So, What Have You Done Today?

[Re-Bugged]

[moffman]

1 hour ago, Baddon said:

The independent shocks were from the Supershot. I have them on my Boomerang too.

If I remember my shocks came in a box with a picture of the shocks attached to a ghost picture of the hotshot and I only used the front shocks with mounting brackets but they were exactly what was put on the supershot (super hotshot)!

[Effigy3]

8 hours ago, Jonathon Gillham said:

The diff is sounding knackered already and this was built on christmas day, stock apart from ball bearings and only ever run the silvercan on NiMH. 3/4 of running at 60% epa on the throttle too since my son is 4. It has however done a heap of jumps, we have a track in the backyard including a couple of plywood ramps.

I'm going to try shims in the diff first since I have those so its free. It may have to be the MIP diff but I'm reluctant as thats USD60 so will try the cheap options first.

You could try Tamiya Differential Putty. I hear that stuff is great at holding things together.    </sarcasm>

[Baddon]

A bit of body work. Good ladies Vintage Monster Ambulance is finished. I got a decal sheet for a Mk2 Escort Mexico which the window, number plates and door handles came off.

As is our little ladies Madbull. 

All the red on both shells are hand cut from a sheet of plastic. All other colours other than the base colour are marker pen.

[Crash Cramer]

12 hours ago, moffman said:

If I remember my shocks came in a box with a picture of the shocks attached to a ghost picture of the hotshot and I only used the front shocks with mounting brackets but they were exactly what was put on the supershot (super hotshot)!

Sure hope you kept the box, it is the HotShot H.P. Suspension Set from 1986 Kit/Part number 5276. I bought one BITD to add to my HotShot and yes, it is the equivelent yellow CVA shock parts used with the SuperShot, but then there were a few extra bits in there in order to put independent suspenion onto the HotShot which the Boomer already had. I found a box over the years on eBay and I have tried to slowly add all the bits back to it, the hardest parts to find are the FRP bits that relocated the heat sinks to allow for the SShot's rear shock mount, also made of FRP.

[Phil5556]

I made this fit. Needs a little bit of tweaking but it's nearly there

[Crash Cramer]

1 hour ago, Phil5556 said:

I made this fit. Needs a little bit of tweaking but it's nearly there

Needs a big engine hanging out the back.

[Jonathon Gillham]

Got the offroad racers ready for their first outing of the year tomorrow. They were in surprisingly good shape so nothing major required, except the ball diff on the Ultima RB6.6 and a new wing for the Lazer ZX6 (should this go here since they are both Kyosho?)

Ball diffs are scary, I hope its ok. It was so loose when I took it out, which is probably because I should have had it apart a few months ago but kept putting it off. It is now nice and tight and should be fine according to the manual. It will be pretty obvious tomorrow though. 

The club has laid a new track over the break so this will be like starting again, really looking forward to it. I just have to charge my batteries and pray to the weather gods tonight as we have a few storms around atm. If its rained off at leat I have the first indoor meet next Saturday!

[moffman]

11 hours ago, Crash Cramer said:

Sure hope you kept the box, it is the HotShot H.P. Suspension Set from 1986 Kit/Part number 5276. I bought one BITD to add to my HotShot and yes, it is the equivelent yellow CVA shock parts used with the SuperShot, but then there were a few extra bits in there in order to put independent suspenion onto the HotShot which the Boomer already had. I found a box over the years on eBay and I have tried to slowly add all the bits back to it, the hardest parts to find are the FRP bits that relocated the heat sinks to allow for the SShot's rear shock mount, also made of FRP.

Yeah thats what it was called good shout! I tried to find a picture of them but i couldn't remember what they were actually called! Oh memories in the school hall on a Friday night and the only rules was you couldn't use your transmitter when a heat was on 4wd and 2wd would race together 9 times out of 10 the rc10's would leave the 4wd's (hotshot, boomerang, optimas etc) standing brilliant times!!

[Effigy3]

I finished the "tune-up" on my buddies DT-03T Aqroshot.  It started out with a TBLE-02S ESC gone bad and morphed from just replacing that with a HobbyWing QuicRun 10BL120 to a diff rebuild, a damper rebuild and tune and over-all fine tuning.  The ESC fit perfectly but the thick 12G wires push ever-so-slightly up on the body.  I moved the clip pin up on the body mount one hole and the issue was resolved.  The cap pack found it's home on the old ESC switch mounting plate.  I used double sided Tamiya foam ESC tape to stick the caps and I put a single, thin zip tie around it as well.  I also put a pair of soft (red) DT-02 shock springs up front with medium thickness preload spacer and a pair of blue (hard) DT-02 shock springs out back with 2 thick preload spacers.  The extreme rearward weight bias and uber light nose necessitated this set-up. The chassis now sits perfectly level under its own weight and has even smoosh when pressed downward regardless of where on the chassis I press.  The only thing I wished I could have done was swap out the EC3 connectors to Deans.

