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My dear young Jamie.
The Wife is usually WHY some of us HAVE mortgages…
Let that be a warning for your upcoming years.
Quote:Panda already knows this, but I (for some unknown reason) want to return to my childhood and restore a Sandscorcher.NOOOO!!!
Eject! Eject!
Don’t go near that bright light!
regards,
Lucifer the MothI’d rather spend the $$ on a dozen X-Mods… 🙂
Quote:see that heatsink??? Best $0.43 I ever spent :D:D:DLooks like something for a TO-220 transistor.. 🙂
Quote:got my camera in ’97 when it was a ‘new fangled device’Don’t sweat it… still got a Canon Powershot G2 from 1997. Does only 640×480 res, no zoom nor any fancy functions but it did come with rechargeable batteries!! Dad paid must have paid Over A Grand… :p
And get this… for the 15MB CF card in it… think he paid MORE than for the camera. :dead:
Brushed Motors commonly used in RC are Tri-Pole… their armatures are made up of a stack of stamped laminations of three arms (poles).
On these arms you wind the wire.
Each loop around arm = 1 turn; all 3 arms would have the same # of turns, that motor is known as that “# turn”.
Now instead of using 1 fat wire to wind with, you can use multiple strands of skinnier wire running in parallel. Each turn with multiple wire still only counts as 1 turn even though there’s several loops of wire around the pole for every turn.
Most of the ones I’ve tried don’t usually stock “minature” bearings though. Some can order them in specially for you, but its often cheaper to buy them from a hobby shop.
Be prepared to pay thru your nose for ‘ceramic’ bearings… most of the ones appearing for RC use are probably “instrument grade” rejects and they’re several times the price of normal minature bearings.
What size are you after anyway?
Not the 1st time :blush: think we had words way before xmas…
Quote:… my 1979 rough rider with a radio boxPD:- If ya ever think of selling, let me know 1st ok? 🙂
Yeah, the famous “Redlines”.
Inherited a HotWheels loop-de-loop set yrs ago.
My favourite diecast is still Tomica. :blush: They had opening doors etc back even in the 70s.
Got some friction-powered Tomicas too – early 80s.
Few yrs ago found some PowerTomica, runs off a N cell.
Then we got the Bits! 😀
Ugliest HWs ever…!
🙁
February 25, 2004 at 10:48 pm in reply to: “Build RC Car” Mag (or what else we’d buy with $$) #36605Buy a nice kit, keep it in daddy’s closet and give him a new part each time sonny’s been a good boy… :D:)
Haha, economists wouldn’t have a clue what’s going on – 50% say its going Up, 50% say its going down and the rest are Undecided. 🙂
An economist is just an opinionated fella that thinks he knows what’s going on, like when you’re watching the animals in the zoo and trying to predict what they’ll do next.
Ever met a rich economist? :blush: Nah, me neither – and I’m in that trade. If only an economist could get his guess right any more than 30% of the time (yes 30%, no joke), he would be a rich man.
… or use JB Weld as a diff lube. :):D
Must be just on the back of news that Arnie’s gunna become President. (yeah, they’re talking about changing the constitution to allow ppl to who aren’t US-born to run for Pres)
:D:evil:
Interesting error… and an excellent cure!
Whoops… not so High anymore. Dropped 3c over the weekend! 🙁
Yeah, once upon a time Australia had title of “best living conditions” in the whole world… back in the 70s.
Since then, I think local industry has been lulled into some false sense of security and there’s been no new advances – no attempt to shore up Oz’s future.
Three decades ago it was a case of living off the sheep’s back, cropping or digging up stuff and selling it o/s.
Today… heck, what else does Oz export?
Ok, back to the Original Topic. :smiley2:
btw… I couldn’t find this magazine car in the city, so today I went all the way out to the suburbs… and yay I found a newsagent carrying it.
My lord.
Then I went had a chat with a nearby LHS.
Seems he’s pretty rapt with the concept… as there’s now quite a few newbies coming in and asking about RC, more than usual.
He’s patiently telling them they’re gunna spend $600+ on that… uh “thing”… and for much less he can sell them a real Tamiya full set.
But what gets them is the waiting for 40+ weeks. Nah, kiddies have no patience these days.
Real amazing thing is… these same kiddies WANT to build their car, they demand it! Yeah, they’re not interested in an RTR, even an XB Tamiya. They wanna piece it together!!!
