Wood5tock's Boomerang Resto

[bromvw]

Have you thought about leaving the MSC in there but disconnected with the ESC hiding under it ? Looks cool . Old school but with modern reliability

[nascar24jd]

Have you thought about leaving the MSC in there but disconnected with the ESC hiding under it ?  Looks cool  . Old school but with modern reliability

That is a great idea.

I think after having my two re-re Frogs I am going to start looking for an original one. And that is a great mod for it.

[wood5tock]

I did think of that too or at least leave the resistor on. I'm happy using ESCs in the runners as A. They will be Tamiya ESCs and B. It's Re-res I use for the runners which obviously come with ESCs. The only grey areas are like the Boomers, where re-res are no longer available or never have been. This is where a little artistic licence comes into play

[matman]

Looking great so far ! ...

BTW !! If you want to stop your dog eating stuff , put some vicks on it .

As it won't kill them , but they hate the taste & smell .

It's a training thing , so any thing they have gone for , just add

some , your house may smell like you have the flu for a little time , but it stops

them .

Great thread & thanks ..

[wood5tock]

Looking great so far ! ...

BTW !! If you want to stop your dog eating stuff , put some vicks on it .

As it won't kill them , but they hate the taste & smell .

It's a training thing , so any thing they have gone for , just add

some , your house may smell like you have the flu for a little time , but it stops

them .

Great thread & thanks ..

Thanks for the Vicks tip, to be fair they don't really go for much these days it was just unfortunate that I left my note book in easy reach.

[Crash Cramer]

I haven't yet checked for the other posts that you mention will be posted for the other two Boomer builds, but since I am here, thought I should chime in with my two cents worth. Firstly.. WOW, that is some MASSIVE OCD and perfect organization. I could only dream of something like this every build I start. I really have to reevaluate my hobby life and take all my crap and put it in a dumpster and start anew with a clean room environment like yours. My wife would certainly agree with me taking all my crap and dumping it, starting over again, she wouldn't like that at all.

Moving on, the bit about the worn dogbone, well as a semi expert on the HotShot cars, they do wear differently based on the driving one does. I have only raced RC in the old days on an indoor oval similar to NASCAR, go straight, turn left. It lent itself to wearing things differently on my old HotShot, but it was fun. I wanted to state that the Boomerang was possibly THE FIRST shot series car that used all four of the SAME LENGTH dogbones. I can attest to that since I have recently seen with my own eyes a "shaft bag" for the Boomer that has all four dogbones and a prop shaft as its contents, the dogbones are all the same length, so your worn one could have come from any of the positions on the car while the previous owner had it. They could have swapped it from anywhere and it was shown by you that there was a mixture of bearings and bushings, so you never know where that dogbone came from and it could have been that one of the fronts popped out while driving and they just put a new one in well before you bought it and you didn't get any of his spares.

Stating that, I will share the fact that the HS2 had the same length dogbones front and rear as I just finished my build of a runner these last couple of weeks and there is one other fact about the HS2 that is of note, it ALSO had the double threaded end post for the second motor mount where the set plates are. The HS2 is kit number 62, so you can figure where it lands on the chart for which car had it first. The set plates are a bit finicky, but there is definitely a missing "cover" for your bodged screw and it is amazing you have all four set plates in that gearbox as they come out. It has been seen a simple metal washer of the right size was used in place of the plastic bit from the A tree, but it isn't "pure vintage" if it isn't plastic covering those set plates. All up to the builder. I know I get some OCD moments when building things and it is the main reason(along with looking at TC too long each day) that I take forever to build something, because, like you I think of all the things that are wrong or not good enough to reinstall etc on the car I want to build. It has been expensive sometimes to buy the correct parts and even with the re re out there, it sometimes makes it harder to get the right part since some folks on eBay want to swear up and down what they are selling is vintage, and then you don't get a vintage part because you didn't know the subtle differences or the seller had a bad photo or a stock photo and you get "taken" by the non vintage part, etc. I like to build things the way they used to be unless it will be so cost INEFFECTIVE to do so. Case in point, my Super Champ, I blended the new re re SRB stuff with the old since I figured it would cost me soooo much more to get the perfect proper SC chassis vs a ready to go re re one in black, so I made amends with myself and customized my build. I like it and I can scratch that one off my list of to do in the build department, painting, well don't get me started on that, I don't paint much these days or ever really.

Glad you found a C ring or 100 of them, I haven't ever liked them, but they are the proper part, so I use them still. If you have parts needed still, drop me a line as I have some of the HotShot spares all around me right now and I have a lot of the internals and screws here to help out. I have a Boomer, but it is sat on the shelf awaiting its slight modification and perhaps a new front gearbox as it appears to have cracked while sitting on the shelf. I can't say as I can blame my dog for messing it up, perhaps it was me that dropped the car onto the floor or something, I really don't know how these things happen when you don't even drive the car and stuff is cracked that wasn't cracked when you built it.

keep up the great organized work, I bow in the presence of the master of nit pikiness and neatness, I could only aspire to be half as organized, maybe in my next place of hobby building.

[Crash Cramer]

Forgot to ask, WHAT TIRES are on the yellow car, they look like more modern spikes from Tamiya, like a Manta Ray's tires??