So, What Have You Done Today?

[TheMidnight Pumpkin]

3 hours ago, casethejoint said:

I'm having a productive Tamiya week

Tire lettering and rear tailgate on the F150 done.

Now just awaiting a receiver, which is due to arrive tomorrow, and I'll take it for a spin.

Still on the lookout for a "F O R D" set of tailgate letters....

4 minutes ago, moffman said:

Looking very good!😉, Keep looking on eBay there is a guy often selling ford decals for the ranger and pumpkin! Although I can't see them on at the moment!

I've used MS Word to print lettering on paper in black to get the font correct. Then used tracing paper to transfer them on a poly body. Then lastly hand painted them on the body. So if you get stuck, this is an option.

 

 

[TeaMonster]

Took the lunchbox out for a blast today and came back with a broken battery bracket. I need to order a D parts tree after holiday.

And I found out the window masks on my Masami kit leave some nasty residue.

[jupitertwo]

After saving my borked Scorpion shell, I finally got it painted today. Yellow, back with white and then silver (for the driver overalls too). Looked great, until I sat it on the chassis.  Sadly the yellow is a too yellow and not enough orange to match the tub   I'll give it a few days to see how much it grates before I look at acquiring a replacement. 

Better results in my storage efforts. Some galvanised hooks from Homebase have worked a treat hanging some buggies up in my shed. Not enough wall space though, so some are hanging from the roof! 

[mongoose1983]

3 hours ago, TheMidnight Pumpkin said:

I shipped out the Optima to G.S. yesterday, so its making the long trek across the pond to a new home. Today I changed the plugs on a bunch of cheap-o speed controllers from ebay. For those who don't know you can get brushed speed controllers on ebay for $6 USD. They are not the best, and they only work with stock or mild motors. But who cares for $6!  -lol  Lastly I bought another can of paint for my VW body.

What are those speed controllers and most important where can you find them in the States?

[TheMidnight Pumpkin]

2 hours ago, mongoose1983 said:

What are those speed controllers and most important where can you find them in the States?

I own 6 or more of each brand. I prefer the HK ones, as they are a bit higher quality. But they both drive stock RC's pretty good. Understand we are not talking about expensive name brand speed controllers. These are cheap, but functional.

These are basically $6 USD

http://www.ebay.com/itm/320A-Brushed-Speed-Controller-ESC-f-1-8-1-10-RC-Electric-Car-Truck-Buggy-Boat-ST-/162577074101?hash=item25da5947b5:g:4CYAAOSwFMZWstQa

These are basically $11 USD

https://hobbyking.com/en_us/hobbyking-x-car-45a-brushed-car-esc.html?wrh_pdp=2

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I have never tried the ones from Aliexpress. But they have numerous models for under $10 USD each.

https://www.aliexpress.com

 

 

 

 

[Peter_B]

I've just seen some Tamiya 10.5T brushless motors appear on eBay for £12.

Bit wary but figured would be covered by eBay/PayPal so took the plunge.

[mman2005]

4 hours ago, Peter_B said:

I've just seen some Tamiya 10.5T brushless motors appear on eBay for £12.

Bit wary but figured would be covered by eBay/PayPal so took the plunge.

Great find!! Thanks! Fingers crossed it works out. I noticed seller doesn't have any feedback at all though so not confident.

[Peter_B]

5 minutes ago, mman2005 said:

Great find!! Thanks! Fingers crossed it works out. I noticed seller doesn't have any feedback at all though so not confident.

Yeah I noticed that too (after ordering). I did see that a few others have been sold.

So we're not alone!

[mman2005]

4 minutes ago, Peter_B said:

Yeah I noticed that too (after ordering). I did see that a few others have been sold.

So we're not alone!

What I did notice which makes it seem a bit more genuine is that they have limited the amount you can purchase to 1

[TheMidnight Pumpkin]

5 hours ago, Peter_B said:

I've just seen some Tamiya 10.5T brushless motors appear on eBay for £12.