I approve! 🙂
‘Cos not.
aUStralia, 51st state? :p
Drop in batteries!! yeah! :smiley2:
(able to charge them externally)
No roadtax, no registration fees, no tolls, no speeding tickets, no $1/litre petrol, no ripoff by mechanics, no need for hoists & jacks, no risk of the engine falling off and crushing the ribcage, no panel beating, no bleeding brakes, no fixing fuel pumps, no rebuilding starter motors, no rust, no clutch adjustment, no carb equalising, no filter & oilchange, no grease nipples to be lubed, no flushing radiators, no aircon gas to leak out, no engine mounts to perish, no leaking fuel lines, no adjusting tappets, no reaming valve guides, no decoking the carbon buildup, no gapping of spark plugs, no checking of contact points, no throwing a big fat spark from the coil, no dead condensors, no wondering why water pumps fail, no idea why aircon compressor bearings fail prematurely, no idea why bird crap eats paint so effectively.
Nah, RC is no fun. :p
The Yanks have a pretty HUGE trade surplus btw… so really, they have
very little interest in “improving” their trade balance with anyone
else. So don’t blame them, you would do the same too if you were
in the same shoes (err… aligator skin Texan boots?)But what’s really interesting & funny is…
1) go read the Oz media about “how much we’ve gained from FTA etc etc”
then
2) go over & read the US media about “how much we’ve screwed the silly
foreigners for, oh how good our negotiators have been etc etc”.
(like this lovely official annoucement):D:D:D:evil::dead:
Top Ten Countries with which the U.S. has a Trade Surplus
For the month of December 2003
Year To Date
Surplus in Surplus in
Millions Millions
Country Name of U.S. $ of U.S. $NETHERLANDS 998.64 9,731.03
HONG KONG 691.47 4,691.71
AUSTRALIA 522.30 6,689.91
BELGIUM 320.44 5,077.26
EGYPT 143.39 1,516.40
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 122.83 2,381.36
PANAMA 116.25 1,546.77
JAMAICA 91.18 974.87
BERMUDA 72.91 385.97
BYELARUS 41.35 -131.27USA Trade with Australia : 2003 (in millions of U.S. dollars.)
Month Exports Imports Balance
January 2003 840.9 566.8 274.1
February 2003 1,021.0 388.8 632.2
March 2003 991.7 469.7 522.0
April 2003 891.6 517.6 374.0
May 2003 1,048.7 593.8 454.9
June 2003 1,315.5 487.9 827.6
July 2003 1,391.5 560.6 830.9
August 2003 1,130.9 636.8 494.1
September 2003 1,162.8 504.6 658.2
October 2003 1,181.2 562.7 618.5
November 2003 1,033.6 552.5 481.1
December 2003 1,094.4 572.1 522.3
TOTAL 13,103.8 6,413.9 6,689.9So yeah… we buy from US more than TWICE what they buy from us.
And that includes all those cows for their McDs..!! 😯Biggest US exports?
we buy:-
Airplanes (Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas)
Weapons & armament
Guns & Ammo (S&W, Winchester…)
Computers & IT
Industrial Machinery
Farm chemicals – fertiliser, pesticides, (before long, also GM seeds)
Auto parts
Medical equipmentDamned cheap (<$10) too.
You don’t want to know what the trade price is on those… 🙁
Nup, nothing changes. Not to sound too cynical, but the only outcome from any silly FTA has been “no protection for goods coming from US, US give you nothing in return”. Oz farmers are still crying poor (nothing new there?).
The only duties now on RC stuff are GST and whatever else customs wants to hike your parcel with anyway. The US have nothing to do with it.
The main guys from US are HPI, AE, Losi, Reedy, Orion, Novak. With exception of Novak who makes their stuff in-house, most of those would already have some % of their manufacturing outsourced to China, Mexico or some other 3rd world country.
You found yourself some wheels, Tassie bro? 🙂
1st rule with cars is… “if it ain’t broken, fix it until it is”. :p
Don’t do any explaratory work on anything unless you have to, you’ll bound to find something to meddle with… and it’ll always take longer and more $$ than you budget for.
When mucking about with an old bomb, make sure you set a “limit” on how far you pull stuff off too. If you don’t, you might find yourself having taken out every last bolt and you have a basket case in your hands = 20yr restoration project.
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