wOw

look how far we have fallen !


hope everyone is well.
been wrenching on a proto type tlt part all week and chargin some batts to give it run through.



:)

peter

I need a snorkle to run my trucks these days. It has rained buckets here for four of the last six weekends. :(

Headed over to the local HobbyTown for some motor spray just now and it is closed! There is a sign saying that as of yesterday it is closed forever! I had no idea they were having any sort of trouble. I am guessing they lost their lease or that there was a death in the family or something. Totally stinks though. There are no other shops any where near here that I know of.

After fulfilling my Mom's Day duties I got plenty of time in the shop today. It is raining agian. What else is there to do? Got the XXXS painted!!!!!
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This is a Losi body and a Losi car so I blindly followed their cut lines. So much for faith. I had to do quite a bit more carving to make the wheels clear the body but I thought it came out OK.

Got it out in one of the drier moments and it was fun. Briefly. It had a strange glitching problem that ended up with it running awya from Jesse. (it is always Jesse... :rolleyes: :p ). I got it back into the shop and found that I had wired the capacitor to the wrong leads! Instead of being on the battery leads it was across the motor's! No wonder it left! And, to make it worse, it was totally melted from the current. Luckily I didn't kill my fancy GM ESC. (I think).


Spent the rest of the time trying to resurrect a previously sweet Fantom P-94 handwound motor. The brushes were GONE. The comm was hurting. Al that is better but I still can't get one brush to move freely. Maybe time for a new endbell. Which sent me to HobbyTown. *sigh*.

And now the weekend is over.

Bummer for you Chris. No LHS anymore :(

No "Pede abuse" for me this weekend, I raced Saturday & did fair to poorly. Couldn't catch a break in my truck main and finished yucky. Not a lap down, but no where near where I should have finished based on how my truck would run.

Still have some left over charged packs to use up, so I believe I'll be Pede bashing this week! Wheee!

No comments on the paint job. Nobody likes my bumblebee....

I thought it looked more like a "Danger" insignia.

chris the paint reminds me of the heavey stickers we marked 75lbs and higher packages with at fedex,, "!cation team lift!" ;) but it does look good.

tom i have some e-maxx questions for you. a friend down under is interested in the Emaxx. but he is worried about parts breakage. since all his parts will be mial order from the states. the truck will be used as a basher to replace his savage(the neigbors were getting on hm about the noise :().

i have never heard meny complaints other then it eats batteries and sort run times with mod motors. he is thinking of the new novak maxx Bl as well.

thanks for the help. and hope everyone is well!
:)

On the Maxx - Same as with anything, the more power you put into it the more maintenance it will need. If he has good batteries he can get 7-9 minutes (or more) of run time in stock form depending on how heavy a finger he has. Run time will increase with the Brushless, but may cause some things to wear or break faster.

I would just run it stock and keep an eye on it replacing parts as necessary. If he does put the BL system in it he might want to keep certain parts on hand.

He should stock the following:
Outdrives
Idler gears
Slider shafts
a spare diff
Front & rear bulkheads
Maybe some skidplates.

He can get all that cheap on E-Bay, not that he HAS to have them, but if he has spares on hand it will get him going again quick should those common parts fail.

thank yo very much!

hope everyone has a good friday the 13th ;)

Hey, I like that! Maybe I can find some hazard stickers! That would apply to my driving skills. :p

Hi Guys! :wave:

Hi to you too! Things have been pretty crazy around here and the trucks haven't seen any attention to speak of. I have moved them out of my way a couple times but that is all. Pretty sad. My guys have completley lost interest.

Spent this evening building Sean a set of stilts. I had built him some a while back and he keeps wanting BIGGER. These are two feet off the ground. Of course Mom wants him to have a spotter whenever he is up on them. I figure he can do pretty well on his own. If/when he falls though, it is like a big tree coming down. where is he going to land?

Hi to all. Hope everyone is doing well. Me, getting along. No RC at all. Thats it, everything thing else is just fluff.:lol:

Raking leaves is on my agenda for the weekend..... Gotta clean up my campsite up North. Whee!

