Those boxes and boxes of RC spares

[Prescient]

You know what I mean, all those spares accumulated over the years which are in reality totally useless to you but you still can't bring yourself to get rid of them because they still have 'value'. 

Anyone else have this issue? I just keep finding more and more. I have concluded RC spares replicate like Tribbles. 

I've already literally started giving stuff away now.

 

[Baddon]

Every car has a few bits and if you sell a car you still keep the spares (mostly) so they grow as your collection changes, builds, shrinks or eliminated. Still it grows......

[markbt73]

Definitely. At some point I want to see how many "Frankenstein" creations I can build from that pile...

[Prescient]

@Baddondeffo; plus it's not just the leftovers from parts spures though but batteries, motors, new parts, suspension oil, servos, various electronics like lights, fabrication parts, wheels, battery chargers, radio sets, ESCs, screws, swap out parts from worn but not brokens, unopened paints, part used paints etc

[Grastens]

That reminds me: since selling several of my cars, I now have spares for chassis I do not even own... and a whole lot of TL-01 parts - a chassis I never owned at all - since those come on the WR-02 parts trees!

[Returner]

Any DF-02 parts you want to off load ? More than happy to pay postage !! 

 

[Phil5556]

I'm looking for that box of "old toys" that someone wants to do away with. Specifically one with a Blitzer or Lunchbox in the bottom.....

[Tamiyabigstuff]

1 hour ago, Prescient said:

You know what I mean, all those spares accumulated over the years which are in reality totally useless to you but you still can't bring yourself to get rid of them because they still have 'value'. 

Anyone else have this issue? I just keep finding more and more. I have concluded RC spares replicate like Tribbles. 

I've already literally started giving stuff away now.

 

Definitely - I was up in the attic earlier today - counted about 14 boxes of miscellaneous Tamiya bits which have accumulated over the years. 

[lentner3]

Feel free to send me all your spares 😋

[ALEXKYRIAK]

TC-Crowd-Spares.com...! Send them all to one member of TC, selected at random, and he/she is tasked with making the Ultimate Franken-RC build from them. 13 wheels, 5 motors, 15 shocks, 6-1/2 bodyshells, and 42 of those leftover bits that you never use despite following the manual diligently and no-one knows what they're for...

[Ronnyhotdog]

As I'm new to the hobby and will be scratch building too, I made a conscious decision to keep all bits and bobs and utilise them in future builds. Odd shaped things will be handy to make all kinds of items for scale builds.

[Wooders28]

I sold most of my Ultima spares,parts which were readily available, now i find myself needing them and none about! 

Ive given alot of my old servos to the club, for newcomers starting off and also breakage.

[racer1]

Back when I was big into Traxxas I had so many left overs and spare parts laying around that I was able to build a complete Stampede and Rustler. 

I never throw away or get rid of my spare parts as I never know when I'm going to use something.  A couple of weeks ago I decided to rebuild and lower a Midnight Pumpkin.   Scavenging through my old parts bins I was able to find everything I needed from the screws, nuts, TA01 shocks, misc. brackets and mounts etc. to get the project completed without spending a single dollar. Bad new is I now have a bunch of Midnight pumpkin lower chassis parts to add to those parts bins. 

 

[Jonathon Gillham]

A year ago I used to worry about not having enough spares as I lost a few screws and things.  Fast forward to now and I had to buy little boxes to store all the screws that come as spares, shock spacers etc and have a Speed Passion motor to enter almost every class in NZ "just in case" I decide to change.  Which I won't.

I have a load of bits from the TA07 and TRF102 builds as well which are "just in case" I decide to change the setup or something, which I won't.

I also have a spare servo "just in case" I break one at the track.  I broke a Futaba S3003 which has scarred me for life, I doubt the Savox replacement will break, but you never know...I wonder when another one will pop up cheap and I grab that too.

Broker a front arm last race, ordered 2 sets of replacements to have spares, which will go with the spare shock towers, spur gears etc that I no doubt will never need.

I guarantee that if (read: when) I get a new charger my old one will be kept "just in case" rather than selling it for the $80 or so its worth now.

I'll probably keep the old race cars when I upgrade them too (that genuinely is a couple of years off though, honest), as I'll never get around to selling them.

I can guarantee though that next time I strip a ball diff I'll lose 1 more diff ball than I have in my spares...which means I'll buy 12 and forever have 11 spares

[markbt73]

This is the corner of my workshop, 30 years worth of RC bits, leftovers, and worn-out race cars:

One of those plastic drawers is nothing but RC10 parts. Another is nothing but wheels and tires. Another is just electronics and old 27/75mhz radio gear. One of the tubs in the corner is just old beat-up Lexan bodies.

Can't sell it; not worth anything. Can't throw it out; might need something from it. I tell myself it takes up less space than a similar pile of 1:1 car parts would...