Who's in to electric RC cars?

Hamish said:
stupidly fast KO propo server 2123?? 0.08secs 60deg!!
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Got a BlueBird one that is the same spec (0.08sec 60deg @ 6.0V). Won't last as long as a KO though.
I'd love a couple of KO HS servos but they are mega money. You can buy an entire model for less.
 
I've got a couple of really old leccy Tamiya cars back at my parents place (Striker and Falcon) but I've not used those in 15+ years, my current toys:-

Savage SS (nitro not leccy)

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Futaba 3 channel reciver, HS-6985HB Steering servo (yes way overkill), HS-645MG Throttle servo, Reverse module, 7" Truckzilla Revolution wheels, and a Hemi sheel painted by KevTheRev.


And my project TLT Max Climber

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My little bling machine with hardly anything stock,

Carbon chassis, Chrome looking diff cases, Full bearing set, Alloy bumpers, Alloy body posts, Alloy chassis posts, Alloy servo mounts,Alloy damper linkages, Alloy knuckle arms, Alloy Suspension Stays, Alloy TMaxx shocks, 27T motor installed, 2x HS635MB servos, HiTec HIS-03MK reciver/failsafe, Tomahawk Speed controller, HPI MT2 chrome look wheels with road tires
 
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saitrix said:
Leccy or Nitro? I have 8 leccy planes (damn is it that many now? :o ) and just building my first nitro one.
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All leccy at the moment had three 2 channel generibegginer planes and now have a couple of 3 channel C-17E biplanes there pretty nice and really responsive with the larger servo arms on I do keep crashing though >.< :p so 5 in total spent well over £300 so far enjoying it though.
What planes do you have?
 
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I have an
Xray T2 with KO VFS-1 speedo, KO 301F reciever, KO2343 servo, best part of £600 there alone.
Spare car is a Corally RDX, with a spare KO2343, LRP 7.1 speedo.
Then 6 packs of top matched cells, box of motors, my own comm lathe, all the extra bits you need etc etc. Then spend hours driving around places to race, and weekends staying over at meetings. Starts going into crazy money.
Few grands worth of stuff in total.... :eek:
 
Rich1988 said:
All leccy at the moment had three 2 channel generibegginer planes and now have a couple of 3 channel C-17E biplanes there pretty nice and really responsive with the larger servo arms on I do keep crashing though >.< :p so 5 in total spent well over £300 so far enjoying it though.
What planes do you have?
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Hitec Sky Scooter
GWS Formosa
GWS E-Starter
GWS DHC2 Beaver
Foamy Factory Yak-54
BF-109
Some cheap 2 channel 9" wingspan thing
Ultrafly BAe Hawk

Then my nitro one is a Galaxy Models Magician (50 inch wingspan).

Now i think im at the £1200 stage, or more. Accually i dont want to think about it. :p
 
Wow some nice cars on here, ive just got a Tamiya TB-01 and TB-02, the TB-01 is a great rally car. Ive modified the suspension on my TB-01 rally car so that it is a good 22mm of the ground, it flys over my local bmx track using an 8.4v battery.

Mark
 
saitrix said:
Hitec Sky Scooter
GWS Formosa
GWS E-Starter
GWS DHC2 Beaver
Foamy Factory Yak-54
BF-109
Some cheap 2 channel 9" wingspan thing
Ultrafly BAe Hawk

Then my nitro one is a Galaxy Models Magician (50 inch wingspan).

Now i think im at the £1200 stage, or more. Accually i dont want to think about it. :p
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I use galaxy models to :) , whats the E starter like? was considering buying but couldnt really find any useful reviews, Im going to wait my next progression will be using Li POLY batteries, no tusing them at the moment because they can explode if sharply bashed jolted etc and meo being nooby pilot who crashes a lot would probably cause it to a splode in my face :p
 
Rich1988 said:
I use galaxy models to :) , whats the E starter like? was considering buying but couldnt really find any useful reviews, Im going to wait my next progression will be using Li POLY batteries, no tusing them at the moment because they can explode if sharply bashed jolted etc and meo being nooby pilot who crashes a lot would probably cause it to a splode in my face :p
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E-Starter is a real nice plane. a good stable 4 channel plane, can do simple aerobatics with it all fine. Then if you want to go up you can move all the electronics from the E-Starter to the Formosa which is a nice viceless pattern plane. I fully recoomend you to get the E-Starter.
 
Used to be into it - unfortunately I never actually enjoyed driving them as much as building them and tinkering.

From what I remember, and this was quite a while ago, I had

Tamiya Bearhawk (ancient cruddy thing)
HPI RS4 (the original, with gear driven rear box)
Tamiya TA02 (with every concievable hop up)
Yokomo YZ-10
Kyosho Lazer ZX-R

I always used to stuff high power 10 turn Dirtinator motors in them, sometimes powered by 7 cell packs (wherever these would fit!) and Tempest ESCs...

Used to get most of them to silly speeds with very long gearing, perhaps thats why I didnt enjoy them much :)
 
Hey, was searching the forums and came accross this, thought I'd add my bit!

I bought my first ever RC vehicle a month or so ago, an ACME Conquistador. It's a nitro 1:10 truck and I figured at £130 it would be a good intro to the world of RC. Well think again, its PANTS!! Clutch broke twice and the rear diff disintegrated, all after about 2 tanks of fuel after breaking it in! :eek: Turns out its a common fault with the diffs on these things.

So screw it I thought, and I went and spent a bit more money and got a proper 1:8 scale truck, an HPI Savage. :cool: So far I've been pretty busy and I'm still running in the engine (just done 1 tank at idle - took well over an hour too!!) but over the summer it will be getting thrashed!!

Some pics I took while it was looking spankers:





So basically when I have time it will be getting properly run in and getting real dirty. :D I'm still at the complete n00b stage of "ooh whats this" whilst turning the steering wheel, and still learning how to get the engine to fire into life. Looking forward to learning more!
 
Not Electric BUT

When I was into the hobby I spent to much £500 on the buggy, £200 on a handset and that was cheap from Japan, 2 £100 servos cheap from Japan as well £200 engine

I sold my buggy just the other day to a member of this forum

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I've got a Traxxas T-Maxx Nitro... in the hobby shop for 18 months waiting to get fixed. Gonna be picking it up in a week LOL! (they forgot about me...and i kinda forgot about it)

I also fly RC airplanes... only one flyable at the moment but ive got 3 sitting at home waiting for me to get them back into a flyable state.

My current one is a 42" flying wing, brushless running on 12 cells... Level flight around 60mph, nearly unlimmited vertical performance its a BEAST.
 
I have an old Nitro Kyosho Sandmaster, which to this day has never worked without something dropping off or being a devil to start. Its taught me how to make engines work tho. Currently i use a powerdrill to start it coz i got through 3 pull starters in a matter of months. It sufferes from the minor problem of when the batteries die, it just keep going, and if its on full throttle at the time, it just keeps going untill it hits a poor unsuspecting hedge. It looks a bit like a combination of this:
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And this:
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I also have a rather rare HPI RS4 MT electric truck which is a fantastic looking beast but doesn't actually work that well. Fried 2 motors and 2 batteries with it and gave up for the time being. All in all i've had some very bad luck with r/c, so i decided to pour money into pc's instead. It looks almost exactly like this:
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I intend to restore both to full working order this summer. Supprisingly enough the sandmaster actually worked for the first time in its life last time i used it... less supprisingly something dropped off again...
 
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Get something like a venom failsafe - if you lose power or the thing loses reception from your transmitter it will do what you set it to do. I set mine to slam the brakes on :)
 
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