My weekend- completley devoid of r/c should be excellent! I am going to a trail building school with a bunch of other mountain bikers. Two days of instruction and practice on the latest techniques on repairing, siting, designing, laying out and building multi-user trails. That plus camping, riding, partying and SUN should make it awesome.

And I just feel the need to take tomorrow off to get ready! All is good in that little part of my world.

been working on the tlts as always but made some head way. had a fun little bash session with a friend yesterday. broke another servo horn on the big truck. has alloy ones coming in today at the lhs.

but the family and my friend saw the 12:01am showing of star wars episode 3. was good, way better then 1&2 but no big supprises, just nice. was a bit of a weird time in line. a handfull of people dressed and palyed with light sabers and such.

well happy early weekend to all!

Hi all!

Just got back from an awesome but EXHAUSTING weekend of trail work and mtb riding. Somehow we managed to avoid most of the rain and got lots of stuff done. Learned tons as well. Too bad none of it is applicable to r/c! :) One guy in the group was lamenting that I hadn't brought something to play with. Turns out he was an old r/cer. Had one of the original Hornets! He was shocked when I told him what that would be worth NIB today!

I am beat. Way too much work and fun. Need to spread that out over a full week maybe. Not that we would work any more slowly. Probably just drive ourselves into the ground.

The local track had their first ever Enduro over the weekend on their new outdoor track. Thaty sucker is HUGE! I haven't driven on it but the photos make it look like the 1/8th scale bugs had more than enough room to let it rip. I have no idea how long it was taking to do a lap. Looked like fun though. Hopefully I can get out there soon and try it out.

Hey all!

Hope everybody is having a grand Memorial Day weekend! This is actually the first sunny weekend since maybe March? It hit 70! People are dropping from the heat! :p

Got in a couple great mtb rides with Jesse. He is coming along nicely! Especially when he is on his Mom's bike! She has a nice light ride that actually works! Lots of fun. Hopefully it is the start of a regular thing.

Now, onto the relevant stuff. I am about ready to give up the trucks. I am fully convinced that the kids could care less about them taking up basement space. They haven't touched or mentioned them in weeks. jess was all hot to race his XXX4 and then nothing. I know, he is a teen and as such, expected to be that way but... I have "looked" at the trucks occasionally. I have thoughts of projects but have taken no action towards them. It sucks that I have so much work at work. That was where I got most of my machining done for the Clods. Now it is a non-starter. And if I had the time, I have nobody to run them with. I have already decided to put the XXXS on the sales block. I will probably just bring it out to the track and put it in their used display. I had hoped to use it on their indoor track but I have had it out ONCE since I bought it. I have better uses for my money than to tie it up sitting in the basement. I might put together a basic Clod chassis or two and sell off the trucks I have. Don't know about the TLT. That is pretty cool and I could see keeping that for kicks. The Pede and the XXXT? They stay! I don't care how out of the hobby I get, I can always see taking them out. I just wish I had others to play with. *sob*.

Of course this may all change if the weather stays better. Hard to even think about it with weeks of rain... Just needed to sulk in public for a while. I am over it. Thanks for listening.

sorry tohear, but i do understand. the weather family and life in general doesn't understnad the rc hobby. wiht ahat you do sell i hope it goes well. and you always seem to get a good price.

i have been hooked up with a race ready roller pro4. a friend who manges the lhs whants me to try 10th scale stock. i also got a m-18 roller, well it cam with 2 servos, a spy esc and some extra bits as well. i finally fixed the servoi in the mini cooper and plan on some esc swapping. want to get the evader st runnig for a little off road speed. i had put a new 16x2 in it(last summer and ran it once!) and the esc i put in it doesn't work right. so i have to figure out what i am going to do with it!.


other then the norm, my kids each are playing ball. scott's team finished the season in secound. they start a tourney nest weekend. and Emilee is pitching well, but well her team isn't muchof a team(i will leace it at that). she has held up well and has pitchedf 90% of the innings for her team.

hope everyone else is good and healthy.

