the weather has been pretty nice and sunny, but everyone here has a sinus infection. emilee(my daughter) stayed home monday, tuesday and wednesday scott stayed home. and the weekends have been way to busy with basketball on saturday and sotball pitching climic on sunday...:)

when i was kid i don't remember being on the go so much. but tuesday mey a pic or two post of the hardware that is in my back locking the newly fused sections together. monday i am having a out patient "procedure" to removed it, since it is coming loose on it's own.


stay safe everyone.

Broadband? Whats that? I thought it was a girl rock band.

May have been a girl band back in the 40's.... "broad" band....

I'll be racing again tomorrow, supposed to be partly cloudy and 40 degrees, should be nice not driving to the race in a snow storm!

Well the winter is over for me.Not the cold, rain, and wind just the quite isolated feeling that you get after awhile of having no one around. The Spring Program staff starting showing up last night ane we will be in full operation in two weeks.

Just yesterday I was able to drive the big tractor over all our roads. Still sinks in a few spots but not to deep.

Good luck Tom at the race. I hear your paying out 3 to 1 for a win, place, or show.....
:cool:

Good luck Tom at the race. I hear your paying out 3 to 1 for a win, place, or show.....
:cool:

Yeah, in Peanut M&Ms!!

Peanut M&M's you say. Might be worth the trip. I'll check out the exchange rate.
How did you do?

hi guys how is everyones super sunday shaping up?

who do you guys think will win?

i think the PATS wil win. not my team but A VERY COMPLETE "TEAM"/


i have 4 gmail invits if any one wants one.

email me at peter.ronbeck@gmail.com
and put invit in the subjetct

Hey Bill, I only did So-so. Had my share of mistakes so the M&M payout is minimal.

Superbowl is up for grabs @ half time, could go either way based on play so far.

Go Pats! Oh, they went already! Cool! Should be a workplace full of happy people tomorrow. Actually all the real pats fans are already taking the day off. they figure they will either be celebrating or sulking and hungover ineither case. Just don't get the need to drink oneself into a coma over a football game. As good an excuse as any I guess, if you are looking for one.

We all enjoyed the game although it was more tnese than I had hoped for.

I was kind of hoping philly would win, just because they were such underdogs. I actually didn't care either way, I watched the first 3 quarters for the commercials. Wierd huh?

Being the underdog was how The Pats got their start! they way the Pats played last night was pretty sad. Their winning will just make life aorund here more bearable and that is all good.

My local track is getting ready to reopen! I haven't been over there (to help) but it looks great from the photos they are posting. They will have a huge (~90X50') indoor offroad track and a somewhat smaller onroad track. That will make it tougher to just go in and practice as they will be racing four days/nights a week. I guess as long as you don't have crystal conflicts you could practice offroad while they were racing onroad. We shall see. Unfortunatley it sounds like the offroad track is unheated. Again. At least it has been warming up around here so it wont be unbearable. Not until the next freeze, that is.

A couple of Salamander (Torpedo) heaters would take the chill off if there's no built in heat.

Paitence... Spring is coming... March is Next month! I plan to get the bike back out in March!

They had one of those at the old place but they were trying to use that to thaw out the pits. A 50 X 100 foot area would take more than a couple Torpedos. We shall see. Jesse and I are planning to go over there tomorrow afternoon and help out some. I feel bad I haven't made the trip yet but life has been.....lifelike.:rolleyes:

I hear the place is pretty great. We shall see. It will have all the amenities one could ask for: bathrooms, shop, cafe, on and off-road tracks, it is closer. Now all we need is to find out what sort of surface they are putting down and get the right tires. Oh, I guess I need to rebuild my truck and learn to drive but that will happen!

Sounds like a cool place. Hope they make it a nice racing surface. 2 torpedos in a building that size should allow for 45-50 degree weather in the cold winter as long as the building is sealed up well enough. The building we run in during the winter is larger than that -
http://www.rcpimp.com/rc/uploads/Washtenaw%20Pits.jpg
it has 3 heaters hanging from the ceiling and on the coldest days keeps it at about 55-60 degrees in there all day.

This is the track
http://www.rcpimp.com/rc/uploads/SE%20View%20Of%20Track.JPG

It's a fun place to race!

Looks nice Tom! I guess it all depends on how well sealed up it is! Not having seen the place yet I cna't say. They sure are putting a lot of work into it though.

What? Did everybody die/ go on vacation? I know I have nothing r/c to say but four days wihtout a post? that is sad.

