So, What Have You Done Today?

[Crash Cramer]

I fiddled around with my Rough Rider project, again, this time with a body that I hope to make work.
 

[GooneyBird]

4 hours ago, WillyChang said:

For mine I bought some laggy lazy miniservos, they take about 2s to go lock to lock.

Think they're made for plane retracts, where you don't want the wheels popping out like switchblade. The slow motion be graceful speed for an old warbird.

Well, but that's the easy solution!

I probably would have gone the same route, but my dad had a few of these servos in his to-be-trashed box, as they were too glitchy (or whatever, I don't think I'll ever understand what makes RC helis tick) for tailrotor usage.

[matman]

13 hours ago, berman said:

Don't think so, His name is Jonno. I told him about you lot, said a bunch of guys meet up in Perth every now and again for a vintage run at a track and he asked if it was 'bayswater' ?

Ok , thanks for that . I think he is thinking of the Bayswater track .  Is he a TC member ?. 

[topforcein]

While doing the weekly food shop I saw this little beauty sitting on the shelf and seeing I just happened to be watching man fire food last night  in witch on of these was used I thought that coming home with me seeing I've been after one for a few years. The price was £29.99 cheap in my eyes but when I zapped it anther self serve till it said £14.50 plus we got another 10% of that a brilliant price in my eyes. Can't wait to use it.

[Country Mike]

Been to hospital to return 24hr ecg for the drs to sort heart issue I have  

[topforcein]

2 hours ago, Country Mike said:

Been to hospital to return 24hr ecg for the drs to sort heart issue I have  

been there done that glad mine like yours was just a 24hr one instead of a week hope everything is ok with you.its a shock have to be told you have to take beta blockers and claestrol tablets for the rest of your life  

[VagabondStarJXF]

4 hours ago, topforcein said:

While doing the weekly food shop I saw this little beauty sitting on the shelf and seeing I just happened to be watching man fire food last night  in witch on of these was used I thought that coming home with me seeing I've been after one for a few years. The price was £29.99 cheap in my eyes but when I zapped it anther self serve till it said £14.50 plus we got another 10% of that a brilliant price in my eyes. Can't wait to use it.

I want one of these. I've just had to throw my old BBQ away (rust killed it after 20 years) and wanted to get a smoker. I love me some slow 'n low, smoked brisket.

[topforcein]

25 minutes ago, VagabondStarJXF said:

I want one of these. I've just had to throw my old BBQ away (rust killed it after 20 years) and wanted to get a smoker. I love me some slow 'n low, smoked brisket.

i cant wait to fire it up and sit in the back garden with a drink or 2. i got mine from asda.

[Effigy3]

The Super Stock TZ motor arrived the other night.  Now we're just waiting for the rally blocks to arrive and my son's TT-02 rally car will be done.

[Jonathon Gillham]

6 hours ago, topforcein said:

While doing the weekly food shop I saw this little beauty sitting on the shelf and seeing I just happened to be watching man fire food last night  in witch on of these was used I thought that coming home with me seeing I've been after one for a few years. The price was £29.99 cheap in my eyes but when I zapped it anther self serve till it said £14.50 plus we got another 10% of that a brilliant price in my eyes. Can't wait to use it.

I love my charcoal bbq, so few people use them these days as they can't seem to find the time and complain about the hassle. Such good afternoons/evenings here with a few beers, big hunk of meat and marshmellows.

[Country Mike]

3 hours ago, topforcein said:

been there done that glad mine like yours was just a 24hr one instead of a week hope everything is ok with you.its a shock have to be told you have to take beta blockers and claestrol tablets for the rest of your life  

I already have to take ramipril daily for blood pressure. Diastolic averaged 110 over 24 hours so I have those for something the dr couldnt find obvious as I hardly drink, don't smoke, correct weight, lactose free and don't eat fried food a lot and exercise and am only 46 but crippled with arthritis in neck/shoulders. 

[defizr]

I've managed to cut a chunk out of my CR-01 Unimog body that I shouldn't have done. Another 35 quid down the drain :-(

I don't think I like Lexan bodies. At least with hard ones all the work is done. You just have to splash a bit of paint on.

[Peter_B]

I've fitted a Carson Poison Truck Puller motor in my boys Lunchbox. Its not specified but I think it's about a 60T.

I removed the EPA restriction from his TX and gave it a test. Speed seems about right and without being limited it's got plenty of torque to pop the front wheels up on take off.

Got another one coming tomorrow for my other lads Mad Bull.