I had a pretty good weekend, even managed to snap a couple pics of the Pede in action! Of course I had to have my son drive while I took pics, it's kinda hard to drive and take pics at the same time! These are pics of it up at the campgrounds in Harrison we have property at. Enjoy!

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And a final one doing Donuts....
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Tell me he kgt the second back on all fours! Are those the All-T's on that? Look pretty nice.

Yup those are All-T's, I actually find that I like them alot.

I wish I could say my son saved it after the bicycle trick, but he didn't. He did a tumble turd and ended up on it's lid. I Have a real short grainy video I took with the digi cam that shows him doing the same thing but landing on all fours, just don't know how I'd post it.

tom nice pics!

thanks for sharing. do you plan on trimming the body, or do the tires not rub on it much? no running of the new cars i got. i did pick up a new body fo rthe pro4 yesterday. i got the new proline mazda 6. not a i car i love, but i am getting the same body for my new m-18 as well. going with a simple 3 color paint job.

but how does this sound for a color combo to you guys?.
a custom metalic yellow covering about 2/3 thinds of the body(car will be cut length wise by the colors), a pearl white 1/2 inch stirpe and the test silver or charcoal grey. nothing fancy but not a one color paint job either.

well we have been a slow bunch for a few weeks. we had relly nice weather middle of last week through monday. we hit the mid 90's on saturday and the low 70's monday. the rain has moved back in wiht a balmy 50's temp.

well later all,
and thanks for the color help.
-peter-

Peter, I like the sounds of that color scheme! Post pix if/when...

Well, we actually broke 60 degrees today! (it was nice over the weekend but I feel like whining). Still no sun but I will take what I can get. First day of June and I am stilling riding to work in long sleeves and pants. Totally wrong.

Just heard that the local trqck has stopped on-road racing for the summer. I guess that means I will be selling the sedan on eBay. Or here perhaps. Oh well. Would have liked to keep it local.

The only time I've noticed any tire rub is when I'm turning and the suspension compresses.

thanks chris.

i mixed a custom yellow the other day but have had things come up. i am getting the okay to go to school for retraining. emilee crashed into another kids at reccess and had a ER run to the dentist and baseball playoffs start today. was hopping to have the bodies masked, but i haven't gotten t it with everything else going on.

have had a bit of a comedy of errors trying to get my pro4 running. always missing something!lol, first it was servo mounts( a pro4 only part) now i am missing some counter sink screws to mount them:) ohh well just means another trip to the lhs.

but i did get a okay batt for $10 used at the track. someothing to get me around for a few practice sesions. so i need to get the body painted asap.

later all.

peter
:)

I got tired of not having the right screw and placed a large order with microfasteners for a bunch of stainless stuff. Now I have tons of just about everything I could need. Well, I actually didn't get any metric which was a mistake but the Losis and MY stampede are all good! :thumbsup:

i have a ton of self tapping screws, but that is not what i neeed. lol

never is. i have been tempted to order some from rcscrewz. i have their tlt kit and it's okay. want something a little stronger though. who did you get yours from?

Microfasteners.com (http://www.microfasteners.com/) When you think about what you pay at the LHS, their prices are crazy low. Assuming you want 25-100 of a given screw size. :rolleyes:

thanks for the link chris. i will have to figure out a big buy with a firend. you can never have to many screws ;) i think for now i am going to grab a few at the lhs and to get her running. still need to read the instructions for the esc. it's one of the ones you set the power curve and what now with a setup hand held unit,

maybe smarter then i am! if i get the lid painted tonight i may throw a different esc init for now. having to make some phone calls today. got the okay for a retraining program.

thanks again and hope all are well.

It looks like RC truck and cars are becoming a thing of the past. I’ve discovered that even though I live in a great place to run them I just don’t seem to do so anymore. So much has changed over the years. Kevin’s maxx sits under the bed collecting dust and all our other stuff is in boxes. The big discussion this evening was well if you want to become dive certified who is going to pay for the 2k in gear, lessons, and stuff.



