The "Postman Brought Me" Thread

[matman]

Well that will keep you busy and keep this thread alive with your quest for K parts

The rear diff might just be dried up grease - i built up my Mid gearbox a few days ago, but last night noticed it was sticking in one spot - opened it up, all seemed well but there was a small amount of hard, old grease at the base of one gear tooth that was causing the pause, and jump, with the centre gear. Wasn't easy to spot it, being black dried grease on black plastic gear. All sorted now and smooth as silk again

What are these K parts you talking about , Don't know much about kyosho optima much "yet" .

I had one back in the old days , but didn't like it & was lucky to get rid of it . This is how i got my FOX

that i still have today . I wanted to get one to restore / Maybe / sort of because i had one .

Just need to get the mini mardave & i have got everything i had back then woohoo i think woohoo

[Percymon]

download the manual from

http://www.retromodelisme.com/manuel_page/42/optima-kyosho.html

or

http://www.competitionx.com/pdf/vehicle-manuals/kyosho-optima-4wd-offroad-racer-manual.pdf

drop me a line if you need any pointers on parts sellers, especially bodies/decals

[matman]

download the manual from

http://www.retromodelisme.com/manuel_page/42/optima-kyosho.html

or

http://www.competitionx.com/pdf/vehicle-manuals/kyosho-optima-4wd-offroad-racer-manual.pdf

drop me a line if you need any pointers on parts sellers, especially bodies/decals

Thanks , I also looked in the box & wow it has the manual .... The chain had broken & that is what was stoping

the rear to move etc . got spear chains etc . Still stripping it down ... Most of the screws are not right & doggie stuff ...

Will keep stripping it down & get it all cleaned & work out what i need .

Also i will need to go through what spears i got with it . $$$$ Grr ....

& thanks Percymon ....

[Percymon]

Kyosho screws don't come up on ebay very often and tend to be as silly pricing as Mr Ts Ti screws. there are plenty of black m3 screws around (HPI do quite a few variants) but the awkward M2.6 are exclusive to K

Don;t forget a couple of screws at the rear of the side rail are reverse thread !

[matman]

Kyosho screws don't come up on ebay very often and tend to be as silly pricing as Mr Ts Ti screws. there are plenty of black m3 screws around (HPI do quite a few variants) but the awkward M2.6 are exclusive to K

Don;t forget a couple of screws at the rear of the side rail are reverse thread !

OK!! i have pulled the rear diff out & didn't do the reverse thread ?. right is tight , left is lose !.

Chassis broken top , Yer the bumper support is bent out of shape & will need to be replaced .

Will strip the rest tomorrow & thanks .

[Daves956]

Kyosho screws don't come up on ebay very often and tend to be as silly pricing as Mr Ts Ti screws. there are plenty of black m3 screws around (HPI do quite a few variants) but the awkward M2.6 are exclusive to K

Don;t forget a couple of screws at the rear of the side rail are reverse thread !

HPI does the 2.6 as well, found some at the LHS for dirt cheap prices.

[Shaggy39]

the spending of money generated from my bike sale continues....just ordered a tf2 from rc4wd:-)

[Percymon]

Kyosho spur and pinion gears, plus associated shock rebuild kit.

[stonestream]

A NIP Futaba Attack R... :-)

[Grumpy pants]

My nitro Mini arrived today, purple and it looks promising.

Fingers crossed its not a stinker and runs, hopefully will get to pay tomorrow!

[Tamiya Era]

Here what i got for my TA05 VDF Gold:

Tamiya Body Set Mercedes-Benz SLS Petronas Syntium

[XV Pilot]

A NIP Futaba Attack R... :-)

Looks lovely! My first hobby-grade radio set was a Futaba Attack R on 27MHz. Still got it, but it doesn't look anywhere near as nice as this anymore!

[berman]

On saturday I got:

Hostile racing grey boots

Hostile racing spur gear

and Darksoul gen 3 dogbones

all for my baja 5b

[Percymon]

1/18th 25A brushless ESC, to go with the motor that came a week or so back - should sort my little beach buggy project just fine.

[SteveU30]

Just got the oil shocks for my King Blackfoot build, now I know what to do with the oil but can anyone tell me what the little pot of grease is for?

[wolfdogstinkus]

Just got the oil shocks for my King Blackfoot build, now I know what to do with the oil but can anyone tell me what the little pot of grease is for?

As far as I can tell from the manual on tamiyaclub, the King blackfoot has friction dampers so the grease is for the rubber tube inside the damper cylinder and also for the piston rod. Don't know what the oil is for?, did it all come together?

Also the King Blackfoot ones are red in colour so I guess they are blackfoot dampers.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/manual.asp?id=198

Maybe the ones you have are oil dampers but both blackfoot's had friction dampers as standard.

[SteveU30]

Sorry I don't think I was clear enough, these shocks are a kit I bought off eBay here: http://bit.ly/12ELpHO

I'm fitting them to my KBF as an upgrade from friction shocks. I was only expecting to get shock oil in the kit which is self explanatory but they've also sent some grease too with no instructions to suggest what it's for.

Any ideas?

[Percymon]

Sorry I don't think I was clear enough, these shocks are a kit I bought off eBay here: http://bit.ly/12ELpHO

I'm fitting them to my KBF as an upgrade from friction shocks. I was only expecting to get shock oil in the kit which is self explanatory but they've also sent some grease too with no instructions to suggest what it's for.

Any ideas?

I'd guess for the rubber seals and piston rods during assembly, but since the rods are already installed it is a little strange !

[wolfdogstinkus]

In that case as Percymon said, the grease is to try and stop all the oil falling out.

[Percymon]

My arrivals..

DF-01 bearing set from rcbearings

Bag of Kyosho 2.6mm pivot ball nuts

and finally my RC10 turned up..

complete with a set of winter spike tyres

[SteveU30]

Thanks chaps, I guess then it's in case I ever want to strip and rebuild them, I have some grease ready and waiting. I'm gonna assume the seals were already greased prior to them being built.

Nice tyres by the way!

[F2 Stu]

TRF 501x alloy bridge stiffener

TRF 501x alloy C hubs

TRF 501x alloy steering knuckles

TA03 ball races

[PaPeRo]

Got this couple days ago...it's a very BIG heli.



Check out this video if you want to see how big it is.

[matman]

My arrivals..

DF-01 bearing set from rcbearings

Bag of Kyosho 2.6mm pivot ball nuts

and finally my RC10 turned up..

complete with a set of winter spike tyres

Those tyres are screwed .... You need to get some more ... Sorry had to say it ...

[SB_Aust]

Those tyres are screwed .... You need to get some more ... Sorry had to say it ...

I agree. Tyre Spikes......Just when you think you have seen it all.