I also did a bit on my Blackfoot. I mounted a motor and centrally mounted the steering servo. I made up some new steering rods and then realised my calculations were nonsense. Somewhere I got it into my head that I needed 80mm rods. Nope, much too long.

Now I'm waiting for some 60mm turnbuckles to be delivered next week and can't do much else until they do.

[VagabondStarJXF]

16 hours ago, topforcein said:

i cant wait to fire it up and sit in the back garden with a drink or 2. i got mine from asda.

Bah! My Asda doesn't do them... In fact neither of the two nearest to me have them...

[Kingfisher]

17 hours ago, Effigy3 said:

The Super Stock TZ motor arrived the other night.  Now we're just waiting for the rally blocks to arrive and my son's TT-02 rally car will be done.

Those wheels beg for a Bandit Trans Am body shell.

 

17 hours ago, Jonathon Gillham said:

I love my charcoal bbq, so few people use them these days as they can't seem to find the time and complain about the hassle. Such good afternoons/evenings here with a few beers, big hunk of meat and marshmellows.

My charcoal grill gets used 1 - 2 times a week. You haven't BBQ'd until you perfect a pound of bacon on the pit.  

[Crash Cramer]

I have woken up, got to the car to vacuum it for over an hour at 9am and sweat out about 4 pounds, shower time to get started for the rest of the day before it hits 100 degrees.

[Grave Digger1]

I just finished cleaning this new built never run King Blackfoot up that I got today.

I also got new stuff to make a running body for it so that I don't destroy this body.

Lynn

[Wooders28]

Ever been kept awake at night wondering if the Schumacher big bore shocks fit on a Dark Impact? 

Wonder no more!! 😁

[defizr]

21 hours ago, defizr said:

I've managed to cut a chunk out of my CR-01 Unimog body that I shouldn't have done. Another 35 quid down the drain :-(

I don't think I like Lexan bodies. At least with hard ones all the work is done. You just have to splash a bit of paint on.

I know it's not good to quote yourself but what makes me really annoyed is the blokes on youtube who carve a perfect Lexan body with a rusty penknife in 5 minutes flat.

I reckon Tamiya could be onto a winner if they sold kits with cut bodies or sold cheap Lexan sheets with shapes in so you could practice cutting for yourself without screwing a kit up.

[Peter_B]

Today the other Carson Poison Truck Puller motor arrived from Amazon. So I spent 10 minutes putting it in my lads Mad Bull.

Run out of RC jobs to do now, until parts come next week.

Unless I set about the Procat. But I don't want to get stuck into that until the Blackfoot is done.

[defizr]

Just now, Peter_B said:

Today the other Carson Poison Truck Puller motor arrived from Amazon. So I spent 10 minutes putting it in my lads Mad Bull.

Run out of RC jobs to do now, until parts come next week.

Unless I set about the Procat. But I don't want to get stuck into that until the Blackfoot is done.

What difference does it make to the running of the Mad Bull?

[Carts]

3 minutes ago, defizr said:

I know it's not good to quote yourself but what makes me really annoyed is the blokes on youtube who carve a perfect Lexan body with a rusty penknife in 5 minutes flat.

I reckon Tamiya could be onto a winner if they sold kits with cut bodies or sold cheap Lexan sheets with shapes in so you could practice cutting for yourself without screwing a kit up.

I totally agree .i Dread cutting and trimming the body. It's really to get it right. 

[Peter_B]

3 minutes ago, defizr said:

What difference does it make to the running of the Mad Bull?

Slows it down nicely without having to use the throttle end point on the TX.

[Prescient]

Just ordered an extra WT01N Amarok as Amazon have an offer on @£116 as the direct seller, plus I have some credit balance from them. Cheapest price on these I have seen in a while. They have one left sold by them at that price. 

[Jonathon Gillham]

My lawnmower has been broken for a few weeks but its been too wet to worry about it. In that time I ended up talking a big game about it being a blocked fuel line and if only it wasn't raining I would fix it and mow the lawn. Well it stopped raining and halfway through I was thinking I have bitten off way more than I vould chew and I wished I had just taken it to a shop. But I had my 4yo helper doing 'man stuff' which in this case meant not admitting defeat and pushing on. Anyway, it worked! Despite getting petrol in my mouth blowing through the carb (really wish I had a compressor) and a cut thumb, I made it work. So started mowing and just tidied up the backyard 'track' and my wife asked what i was doing and what about the long grass everywhere else...so a 2 hour job mowing a stupidly long lawn. But rc related since we have our little track back