Hope everybody is well. We dodged the latest snow bullet- we got rain while they got over 2 feet to the north of us. All good. Keep it where people can use it. And get rid of it!

Had to share this. Took the wife out for a B'day/ Valentine's Day dinner and a movie last night. Went to see 'Hitch'. I have to say that that is the funniest movie I have seen in ages! Definitely a "date" movie but well worth the coin! Will Smith at his best doing what he does best.

Our track should be open in the next few weeks and although I have no intention of racing right away, I have to start down that road. So, today I hope to spend major time digging out the shop so I can have the room to work! It is such a pigsty it is scary.

The wife and I went to see Hitch yesterday too. We both liked it but thought it could have been better. We do agree on the Will Smith thing.

My son went out racing yesterday, I opted to stay home with the wife for "personal" reasons........ :P

Can't wait for Spring! Got a bunch of goodies for the Motorcycle that should make riding around this season very enjoyable! Just need a couple rainsuits so I don't have to worry about weather as much.

i did the valintine/aniversary night out two weeks ago. this whole week has been a blur. i had the Ti srews and rod removed from my back monday. my daughter emilee fell playing on the monkey bars and broke her wrist wednesday, and friday we had to take her in to get a "cast, cast". they just used a splint for first two days for the swelling to go down.

the only rc thing i have done is rebuilt my son's tlt back into a stock'ish size using my p2300 chassis and the tobee WB kit. hoping next week or two i will get new tranny part for that truck.

weather wise it has been mostly sunny. and our mointains finaly have some snow for the skiers. they just opened last week.... witch means water will be tight this summer.

as always stay warm and safe;)

Peter, you and your family have GOT to stop with the medical stuff! Man! So, does it feel any different without all your hardware? Hope the wrist heals well and quickly!

the top screw was digging into my side and the small of my back(it was backing out on it's own). so that is gone. but i can feel were the screws came out. one of my forums friends i should use the rod for a bumper on the tlt! :)

feeling a bit better everyday. now the fun begins..work hardening PT.

and thanks chris:)

Wow Peter, that would be a rather unique front bumper.

My stainless/titanium hardware store is permanent in my leg.

what did you do tom?

i will post some pics, just like to share or maybe it's over share ;)
http://img64.exs.cx/img64/9729/tlt0717nb.th.jpg (http://img64.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img64&image=tlt0717nb.jpg)

http://img64.exs.cx/img64/9919/tlt0725zh.th.jpg (http://img64.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img64&image=tlt0725zh.jpg)

Nice hardware! Yup, definitely bumper material! :thumbsup:

Yeah, Got the curve in it and everything!

My leg got shattered back in 1995 when a ladder slipped out from under me and I fell/bailed off down about 8ft to a concrete floor. A little more than an inch of the weight bearing bone was shattered about 3.5 inches up from my ankle and the 3.5 inches between split in half, the other little bone snapped in 2 places. I was laid up non-weight bearing for 6 months and took a year to walk without a cane. Pretty messed up, Doc told me 25% of the people that break their leg that way loose their leg.

dang sounds messy and very painfull! glad your up and runinng ;)

i told the i was thinking earings and bracelet! lol

they were thinking of leaving the longer screw in my hip. and for me if they had to mess with it all, just take it out.

It was painful & I still cant spend all day on my feet. My ankle never fully recovered & I don't have full range of motion in it, so if I over do it it takes alot of Ibuprofin to get me up and walking the next day. Sometimes I wonder if a prothstetic would have been better, but that's only when it hurts alot.

you know it gotta hurt when your wishing it was gone!

but i hope you have more good then bad days. i have already been bitten by the arthritis bug im my knees and back. how do you do on the drivers stand racing?

and dang it who wrenching/running/buying parts for the RC fleet?

waiting on my plays with toys chassis, and a tower order and a bigger back order order from them. and i sent my pede tranny for some R&D with a rc company so i am waitng for that as well. you know i really hate waiting for things :)

also trying to find some missing traxxas shock parts to send to a friend.

:)

What sort of missing shock parts?

I'm fine for the most part now, I just have to be real careful when I Marshall. One wrong step & I'm hurtin! But as the years go by it takes less Ibuprofin to get me going the next day, either I'm a little better or I've developed a higher tolerence for pain! Generally when I get home from a long day of racing I down 4 Tylenols when I go to bed & then 3 more when I get up & I'm ok for the day with minimal limp.
My wife says she can tell when we go out and walk alot (amusement parks & stuff) that my walk changes as the day wears on I end up with a full bore limp at the end of the day.
But I ain't gonna complain, I still got my foot!

