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any micro in your loungeroom… is just like doing donuts on a skidpan

1/10 indoors whilst watching TV… is more exciting that watching TV 😛

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probably 1/10 easier to handle, less dependent on the surface 😉

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nah no beer – they’re asian… and in box hill… HARD LIQUOR maybe 😀

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Aaron’s alive & well… just snowed under at his dayjob & real life i’m hearing.

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haha hi there “Best Toy”, welcome back to ausmicro 🙂

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i recently bought some Tomy CAULs but i think they’re bigger… they take AAAs onboard & in the box controller

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its not 4WD or fully propo is it? 🙂

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btw they’re getting a bit smarter too…

zapped a thread that nearly looked legit 🙂

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Hi Guys

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Hi Guys,

A long time lurker thought i would finally say Hi sorry if this is the wrong section mods!

http://www.spamlink
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i ain’t admin here bro 🙂 its aaron

no idea who’s hosting but even if we do, its not their business to do anything

deleting posts alone don’t stop them coming back,
neither will banning IPs if they keep using different ones

the multiple spamposters i’ve been banning their logins too but its just too
many to do the single posters… lucky most don’t post more than once per login anyway

i’ve been looking into the logins… looks like all of them have got timezome GMT-12hrs haha

but they’re definitely getting past the captcha and stuff… so it could be human doing it

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yep 🙂

i did 4 replicars in the week up to AS with full custom paint & stickers set, all “famous” cars

Autosalon Industrie chrome S15 Silvia (on Tamiya Coppermix)

BuddyClub’s trackracer DC5 Integra (on Tamiya RSX)

Tengku Djan’s AE86 Trueno (on HPI Trueno)

MadBull RX7… which didn’t get painted so wasn’t completed yet…

so when i managed to get my paws on the GTR shell only on the Thursday,
did the Haltech GTR as the showstopper 😀 totally all done in about 36hrs.
The “titanium” and gunmetal paint tones were custom mixed & handpainted.

Quite a few pics of the Haltech car shown in recent months and its pretty stock
bodywise… they only modded the car computer i think… its still a beast.
Plus a sydney friend spotted the car on a towtruck on way down to melbourne
on the thurs so got more pix there… then it was at AS setup on Friday so
i got some alone-time with it to check final details before i stickered mine.
Completed 4am on Sat morning.

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wow… they actually had the backend to take your $$ and send you goods?!

(me thought they just TOOK your $$ and that’s it 🙂 )

nah the spambots still ain’t ceasing

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yea unfortunately they are all logging in from different IPs so that ain’t much use, only occasionally multiple signups from same IP

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need the vB admin dashboard to block IPs 🙁 and they’re coming from a bunch of different ones too

over at AUSRC which uses vB too, we’ve put in a custom “One Touch Clean & Ban” button which is fantastically powerful… it nukes all the spammer’s posts, bans the login AND the IP… how good is that?! 😀

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i haven’t got the keys to the admin bathroom i’m afraid 🙁

we’ve already got the captcha etc… but i dunno what/how the spammers are getting thru

it could just be someone physically typing in logins; these days you can hire
droids to do it for like 2c each and they’d process 200 per hr

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nup 🙁

just zapped another 2, banned the serial spammer “JohnIS” and pruned 90 spam threads… which would be from the past 24 hrs alone as i did the same thing last nite

i hear most vB boards world around are getting hit bad too; many have resorted to banning newjoiners from starting new threads etc etc
until they’ve had 5 posts etc etc (excellent idea imho)

or some others are counting the time between signup & making new thread
and disallowing (or insta-ban!) those logins that don’t wait long enough

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oh no the spamming is NOT over… 🙁 … we’re just in here every hr zapping the crap!!

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somehow the spambots have found a vulnerability thru the usual captcha etc 🙁

we’re busy shovelling… hell, my DELETE button is looking overworked

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bad news dude, gotta tell ya RC addiction is only curable by death

😀

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totally stock? control board could be water-damaged

if its modded then anything possible

stock runs at least 15mins on a set of NiMH AAAs

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lucky bugger!

say hi to paris & nicole if you come across them out there 🙂

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Not worthwhile repairing unless you’ve got another S3003 with a broken
motor/case/gears… then you’d just swapover the electronics board.

Any LHS should stock them for say $15-20.

And don’t throw away the old one – useful as spares for the gears, motor, case etc.

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1/10 touring cars

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ahh ok, those are 1/4 AAA vs the Bit Char-G’s 1/3 AAA

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have you tried opening it up?

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might be time to get a Kyosho dNano! has laptiming built in!!

http://www.dnano.jp/choice/chassis.html

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