[scollins]

Getting ready to build my track ready 1970 BOSS Mustang!!!!

[kwkenuf]

Took my neighbors RC10 for a quick spin, literally.  New brushless combo and a lipo, the thing is seriously light and twitchy.  The third pass up the road resulted in a nice cartwheel because I tried to slow down.  

[topforcein]

12 hours ago, scollins said:

Getting ready to build my track ready 1970 BOSS Mustang!!!!

where did you get them wheel and tyres from and what offset are they

[78Triumph]

Yesterday evening I used some sidewalk chalk and a few corner makers to set up a tarmac rally stage.  The XV-01 was still setup for snow so there was a lot of body roll and digging in the corners on the front end but it was still quite fun!  I peeled one of the front tires off in a corner because I don't glue my tires.  This is my favorite Tamiya car so far.

 

[WillyChang]

Watched Roger Federer win the Australian Open!!

His 6th AO win and his 20th Grand Slam trophy!! making him the new leading men's winner 

all whilst finishing up restoring a Frog  which turns 36yo this year

same age as RFed!! 

[Rb4276]

Rebuilt my dn01ball diff because it hasnt been done for over a year and felt gritty

[Phil5556]

Finished cutting my shell and sorting the posts out.

Windows are masked up ready for paint now.

[Jason1145]

8 hours ago, 78Triumph said:

Yesterday evening I used some sidewalk chalk and a few corner makers to set up a tarmac rally stage.  The XV-01 was still setup for snow so there was a lot of body roll and digging in the corners on the front end but it was still quite fun!  I peeled one of the front tires off in a corner because I don't glue my tires.  This is my favorite Tamiya car so far.

 

Some pretty good driving there!

[Jason1145]

Bought a well used and abused Striker on EBay, but it does come with a spare main chassis ( not extra cockpit)  so I can effectively start collecting other bits and make two of them... hmmm a polycarbonate FX10 Bodyshell might be on the cards!

Edit : Just saw the Futaba FX10 uses 2 rear horizontal body posts and not the Strikers vertical posts!

[Crash Cramer]

Why didnt I think of sidewalk chalk and soccer cones together, I only used the cones and sorta forgot the way I was supposed to drive around them or made it up as I went, now I can use the chalk and enjoy driving more versus thinking more. Lol

[howaboutme]

Prepping my 58639 for the first coat of paint. Figured I'd save some precious Tamiya masking tape and use some of the home improvement stuff since I'm covering 95% of the body.

[scollins]

Yesterday I finished up the "Team Build" CC-01 Amarock (Sno-marock)

But today I restored and old model of a Chevy Nova built back in 1988 with a terrible paint job,,,used Tamiya TS paint Technifonica blue and Testors "wet look" clear coat lacquer on top-

s.collins

[78Triumph]

32 minutes ago, Crash Cramer said:

Why didnt I think of sidewalk chalk and soccer cones together, I only used the cones and sorta forgot the way I was supposed to drive around them or made it up as I went, now I can use the chalk and enjoy driving more versus thinking more. Lol

It's a lot of fun driving on a course you can setup on your driveway for sure.  Sidewalk chalk is cheap!  I've also been eying up these I found on Amazon.  They're 6" wide and made of rubber so they won't skid and move around, plus they lay flat so you can drive over them like real track dots.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0787GDMQ9/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2L0LODUJGR5H7

 

55 minutes ago, Jason1145 said:

Some pretty good driving there!

Thanks!

[novicelad]

Cleaned all the component parts of the TNX!

[Jonathon Gillham]

Pulled the front end of the Lazer apart to see what parts I need to order after coming off second best with the fence at the track yesterday. It did a proper job, not only did I break the lower arm but also the pin that holds it on, snapped in 2. Luckily it is all of USD$13 for replacements from Amain, but I will add a spare set of arms too. This was at the start of race 2 yesterday and so i called it a day rather than wait around for over an hour in blistering hot sun for a 6min race of a car that goes in circles. If i had the spares it was a 10min repair job.