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I dont know about Corona virus but I think I may have Mad Cow (bull) disease from eating too many burgers:lol:

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Dreamed of flying with the Red Arrows:unsure:

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Well what else do you do with them????

 

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Bit of maintenance after work. Popped the new flourine coated sway bar ends on my TA06 and cascaded the nice blue ones onto my TT02. Drilled and prepped a bunch of c hubs for spares for the TA06 when i go racing. Added the 48.5 e-clip shaft to the remaining screwpin in Ultra Gs rear arms. It was backing out at the track on saturday. Feels like i am getting a few cars functional again, which is nice. 

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Got my 2WD runners ready for a thrashing in the rain tomorrow. Building my nephews new Sand Viper tomorrow too, so got my tools ready!

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1 hour ago, ThunderDragonCy said:

@Busdriver That looks ace with the wing. Took me a minute to figure out what it was. 

Never did like boxart

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5 hours ago, ThunderDragonCy said:

Bit of maintenance after work. Popped the new flourine coated sway bar ends on my TA06 and cascaded the nice blue ones onto my TT02. Drilled and prepped a bunch of c hubs for spares for the TA06 when i go racing. Added the 48.5 e-clip shaft to the remaining screwpin in Ultra Gs rear arms. It was backing out at the track on saturday. Feels like i am getting a few cars functional again, which is nice. 

Fluorine coated away bar ends😮

Your getting seriously serious😅

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Took the CR01 out for its first drive with my son doing the camera work for me

 

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On 2/26/2020 at 5:16 AM, ChrisRx718 said:

This has been sat in its box since I received it in November.

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That new chassis looks smoking hot INDEED!

On 2/25/2020 at 9:44 PM, Ferruz said:

Hoppin' on a sunny afternoon

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Gotta love the BIG BOSS, yeah!!

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now that I have small work area where I don't need to pack up things when I am done, I am finding I can fit in a bit of tinkering here and there a lot more often :D. Although most of my RC is still packed up, I do have my CC-01s, including my Mitsubishi Pajero. It hasn't seen any love for quite some time, so time to get it road ready. I had some alloy hop ups I'd bought ages ago and a diff to sort out.

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one beer later, (I am a slow drinker though :rolleyes:)

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and finally done with a home made bash plate. I had to shim the rear diff and tighten the top screws and no more gear grinding! Rear diff is locked too.

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It's not the world best crawler by any stretch, the motor and electronics are all stock, but it will do me. The jeep in the background will have a 55T and I've just ordered a proper crawler esc for it.

All I need to do now is find where I put the receivers and charge a battery and I'm good to goB)

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8 hours ago, svenb said:

Fluorine coated away bar ends😮

Your getting seriously serious😅

Ha! In all honesty they were cheaper than the basic steel ones! They are very nice though

 

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Made a Tamiya cybertruck.

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Tamiya cybertruck is born

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Kids will enjoy attacking this with a packet of Sharpies.

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Finally finished

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starting kit: Top Force 2005, plus TF Carbon chassis, plus TF HiCap damper set, plus a lot of a bling bling parts. Dyed rims and repro decals.

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What I thought was going to be a 30 minute job actually took me best part of 5 hours!, Decided to put my black motor endurance in my wild willy and not knowing anything about the original wild willy also no instruction manual it was a leap into the unknown (back in the day I didn't really take much notice of it more interested in racing my hotshot/boomerang) and what a bit of over engineering the gearbox is and unknown to me the pinion gear is fixed on the motor lucky though I had the exact same pinion then I cleaned all the old grease out of the what is two gearboxes actually and put all new grease in them and I tried to put a up to date esc in but soon give up because the glitching from the old acoms radio set was unbelievable and by then I couldn't be bothered to figure out why? :rolleyes:

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Not Tamiya, so, sorry!

But, today I noticed that Schumacher have designed an aluminium gear diff for the KR, LD and KD. I don't need it, I'll not notice the difference, and I could spend the money better elsewhere, but it looks really nice and I'll sleep better knowing I have one for my KR.

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OK, so I did a phone dump this afternoon, so I have a few photos to share (of varying quality, I'm afraid).

This first photo is my Tamiya 'track,' at the local high school a few hundred metres from my house. This means it's off limits during a school day (obviously) but it's perfect for running the Konghead, Dump Truck (pictured) and even the B5 and 4wd converted 1:16 Traxxas Grave-Digger. What you can't tell from the photo is the significant elevation change that affects the track differently depending on whether you're running clockwise or anti-clockwise. From where the GF01 is parked to the white tree above it there's a foot drop, similar to 'The Cutting' at Bathurst. Either way, it's about perfect for those particular cars.

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The second pair of photos are of my Volvo 242GT body (finally) mounted, but the photos are terrible, I apologise. That said, I'm so happy it's finally looking good and the wheels I found for it are period correct and look perfect. I need to figure out how to get the light kit to stop flashing, though.

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Next up is a shot of my TT01 Toyota 86, parked next to my MST MS01D Skyline R34. It was my first ever build, and has had a hard life.

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Finally, I enjoyed Melbourne's nice weather last night to farewell what has been a very strange "summer." While almost everyone is aware of the horrific bushfires we suffered 2 months ago, since then it has been unseasonably cold, or wet, or humid, or an odd combination of the lot!

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Spent the morning making a repair to my scratch built forestry machine. I was driving it around on rough ground last weekend and the front wheel came loose. I'd made the poor design decision of using an allen key bolt to hold the wheel on, rather than the conventional stud and nut. Anyway the wheel came loose enough that when it got stuck and I tried to drive out of a hole the drive wheel hub sheared off all 5 drive lugs on the wheel and it went into 2wd.:angry:. In the same run I managed to get a stone between the rear butt plate and one of the rear tires and ripped a 1 inch gash in the tire. :angry::angry:

So to repair the wheel, I drilled holes in the wheel where the studs had been, and added 5 steel studs to the wheel hub:

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I initially tried loctiting studs into the existing 4mm holes in the hub, but it looks like I'd drilled them to 4.2mm to make the wheels an easy fit, and the studs wouldn't stay in.

So I drilled fresh holes in the hub and put M4 threads in them, then made studs with a bit of thread on them, and an outer diameter of 4mm.

I also put a stud in the axle and the wheel is now held on with a nyloc nut.:)

I don't think it's going to shear off now (one of the others probably will), but it's one less usable Juggernaut 2 wheel left in the world.

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Hopefully this works as I'm posting from mobile.

Thank you Mr Tamiya for requiring me to paint the black parts of this grille! But fortunately I have fat thumbs, it was the raised parts which require to be left chrome. I just painted the whole thing and rubbed away the paint where I didn't want it :lol:

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Fun was had at my improvised temporary track.
Temporay because it's at the mercy of the weathers... though it seems that the better I refine it, the sooner more snow falls and inexorably buries my efforts. But it's all part of the game!

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I absolutely love your terrain, for someone like me who lives where it never snows, seeing that above is truely eye opening, and the fact that you get out and run your RC’s is truely fantastic, good stuff, keep it up. How long before it all starts to melt typically?

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