Bit wary but figured would be covered by eBay/PayPal so took the plunge.

Can you post a link?

 

What have I done today? I taped and put the first color on my VW body. I should have the second color sprayed in a couple days. For me, the window taping was the worst part thus far. But I'm happy with the results.

[Prescient]

I would be surprised if that is genuine on the motors. Any seller with a few of those to clear would understand their value and could at least sell for £20-£30 to shift quickly and £40 to sell within a couple of weeks. At £12 its possible they could be stolen. After shipping and fees that's £8 per motor.

It's an odd way to list too. He had sold out, another 4 went live just now. He is ripping off Jadlam Racings listing title and auction text from the below auction.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TAMIYA-54611-Motor-10-5T-Brushless-540-TBLM-02S-RC-Hop-ups-/401326130771?epid=1742320276&hash=item5d70e6c653:g:u9kAAOSww5hZFfJ2

Unless this is a Jadlam shill account to help with some creative accounting and sale of assets.

Shop/House clearance places would always do their research on completed listings too. 

Looks like 9 sold now so not many shops/collectors would have that many to hand.

[Peter_B]

@TheMidnight Pumpkin here's a link to one of them http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/TAMIYA-54611-Motor-10-5T-Brushless-540-TBLM-02S-RC-Hop-ups-0-/263119528488

[nowinaminute]

18 hours ago, TheMidnight Pumpkin said:

I own 6 or more of each brand. I prefer the HK ones, as they are a bit higher quality. But they both drive stock RC's pretty good. Understand we are not talking about expensive name brand speed controllers. These are cheap, but functional.

These are basically $6 USD

http://www.ebay.com/itm/320A-Brushed-Speed-Controller-ESC-f-1-8-1-10-RC-Electric-Car-Truck-Buggy-Boat-ST-/162577074101?hash=item25da5947b5:g:4CYAAOSwFMZWstQa

These are basically $11 USD

https://hobbyking.com/en_us/hobbyking-x-car-45a-brushed-car-esc.html?wrh_pdp=2

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I have never tried the ones from Aliexpress. But they have numerous models for under $10 USD each.

https://www.aliexpress.com

 

I have dozens of those "320a" ones. The only time I had trouble is a couple that committed suicide when I switched them off while attatched to a lipo. It seems like there's a flaw that effects some of them where the fets get a jolt just as you cycle the power off. With NIMH there isn't enough current to cause harm but with lipo the fets can pop. I'm not sure if it's isolated or affects them all but I just pull the battery connector instead of flicking the switch now, I have used one with a 15T 550 motor and lipo extensively and it has performed great so it's not that it isn't up to running lipo, just some kind of design flaw or at least some bad batches. Interestingly, Kyosho, HSP,  FTX and several other brands have sold identical looking controllers in the past and those versions all have an inline capacitor on the power lines which would probably protect it from just the kind of jolt that killed two of mine.

There's some clone quicrun 1040s on ebay too for cheap that work well and have the advantage of having a LVC.

The aliexpress ones, I've only tried the black "bdesc-s10e-rtr" model which works great.

 

The other cheap ones I have used are those tiny 20a ones that cost like £2, great for toy grade conversions because they take up so little room but surprisingly gutsy, I regularly use them with anything up to about a stock Grasshopper spec 380 motor. I've even run a silver can with one but I wouldn't make a habbit of it, there's just no need when the higher amp ones are so cheap too.

[nowinaminute]

My Flysky GT3C has always had a flakey enter button, sometimes it worked fine, other times you had to press really hard on the scroll wheel to get it to register. I got fed up of it so I just wired in a little "push to make" switch and mounted it on the casing just about where my index finger sits when I turn the scroll wheel with my thumb. It will take a while to get used to not pushing the scroll wheel down to enter but it's sooooo nice getting a positive response form the button every time.

