bits to tidy up. 

 

That looks great. The Boomerang was my first ever RC car and has a lot of memories for me. Any reason for the high rear wing? (the more I look at it, the more I like the wing position).

[BuggyDad 6592]

49 minutes ago, toyolien said:

Any reason for the high rear wing? (the more I look at it, the more I like the wing position).

Iterative thinking really. I had changed a few things around such that the shock tops were almost certainly going to end up between body and wing, so the wing would the inevitably be pushed back. So I was going to keep the straight line from haunches through wing like on the original, just extended, but then I got to messing around with it and thought I'd try to curve the line up as well as out, inspired by the Top Force but less pronounced. 

The position photographed is a first iteration of a quick 3d printed wing arm. I could change the arm shape with a quick reprint, not much material, so my method was just to take a stab with the view to a second iteration. It is true that my line is a little out but the position I have I do quite like, even if it is a bit out of line, so I might keep it. I am also about to amend the body mounts, and that could change my feelings about wing position. 

I am struck by how much I like the look of this buggy. I always felt the Boomerang to be nailed on classic Tamiya but I just had a feeling I'd want to lower the body a fraction (I hardly have yet, I find the front limiting). And when it comes to these subtle close in wings I often just can't help myself but to send them skyward! 

[Alexei 786]

close to finish this project i have been working on since summer. basically, it's a rear wheel drive, with rear motor, onroad car. it's built out of a bunch of spares i had left over from a drift car, so i have been buying up some parts i needed, and some upgrades that i would want later anyway before they sell out completely and get impossible to find. a few parts is already hard to find. theres still a few parts i want, and one set is particular hard to find. but for now it just needs electronics.

[GeeWings 2861]

5 hours ago, toyolien said:

That looks great. The Boomerang was my first ever RC car and has a lot of memories for me. Any reason for the high rear wing? (the more I look at it, the more I like the wing position).

Ditto to all of that. My older brother gave me his customised Boomerang when he left home. It was stored in my parents' loft for years but then found out my sister dumped it :(

Anyway, one day I might buy a new kit but it just won't be the same. 

Yours looks excellent and I'm a big fan of that rear wing position.

 

[Busdriver 6668]

On 9/24/2024 at 5:57 AM, skom25 said:

NiMh? Dude, ancient technology. Go for LiPo, they are totally safe.

< Puts packs into Ammo Box and leave it in Bunker>

Sorry, but I always laugh a bit when I read that LiPo are totally safe and then see images like that  It is totally not about you. More like general statement.

Sorry not quite sure what you mean. Are you saying lipos are safe or they are not. The purpose of the ammo box is to make them as safe as possible. If handled properly and stored safely I believe they are an acceptable risk. I have NiMh batteries as well and for certain applications they are as good/ better than Lipos. I wouldn’t bother to run my tank on Lipos but then I wouldn’t run my Losi Raptor on NiMh’s ?  I don’t believe I’ve ever said they are totally safe?  At the end of the day it’s down to individuals as to what they deem to be “safe” . Guns aren’t dangerous, people are!!!!

[skom25 2630]

Finished Ford Focus WRC body. It was first "real" car body that I ever finished. Not perfect at all, but good enough for regular runner. I did few mistakes, but also Tamiya was not perfect with painting body. 

I was inspired by car which you can see here:

https://www.inveltcollection.com/ford-focus-wrc-ex02-obf/p-64/

[skom25 2630]

On 9/25/2024 at 9:40 AM, Busdriver said:

Sorry not quite sure what you mean. Are you saying lipos are safe or they are not. The purpose of the ammo box is to make them as safe as possible. If handled properly and stored safely I believe they are an acceptable risk. I have NiMh batteries as well and for certain applications they are as good/ better than Lipos. I wouldn’t bother to run my tank on Lipos but then I wouldn’t run my Losi Raptor on NiMh’s ?  I don’t believe I’ve ever said they are totally safe?  At the end of the day it’s down to individuals as to what they deem to be “safe” . Guns aren’t dangerous, people are!!!!

It was like joke. You can quite often read that LiPos are totally safe and then people put it into Ammo Box stored in garage, far away from home.

If they are so safe as they write, why they do not store them just in desk? What they do is totally contrary to what they write. Your photo just reminded me that.

If I ever will go for LiPos, I will do exactly what you did.

[Hypoxic 812]

Spun my new Neo Fighter in the local city garden dirt/leaf/mulch parking lot next to my house. For the price point, what an awesome kit! Running 3000 mAh NiMH on the stock motor and had a blast! Then bolted up some Carson tires for the street but I’m not a fan of those. I had the impression I was on ice. 

[Guest]

I gave the alfa gtam a coat of paint and fitted it to the TT02 chassis, not easy marking the holes for the body posts when they're made of such awful flexy plastic. Took two attempts but hey ho. I'm quite pleased with the results. Its quite a wide shell so I had to opt for the Tamiya CC02 12 spoke wheels with a +6 offset to fill the arches. I do have some aluminium wheels which will be fitted in the future, I think I may need some of the wide axles so they fill the arches better. 

Now a question,how do I convert this thing to rear wheel drive?, I can't have a 4wd Alfa Romeo. 

[Guest]

8 hours ago, skom25 said:

Finished Ford Focus WRC body. It was first "real" car body that I ever finished. Not perfect at all, but good enough for regular runner. I did few mistakes, but also Tamiya was not perfect with painting body. 

I was inspired by car which you can see here:

https://www.inveltcollection.com/ford-focus-wrc-ex02-obf/p-64/

That is fabulous 👌 

[technics 3436]

Played with the smallest LED’s I’ve ever experienced. I’ve been working on a 1:24 static kit slowly since last Xmas. Here I am applying some 1:10 lighting “knowledge” to truly tiny 0.5mm LEDs which I will solder to fit to this 935 K3. They will be remotely operated off a 3V button battery just like the 1:10 version lower in this post. It’s not a new idea but it’s new to me. 

I made a 1:10 lighting kit combining a few off the shelf components in order to be able to have LED’s lit even if you do not have electrics in the chassis, it sits on the shelf or without your drive battery connected. Idea is you have this double sided taped inside the shell just like a lighting kit. The LEDs below run off dual’s AA batteries and are remotely operated. 

[Guest]

On 9/15/2024 at 12:47 PM, bavee said:

Fitted CVA's to the 5yo's Midnight Pumpkin.

I assume lots of you appreciate the Midnight Pumpkin for what it is but I wouldn't pick it for a young kid again.

They crash a lot resulting in broken servosaver horns, broken shocks, broken body mounts and stripped rear suspension mounting points...

With a 45T motor.

A Mad Bull is certainly more durable.

But the Midnight Pumpkin is ready again. So let's go!

You'd be better off getting some aluminium body mounts, and the UK monsters servo mount brace mod which I've done to my lunch box. Both are  pretty cheap options and they'll make your little ones pumpkin a bit tougher.