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i paid 22USD for a gpm one blackeye:
For offroad, go the tee anyday, if you get a monster into the dirty stuff, you can kiss the diff/drivetrain goodbye.
This is what i heard from reviews….
For offroad, go the tee anyday, if you get a monster into the dirty stuff, you can kiss the diff/drivetrain goodbye.
This is what i heard from reviews….
7 channels?? what??
In the R/C world:
fwd/rev : 1 ch
left/right : 1 ch
elevator up down : 1 ch
ailerons : 1 ch
what more do you want???
7 channels?? what??
In the R/C world:
fwd/rev : 1 ch
left/right : 1 ch
elevator up down : 1 ch
ailerons : 1 ch
what more do you want???
mine is better!
Ohh a pair of these lightsabers would BE AWESOME FUN, just no when you’ve had way to much to drink…..probably beat sumbody to death and not realise it.
i’ve got bandaids…….
damn, i should have put Kitty in there as the BB whore :evil:…..:clown:
Quote:hehe wow.. this wealth of info just taught me all i need to know.. now i can buy sum tyres..thanks guys
Um, you have worked out the sizes….BUT
there are about 8 different compounds available………
Quote:hehe wow.. this wealth of info just taught me all i need to know.. now i can buy sum tyres..thanks guys
Um, you have worked out the sizes….BUT
there are about 8 different compounds available………
palm runners are a kids toy, the only thing they have in common with the Mini Z is the wheels and bodies, the chassis and elecs is a cheap design with non proportional control, like a Bit Char-G.
palm runners are a kids toy, the only thing they have in common with the Mini Z is the wheels and bodies, the chassis and elecs is a cheap design with non proportional control, like a Bit Char-G.
1/12 is a popular class in the states, but the 1/12 R?C cars are usually pan chassis type cars that run on 4 sub c cells.
These @12 look very cheesy, and weak……i’d seriously just go with a 1/10 Tourer……
The great thing about 1/10 TC’s is that you can put drift wheels on them……….fun to the power of 50!!
1/12 is a popular class in the states, but the 1/12 R?C cars are usually pan chassis type cars that run on 4 sub c cells.
These @12 look very cheesy, and weak……i’d seriously just go with a 1/10 Tourer……
The great thing about 1/10 TC’s is that you can put drift wheels on them……….fun to the power of 50!!
mini X’s are 1/28 4WD, they are weak and need special motors with long shafts for 4wd.
XMODS…..these may put you off ever buying a 1/28, they need quite alot of modding, both upgrade parts and work with a soldering iron and hobby knife to get them going nicely.
Mini Z, everybody loves these, the quality, performance, parts availability and huge range of upgrade parts from many different manufacturers make them a great vehicle to have.
Mini Z’s use KO PROPO brand electronics and have a 512 step ESC, XMODS have 16 steps, mini X have 512 also, i waver has ??mini X’s are 1/28 4WD, they are weak and need special motors with long shafts for 4wd.
XMODS…..these may put you off ever buying a 1/28, they need quite alot of modding, both upgrade parts and work with a soldering iron and hobby knife to get them going nicely.
Mini Z, everybody loves these, the quality, performance, parts availability and huge range of upgrade parts from many different manufacturers make them a great vehicle to have.
Mini Z’s use KO PROPO brand electronics and have a 512 step ESC, XMODS have 16 steps, mini X have 512 also, i waver has ??Whoo Hoo!! I got voted out first!!!!
It’s on !!!!
aaron if you choose that this is innapropriate, delete it, i just couldn’t resist….
congrats man, your nearly catching me!!
no, trash, you cant have!!! You have too many toys……..dude how does your wife (if u got one) cope???
Water, mud, small puddles never worried my ultima, until one day i landed a HUGE jump at the old BMX track, lost control, slammed on the brakes (the disc was wet so there wasnt much braking) and came to rest in a dug out hole that was about 30cm deep…….AND FULL TO THE TOP WITH WATER!! I actually had to fish around to find the bloody thing…..
Well, i dried out the servos, and spent about an hour trying to get water out of the engine…lucky it didn’t hyro lock, otherwise it would be buggered!
Now I have fully waterproofed everything, even the servo output shaft. Pitty you can’t waterproof the air filter……….
I too have thought about waterproofing a Z, and i thought a silicone cocoon around the elec parts would be the best bet.
It’s piss easy to apply too!A bit of vaseline on the servo arms to stop any minority of water getting in, water will not worry batteries, and would probably help cool them 🙂 just dont drive through salt water, or you will all die from chlorine gas poisoning lol. And we all know salt water stings…..and rusts stuff.
The only problem I can see, is the motor (if it’s a hottie), you could block off the air vents, but then heat might rise, if its a stocker or an X speed, a bit of tape over the air holes won’t hurt.
Im sure you have heard that water and electronics are a bad combo, and it is true, but fresh water is very high resistance, salty and other solutions are fairly low resistance and can have an effect on an electronic circuits function, and also corrode the crap out of everything.
once its all waterproofed, you have traction to worry about, forget flat tread tyres, you might as well attach water skis, a tyre with plenty of grooves to channel water should give OK traction, and adjusting the ball diff to slip a bit will help i guess.
After a day of play, just dry them off and spray some WD 40 into the bearings etc.
Oh and you gotta have lights on ur cars, almost all cars that race in the rain have hi beams!!:p
Water, mud, small puddles never worried my ultima, until one day i landed a HUGE jump at the old BMX track, lost control, slammed on the brakes (the disc was wet so there wasnt much braking) and came to rest in a dug out hole that was about 30cm deep…….AND FULL TO THE TOP WITH WATER!! I actually had to fish around to find the bloody thing…..
Well, i dried out the servos, and spent about an hour trying to get water out of the engine…lucky it didn’t hyro lock, otherwise it would be buggered!
Now I have fully waterproofed everything, even the servo output shaft. Pitty you can’t waterproof the air filter……….
I too have thought about waterproofing a Z, and i thought a silicone cocoon around the elec parts would be the best bet.
It’s piss easy to apply too!A bit of vaseline on the servo arms to stop any minority of water getting in, water will not worry batteries, and would probably help cool them 🙂 just dont drive through salt water, or you will all die from chlorine gas poisoning lol. And we all know salt water stings…..and rusts stuff.
The only problem I can see, is the motor (if it’s a hottie), you could block off the air vents, but then heat might rise, if its a stocker or an X speed, a bit of tape over the air holes won’t hurt.
Im sure you have heard that water and electronics are a bad combo, and it is true, but fresh water is very high resistance, salty and other solutions are fairly low resistance and can have an effect on an electronic circuits function, and also corrode the crap out of everything.
once its all waterproofed, you have traction to worry about, forget flat tread tyres, you might as well attach water skis, a tyre with plenty of grooves to channel water should give OK traction, and adjusting the ball diff to slip a bit will help i guess.
After a day of play, just dry them off and spray some WD 40 into the bearings etc.
Oh and you gotta have lights on ur cars, almost all cars that race in the rain have hi beams!!:p
You can get away with just one alloy gear, the first one, but this, on big impacts will break the 2nd gear. Since i had broken like 6 1st servo gears, i had plenty of 2nds left.
I’d say go alloy 1st, you have to have a BIG crash to break the 2nd…..i.e. hit something at 40km/h would break something.
If you go all alloy, then its going to be tie rods/knuckles that are the weak point, ask betty.k , he has all 3 alloy gears.
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