[max69vk]

Had to step away from the RC fun and games for a couple of months but finally started to getting to take stock of all my SRB's and parts for the rebuilds. This is about half of it...

https://goo.gl/photos/fupQAjKS5TFLUnZ19

 

[Grumpy pants]

I put 2 battery packs through the S.S with my 2 of my daughters today which was a nice way to get some fresh air. 

I can't quite work out whether my interest in R/C is coming back or whether or not I'm in the final stages of realising that I've lost interest all together.... 

[moffman]

5 hours ago, Grumpy pants said:

I put 2 battery packs through the S.S with my 2 of my daughters today which was a nice way to get some fresh air. 

I can't quite work out whether my interest in R/C is coming back or whether or not I'm in the final stages of realising that I've lost interest all together.... 

I go through them thoughts I'm in the can't be bothered mood at the moment and I have quite a few RC build projects sitting around including my Schumacher cat xls but something will spark my interest soon as it always has done over the many year's!

[78Triumph]

Finally got my Neo Scorcher sorted for it's maiden run.  Had a good time!

Untitled by Joe, on Flickr

[bjorklo]

Did a moisture test of some new boxes (145L), just to be sure stuff want be broken in storage

One of the boxes are stock, and the other one I added an rubber seal. 

Both seem to be ok  

[berman]

Went back to my LHS and picked up some servos, y harness, another hobby knife (can't for the life of me figure where I put my other) some new tweezers because i bent and lost the aluminum ones.

Start the Donghead build tonight.

[TheMidnight Pumpkin]

I cut out the window decals for the VW. I finally understand why others have said it takes SO LONG to paint one of these! I can't believe they don't come pre-cut... what an ugly process. Later today I'll wipe it down again, then apply these critters before throwing the white on the top half. I hope the white turns out as good as the purple has. Then in another day I'll be (fingers crossed) done with painting the inside, so I can begin painting the outside of the body.

[StrokerBoy]

46 minutes ago, TheMidnight Pumpkin said:

Later today I'll wipe it down again, then apply these critters before throwing the white on the top half. I hope the white turns out as good as the purple has.

I recommend applying the paint carefully using an aerosol or airbrush, throwing it on rarely gives top-notch results...

[Prescient]

Got a few manuals included with a purchase recently. Not sure if to archive them or ebay....

[StrokerBoy]

So, my first proper RC was a Midnight Pumpkin back in 1989, a couple of others followed but then I drifted away for years like a lot of people do.  What sucked me back in ?  The CW-01 Unimog release 4 years ago, which I spotted online while looking for something totally unrelated.  I snapped one up straight away, joined this place, got distracted by other kits (as you do) and although I soon built up the chassis with a pile of hop-ups, I ended up putting a different shell on it to create the Fuzzbox.  When I saw someone selling a new Lunchbox kit (minus shell and wheels) earlier this year, I grabbed it and this week I now - finally - have a finished Unimog.  Well, it still needs the various lights wiring up and the driver painting, but it's almost there.

[jupitertwo]

24 minutes ago, StrokerBoy said:

So, my first proper RC was a Midnight Pumpkin back in 1989, a couple of others followed but then I drifted away for years like a lot of people do.  What sucked me back in ?  The CW-01 Unimog release 4 years ago, which I spotted online while looking for something totally unrelated.  I snapped one up straight away, joined this place, got distracted by other kits (as you do) and although I soon built up the chassis with a pile of hop-ups, I ended up putting a different shell on it to create the Fuzzbox.  When I saw someone selling a new Lunchbox kit (minus shell and wheels) earlier this year, I grabbed it and this week I now - finally - have a finished Unimog.  Well, it still needs the various lights wiring up and the driver painting, but it's almost there.

Looks great, you recovered the shell well if this is the one you had problems with?

I've a body in the same green, you're making me tempted to mask it and colour the bed. The lights are a great addition too, though I worry for them on CW01 rollovers