Anyway, he is starting to find odd jobs around, looking at thirteen years of stuff that has value, and making a long term commitment to something and stop just “exploring”. We no sooner get his quad finished and now its dive equipment, I’m done. All this is to say that depending on his approach there might be a lot of good RC stuff on the market soon.



I know you guys don’t want this stuff but I think he will sell it very low and I’m sure you could roll it over to people you know and run with and make a few bucks. I don’t know anyone who would want it but you guys so I thought I would ask.



Having gone from a daily poster, to reader, and now to the sell off and good by phase of Hobby Talk I’m sad. Chris, Tom, and Peter you guys are great, I think of you as friends.



Bill

well i am one going to miss anyone here who leaves the hobby. but i do hope you hang out and see what is going on. had to go and talk to some school district admin today. some issues have poped up at the kid's school. things that should be a non issue(safty!).

i have been giving the go a head with picking a retraining couse/program/degree. last time the i was denigned. i head in for a "interveiw" and testing session at the local comunity colledge. hope it goes well.

and ope to hear from everyone soon. rc or not.

:)
-peter-

Bill, I can certainly relate! Both to the lack of driving (as usual, it has to do with friends to do it with) and the ever changing expensive desires of a 13 yr old! Jesse has gone through so many hobby and entertainment changes I couldn't count. I am trying to be philisophical about it. Each one has given me the chance to spend time (and money) with him. he has learned a lot, we have had fun. Right now Jesse wants a new computer... (I'd rather have him getting dive certified if it got him more excersize). I have suggested he sell off his buggy but he is still resisting that so maybe there is still hope!

Don't let him sell his stull to cheap! have HIM check out the Traxxas sales page and the HobbyTalk sale page and get a real sense of the value of the trucks. As for you, didn't Q hook you up with an old Hornet? Although they have re released those that might be worth something now! What all do you have?

Keep in touch.

Peter, Good luck on the interivews and all that follows!

Hey Bill, I can understand the RC thing where you are, not too many people out there to run with and running alone can get boring after a while. Being on a "sparsely" populated island doesn't help either, there's a good RC crowd on the mainland but getting to them or them getting to you becomes kinda impractical.

I'm sure that if I didn't have a good solid racing scene here in Southeast Michigan my RCing days would have been done years ago (and alot of $$ saved/spent on other stuff). I've made alot of friends thru RC, and the larger part of the RC community in the Michigan area know who I am.

If you do sell off the RC stuff you don't have to say goodbye. There's no rules that say you MUST have RCs to chat on a RC message board! If that was the case we all would have been booted A LONG TIME AGO for taking up space in a Stampede forum talking about everything but Stampedes...... Like now! :lol:

Do what Chris says and have him check the Buy/Sell forums to get a "worth" idea.

Thanks guys for the understanding, kind words, and good advice. We went into Avalon last night for the school's awards ceramony, Kevin recived a math award, and had a chance to talk through most of this issue on the way home. He understands our point and is deciding what he wants to do.

He said, 1) I will always keep the pede, just for fun. 2) He wants to be dive certified so he will sell the rest of his stuff to get the gear.

After looking at the going rate for a used emaxx I realized he will not generate alot of cash with his RC stuff. So we're still thinking.

Take care.
Bill

Tell him congrats on the award!

Must be nice (not) to have a short 1.5 hour drive back from the nearest "town" :p. I think it's a good thing to know what you want and have that goal to work towards. No, the maxx etc. may not get him much but it is a start. Hey, he could sell your Jeep!;) Not that anybody could drive it without the island permit. You do keep that locked up, right?

Nah, the jeep sits ready to go with the key in it. Other than locking up the warehouse, ranges, and camp store at night and keeping the medications and flammable stuff locked up nothing is locked. Nice to live in such a place.

I have a lot of respect for the people who drive the island everyday. It is a hard thing to do. If I do it more than once a week I start going nuts. But when you do it every once and awhile it's a great drive. The trick is doing it slow and easy enjoy the views and have a nice talk. If you hurry you might gain ten minutes but you could loose your life if something goes wrong.

Kevin has another week of school and then I think he will start his sell off. Another option is having Mark do an ebay thing. He has been thinking about doing it anyway. He just got married though and life is all different for him now so he is looking for the time to do it.

