Durability List

[Fuijo]

On 20/04/2017 at 4:11 PM, moffman said:

.......the small problem with the hornet! If it goes over them front spring mounts might aswell be made out of cardboard!, The amount of new chassis i bought because of flipped over hornets that have had there front spring mounts ripped off!........

I've read about this elsewhere, and I have to say I can't work out how they do it. I drove my original Hornet exclusively in the street outside my parent's house, jumping it and flipping it over many, many

times, and I never broke the spring mounts. I think I was about 13 at the time and mechanical-sympathy was not in my vocabulary.

I managed to destroy the wing on its maiden voyage, but after that it suffered nothing more serious than all over gravel rash. The only thing I probably didn't do that others might have is to jump it more than

a couple of feet in the air. Not for lack of enthusiasm for such antics, just a lack of a big enough ramp.

Still, that thing was properly strong. Have people been jumping them from the tops of houses or something?

[moffman]

4 hours ago, Fuijo said:

I've read about this elsewhere, and I have to say I can't work out how they do it. I drove my original Hornet exclusively in the street outside my parent's house, jumping it and flipping it over many, many

times, and I never broke the spring mounts. I think I was about 13 at the time and mechanical-sympathy was not in my vocabulary.

I managed to destroy the wing on its maiden voyage, but after that it suffered nothing more serious than all over gravel rash. The only thing I probably didn't do that others might have is to jump it more than

a couple of feet in the air. Not for lack of enthusiasm for such antics, just a lack of a big enough ramp.

Still, that thing was properly strong. Have people been jumping them from the tops of houses or something?

They are tough little cookies without a doubt but when ya racing (and we did race them) if another like minded buggy made contact inevitably it would slide over the front shock mounts and take them with it and twice i remember going under the family car and wedge under the tyres front shock mounts gone again! And a garden fence wedged again......Yes yet another front shock mount disappeared. Oh and the rear wing that bit the dust on its first outing!

[Saito2]

I never broke the front towers, but I guess it must have been common. I clearly remember one of my local hobby shops having a stack of 10 or so new Hornet chassis (in the cool old brown Tamiya boxes like the body sets used to come in) always on hand.

[WillyChang]

Never broke the front towers but the rear body pegs always got knocked off the rear towers. Replaced them with screw-in posts.

[Doctor46goat]

only time I broke a front shock tower off my grasshopper as a kid was when I drove under a slightly open garage door....

My sons tt02b neo scorcher seems pretty tough, it's had 18 months of constant abuse from a 9 year old bonkers driver and apart from all the scuffs and scratches all we've had to replace is a rear differential that rounded off the bevel gears!

Only cost £6 for a pair of new diffs, so no big cost either.

[Aleblanc]

i'll throw in my DT-02 Holiday buggy into the mix. The body itself is held together with hopes and dreams, but the running gear had held up to my constant abuse well.

I'm running a torqued tuned motor in it on 7-cell NIHM or 2S Lipo's and I've already worn two sets of rear tires down.

[shenlonco]

The DT02 is pretty tough, hornet, lunch box are good also.

[GooneyBird]

DT03 can crack around the nose. It won't affect the car structurally, but the nosecone will drop off. Other than that it's pretty much faultless. I run mine with a 13.5t brushless motor, and the only time I've had to replace something was when I ran it on an indoor track with wooden boards (broke the servo saver) and ran it on a 1:8th scale track (aformentioned nosecone). And mine's been in the ocean without any negative consequences, though I wouldn't recommend it.

TT01s are pretty much bombproof too as a racer. A TT01E is my choice of attack weapon in the Tamiya Cup, and other than the usual consumables of gears and the occasional steering knuckle (again, wooden boards) it doesn't ask for anything.

Off-the-wall-suggestion: TRF419. Being of high-end materials means it's built pretty much like a tank. It has one weak spot; c-hubs. Replace those with Exotek or Roche items and you won't break anything else. I've run mine every other week on an indoor track and I haven't broken much on it. (According to my list, ignoring the c-hubs which stopped breaking after I switched to Exotek: one rear hub, two spur gears, two layshaft bearings, and a front wishbone. Also, I've worn out the CVD-axle hub on both ends after running a season with a front spool, but those are cheap and considered consumables)