How to protect Shelve Queens?

[Vlad The Impaler]

Hi,

I am new to the forum. Only discovered it yesterday and I have decided to rebuild and sort out my beloved 959.

I have a question. I do not want to reuse the car after I have finished up, just get it looking nice on a shelf. If I strip the car down and clean the bits up with soapy water and WD40 what if any lube should I use in the diff and the suspension pins? The aim here is to protect and preserve the areas for display not really to lubricate.

Thanks!

[usapirap(2)]

Petro based lubricants tend to slowly attack plastic and rubber over time. If your objective is to keep it as display piece, perhaps a dry & dust free environment is the best solution.

[Vlad The Impaler]

Nothing at all? Sounds sensible when you think about it. Has anyone got any other tips on preservation?

[usapirap(2)]

Yep, nothing is best. Unless you live in a high humidity area. In that case, you might want to wipe a little oil on the metal parts to prevent rusting.

[bholio]

I think there might be issues with the suspension arms on the 959 cracking over time from sitting on a shelf, so maybe put a block under the chassis to take some load off the suspension arms..

[vintagejack]

also , make sure that the car is not in direct sunlight at any point during the day, sunlight dulls colors and makes plastic and rubber components age.

[mymonsterbeetleisbroken]

just to add, never ever use wd-40 on an rc car,

that stuff has contributed to my user name being what it is[]

[Cavscout]

I would say, if you really must keep one, make sure he gets lots of exercise and let him watch the Rosie O'Donnell show or Ellen Degeneres shows from time to time-err, wait a minute, are we talking about the same thing?

[ukzz4iroc]

I always use WD-40!? What's up with it?

[dhes2809]

Must say I use WD-40 all the time on my cars. But then again most of them are getting used all the time. But I have used it on all my shelf queens and they seem ok. Have only stood there for a few month though.

[Tamiya1/10]

WD-40 is an petro base which is good for the metal but not so good for the plastic and rubber.

For the rubber parts like the tires, switch cover and rubber rings for the shock mounts I use silicone spray....from another hobby, airsoft electric guns...the maintainace manual suggest spraying some silicone onto the rubber seal after certain amount of firing or prior to storing the gun this will prevent the rubber seals from drying out and lost of compression.

If you can store at room temp. in relative humidity of 50 - 60%, dust free and away from direct sun light as indicated earlier should keep your self queen from ageing.

[Stefan(2)]

watch it with that wd40,

desolves/damage plastics & electic parts (the print) & rubber

This is not done in a fiew nights btw..

use silicone based products, that is better for it.

Stefan

[DJTheo]

Great for rubber parts is glycerine or products that cointain it, btw avoid also halogen lamps (spot lights) as they have high UV radiation.

Cheers

[tanker(2)]

My advice is: NOT TO LET it be a shelf queen!!! For goodness sake, drive the darn thing and let a car be a car!! Of course, not to crash and total it in the process... :-)