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the new paint jobs i have done for the M-18 and the pro4. both mounted but no tails or stickers on them.

Cool! Big and little brother! They going to have identical stickers as well? That would be trick!

Cool! Big and little brother! They going to have identical stickers as well? That would be trick!

the cars are both proline mazda 6-s. the stickers will be close. but i think a little different. i want to have some one18th.com stickers on the micro. and i should eb getting some custom stickers with my name on them. hoprefully soon.

and thank you very much. going to try and crry the design over to the rock pleazer i have for the tlt-10 as well. will mask it and decide from there.

WOW! No posts since the 12th? What y'all doin?

I was on vacation in Paducah KY from the 14th thru the 19th. Here's a pic of what I was doing........
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A bike Rally for intruderalert.com

This was at a gas stop at the Southern end of "Land between the Lakes" in Tennessee on one of the group rides, we kinda took it over.....
That's my bike in the Right forground with the 2 red helmets on the seat.

Had a blast!

Here's another pic when we had a group ride to "Garden of the gods" in Illinois

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And here's my wife at one of the scenic overlooks
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I'm bummed that my vacation is over :(

Yes indeed, doesn't it stink when vacations end? I don't even know when I will get mine this year. August for sure but not exactly when or how long.

No posts as I have nothing RC to say at all. Still planning to sell off most of our stuff to finance bike stuff. I keep going into the basement and get so discouraged at how much stuff I have NIB that I never used. How much money was spent matters some in retrospect but not as much as the overwhelming volume of stuff. I don't know where to begin. I have decided the Clods need to be parted out fo best value. it just sucks to sit down and wrench on a vehicle that you wont be using. Much more fun when you are moving forward than backwards I guess.

I am hoping that whith the boy's schools getting out I will find the time to take a trip with one or both down to the track. That might well reignite some interest. If nothing else, I plan to sell (or try to sell) some of the stuff on their used display. Rather keep it local if possible. I keep flip-flopping about what to keep. I THINK the Pede and the XXXT will stay. The Pede because it is ageless and will always be fun to pull out when the urge arises. The XXXT simply because it isn't worth much and is pretty cool to run wide open at times. Still haven't dropped the 5800 in it!:freak:

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the photos Tom. It brought back some great memories of my motorcycle tripping days. Makes me want my bike back.

Now that life has calmed down a bit around camp, we are into our 2nd week of summer camp, I can start to focus on other things like gathering together all our RC stuff. I'm with you Chris on how much stuff/money is in the RC boxes. Not that much of the money is recoverable but man....

It looks like we will be keeping the pede and evader for when the mood strikes us and enough support equipment to keep them running. The rest will go which is the Emaxx and Hornets.

Glad to hear from you guys, take care.

Bill

What? You're both gonna sell off stuff?

What's this world coming to?

And yet Jesse still wants to hold on his XXX4 that you, TOM, sold off. :p

I wish there were other options. I just need to stop spending money on Kevin's toys and let him earn the cash this time. I know, does anyone want to rent an Emaxx?

Yeah, OK you got me Chris! :lol:

I'd like to buy a quad for up north.... But I don't think it will happen, I need a new 1:1 truck first.

Well, my pede has been getting used alot lately. Not so much jumping,but just running up and down the alley.:tongue:

well i have been working on and finished(for the most part) a tl-01 stretch. it makes the wheel base 12 1/4" witch is 2" longer then stock. this was done to allow use of a hpi charger body on it. i cut the car in half right in between the steering and the battery slot.


i wanted the owner to splurdge for esc over the stock msc. but he is not interested. if he had gone with the esc option i could have cut the car in a different location and hide all the electronics. but he is getting more into it the more he sees it. so wee will see ;)

the width is pretty good. i thought i would need to run some longer axle stubs. the front is almost too tight of a fit. he does auto body so he is going to use the heat gun at work to try and "flare" the fenders to allow full steering.

here are the pics, hope to get one of the body mounted(looks very cool, makes me want to do a el camino!) today.

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