Sent your Pede tranny out? Someone else working on a TLT crawler chassis with the pede tranny?

By the way, why is everybody so hot on using the Pede tranny in these projects? Couldn't a Losi or AE tranny work just as well? Or is it just that the sliders & outdrives on the pede better suited to the adaptation? Wasn't too long ago the Losi Sport had slider shafts.

i am missing shock caps, spring retainers, the shock ball end, and the top spring holder.

well the pede tranny is strong, easy to down gear, and parts are everywere. before any custom truck using txt/emaxx/x factor/twin force/mad force axle parts ran maxx trannies. now people are using pede trannies with better results. the maxx 2.5 shafts mount easy as well. and a few have made the switch to revo safts as well.

well not a new chassis but a "new" tranny for a current chassis.

but found out the tsc-10 is close to send out.

Yup, for a crawler the Pede tranny is great. A bit too low geared for real speed with the TLT axles but way nicer than the belt drive that the TLT came with.

Peter, let me see what I have in terms of shock bits at home. I probably have what you need just in busted up old shock parts. As for the ball end, I would think you would have tons of that sort of thing from link building for the TLTs! (but I have a few dozen of those as well)

the standard traxxas ball ends are not round smooth, so the spring cups pop off. and the round tamiya ones i have are way to long or to narrow to hold the cup up. the ball ends are cheap. just a few months ago i wne through and made a set of four of the rear pede shocks with maxx springs for a friend( i had a about 16 ultra shocks at one point and not sure were ther all went). but he has moved up to AE shocks but the traxxas shocks seem to have walked off.

how is the prp truck treating you?

i had read they may produce a more crawler style body. and was disapointed that the one you got wasn't their best crawler design.

thanks chris

Could you simply use Traxxas balends complete and forget about whatever came with their shocks? I always assumed they were the same thing. I have got bags of those! I picked up lots for my Clods and then decided they just weren't strong enough. And I sold the clods so... :) I think the big packs come with both the short and the long ones. Find out what you need and I can help out on that at least.

the PRP is cool. I am in the midst of winter here so I haven't driven it much. I don't have a good crawling spot so I pretty much have the truck set-up as a tough truck rather than a crawler. I can see how you could have more articulation if you didn't have all the stuff out over the wheels and perhaps their new chassis will deal with that. I like what I got. It was pretty much an impulse buy but it is cool.

Peter,
I found a bunch of stuff for ya! Maybe not what you need but... Basically I found a pair of shocks with the upper spring retainer but no ends on them. Scrounged a bit and found two lower spring retainers but they are different! One is probably a Losi. The problem is they are different heights. Looking at them in profile, one slopes down to the ballend while the other is flat. Which is which? I also found, in my bag of ballends, a bunch of the round ended ballends that fit snuggly into the lower retainers. This was what I found on the way out the door this morning when I finally remembered! LOL. There is probably more stuff. If you need/want any of this, PM me you addy and I can send them out.

very cool. hopping to hit the lhs to see if they got their rpm spring retainers back in stock. i should have a new oem set of four from my big bores. but i don't. when i started the tlt i was going for heavy yellow truck and bought the yellow rpm spring cups...ohh well thanks chris i will pm you after i hit the lhs.

thanks chris he was able to pick up the rest of pede(it has big bores on it). so he is set with shocks and i am sending him his chassis and tlt spool. but thanks again you guys here are the best!

:)

Hi guys, remember me? In the old days I hung out on these threads. That was before someone invented winter in Southern California.

Our last big rain happened in late January, the one I sent the storm report to you on Chris, and I have been working non-stop to repair the damage. Well last night most of that work was undone by another storm that passed through. The good news is that much of what was completed did not completely go away so I will be able to repair most of the damage very fast. I will also be able to improve much of the damaged areas better than I did the first time.

RC wise I'm not doing a thing. It has just been to wet to drive or fly around here. One of our flying buddies took his wing out and was having a great flight until he went to land in what looked like a big grassy field. As soon as the wing dropped below grass level it dug in and we saw a big splash. By the time we got to it it was soaking wet. Electrics were toasted, the wing covering was coming off, and the entire thing will need to be rebuilt with new parts. Just not a price I'm willing to pay.

Glad everyone is doing well.

Take care.

Bill-

Sorry to hear your woes are continuing! :(

Are there kids back at camp already, getting evac'ed when Noah comes by in his little boat? maybe you SHOULD pave the road! That would make it the first one on that end of the island wouldn't it? A little touch of the modern world, just for you! Kidding, of course!

havent' you figured out how to put that back hoe onto a 6 channel radio yet?

hang in there.

We got hit with a snow storm again yesterday, 6".... Sheesh. Just get rid of the last snow with the exception of the piles and here comes some more. But all I gotta do is shovel it out of the way, not rebuild my road. Does that make me lucky? :rolleyes:

I'm tired today, Raced all day Saturday, Sunday went to a sports bar to watch the Daytona & then came home to shovel the driveway...... Probably should have called in today, Would have been nice to relax the day away. But oh well.

My son who moved to Maryland last November suprised us by coming home for the weekend, my wife and I were in bed sleeping when all the sudden there was a knock on the bedroom door at 11:15pm and there he was... Kind of freaked us out at first, but what a pleasant suprise. Too cool. He's heading home today, but he got to expierience a snow storm this winter! They haven't had more than 2" at a time where he lives (South of Baltimore near BWI Airport), and when they do everything closes down and people drive like shiznit.

Your son comes home and He doesn't shovel? Trust me, when my son is old enough to move away and then come back, he will be doing the shovelling! :)

We have your storm right now. Woke up to a couple inches on the ground. Again, like you, right after we finally got rid of the old stuff. We are heading up north to go skiing tomorrow so it is all good from that point of view but it gets old here at home.

At least I don't have to work on President's Day! Ha- Ha!

It looks like another day or two of this storm front and then we have a couple of days to dry out before it starts all over again. This gets old.

Enjoy your light snow because when this front gets to you guys things will not change for the better.

The only complaint I have with this job is the fact that we are always working on holidays. It was never a bad deal until Kevin started to have days off from school. Now every time he is off I'm working.

Ha! Well, I can relate somewhat but with TWO boys sometimes the only peace I get is at work! They can be so brotherly some times. Right now they each have friends over and are in separate rooms doing their own thing and it IS peaceful! I'm just hanging out listening to my tunes.

Even spent some shop time this morning playing with the TLT carcass. Stlll fiddling with what to do with the old chassis. Seems like I can do almost a complete swap from the PRP to the other to get what I am looking for. The chassis is shorter enough that i can lose the inch of wheelbase without remaking links which is all good! Haven't a clue what to do about the shocks just yet. Need like a 3.5" shock which isn't so easy to find. Gives me something to think about while the snow falls.

I picked up a "serious" battery pack for Jesse for his b'day. These are matched by one of the monster truck guys on RCMT (JAy Jordan). He is an ace at motor rebuilding and has taken over Jetpack batteries as well. Paid some serious coin for it (actually got two but Jess only gets one!). It will be fun to see just how much better a "real" pack is than our old unmatched packs. They will be strictly race packs and not bashing packs. Assumng Jess actually gets racing again. We will be going over next Sunday to watch the inaugural trophy race! They hope to have some racing this Thursday to test out the system but we wont make it for that! Jess needs some serious track time with Tom's old XXX4 before I am going to let him enter a big race. I am going to try some of the weekly races but have no interest in the madhouse that is a trophy race. Too much stress on an old guy that does so badly. Hard to have fun and in theory that is why one does this, right?

Ha! Yeah Bill, our weatherman is already talking about the storm that has been stuck over California for a few days heading our way with some more "winter" for us.

Chris, "real" matched packs? what kind of numbers you got on those?

I'll let you know when I get them. He is building them up and will send them out this week. In any case though, he would be using the newest 3300's whereas my "best" 2400 pack is about a 1.13V SMC, if that!

It has been a long time sence all three of us were on line at the same time.

:thumbsup:

Of course I missed that note as I moved on. :cry: I miss Q too.

If your best is a 1.13 2400 right now, you'll be blown away by the numbers on a good 3300 pack. If it's a 30 amp match a 1.16+ will be decent, a 1.17 is a good pack, a 1.180 to 1.185 very good and 1.186+ is excellent. All with over 400 sec of runtime!

i also have some older 3300 packs but they are unmatched so I have no idea what they are. They are probab ly of the same vintage though so I am looking forward to these.

I have read a bunch of stuff on the way people number their packs and until I see Jay's label I wont know whether he uses the .90 cutoff with 5000 sec. runtime, etc. I have never heard anything but awesome reviews of Jetpacks packs so... I will let you know!

Wow, almost 4 full days....

And ya jsut had to go and ruin the silence! :p