Happy Holiday, Guys.

thank you very much!

and the same to you and everyone else!!

happy gobble gobble!

Yes indeed! Haooy turkey day! Hope everybody had as nice a day I I did. Family and food. The good life!

Chris

My Holiday was a good one, Nice spending time as a family of 4 again. Hope everybody elses was just as good.

Racing yesterday was good fun, My youngest did real well in mod Truck & Buggy qualifying 3rd in the A-main for both and finishing 2nd in both. I did OK but enjoyed myself. My mod truck is SCREAMIN' fast & I really get a kick out of driving it, if I could only contain my exhuberence a little more I could probably do even better. My truck is faster than my Youngest's truck & has more power, I found the sweet spot in gearing it so my 12x2 is alot better than my sons 11x2.

My E-maxx is lacking, it's fast, but 2 of the guys have converted Revos that have been dominating. I drove one and they are really awesome. I think I'm going to do one!

well, well. we have become a very quite bunch of guys.

hope all your pre-holiday activites are going well.

i have added another RC to the stable, my trade/buy of a FT rc18t finally went through. some friends and i built a ramp to throw down on the carpet track we race at. we hope to get 2-4 jumps that we can throw down and take off. the r18's jump like turds compared to the pede. you ahve to have a lot of motor rpm's to kepe the nose up. even on very slow low jumps.

my pede is still in need of come tlc. i destroyed the rear rims on it, and still havent done a wide pede conversion on it. i do know i have given up on the clod-O-pede mod. too big. but i am eyeing some rpm stable maxx rims and masher 2000's. i havent been runni gmuch. it has gotten cold here. and the garage is not that fun of a place to hang out an wrench. even with my little space heater dish. but slowly getting things back into running order.

well i thought i would post up and see how everyone is doing, hope your getting to run something. and from my family to yours, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

-the ronbeck family-

Well, if Peter is going to come out of lurking, then so shall I!

What is an r/c anyway? It has been so long I don't remember... Seriously though, I DId just pick up a couple of packs from a guy at the track last night. I didn't actually GO to the track- that would have been too much like atually doing RC stuff. A co-worker lived real close to this guy so he swung by and picked them up. 1.17V packs, $20 each. I couldn't pass it up. We recently turned about 20 packs over to Radio Shack for NiCd disposal. They have been sitting decomposing in the basement for way too long. I couldn't believe how many dead packs we had. We are almost down to all GP3300 now. I guess we still have a few older 2400 packs but...

A guy on the track's forum posted some excellent advice on batteries that I thought I should pass along. Rather than stealing it outright, I figured I could point you to the thread itself (http://rcexcitement.handruin.com/index.php?showtopic=1852) . Enjoy!

Our basement is not quite as cold as a garage (it was 16 degrees here thismorning and we are expecting 6-10" of snow tomorrow) but it still hasn't drawn me down thre to work on the trucks. I have been dreaming of projects though and that is a good thing. Something mutant perhaps. I have so many spare Pede parts I should be able to creat some monster that wil never get driven to keep the other trucks company! :p

Hey guys! Glad to see you are still out there! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO Y'ALL!

I've been racing. 3 weeks straight. Not running this weekend though. My Pede has been a little lonely, but still has it's place.

I did do an Electric Revo conversion though, took and E-Maxx tansmission and put it in a Revo. Made custom side pods with battery holders, I think it looks pretty snazzy too! Maiden voyage for it will be on the 17th, I'm hoping I did well on it and I'll do well with it.

We got 4-6" of snow out of the system that's supposed to dump on Chris today, all came down between 8pm and 6am. Made the commute this morning slow. Bah! I'm already ready for spring!

that is very cool tom! i just saw in the new rc car action in the holiday must have list that there is going to be a production conversion for the revo. but it is cool to be original! always a struggle with popular RC's.

enjoy the snow, we did. the whole 3inches that hung around for about 8 hours.

We've already got a few inches on the ground and it is snowing like crazy right now. They are saying 6-10 by the time it is over. The ski areas should get quite the boost from this. Maybe I can disappear some day next week. Like I could get away with that! :p I'd get shot.

Here's my E-Revo

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And another
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that is beyond cool tom!

how does it run?

and compare to E's?

Well, I haven't had a chance to actually run it yet other than up & down my hallway, but I have driven one before and when you compare them to a E-maxx they aren't any faster speed wise, but handle much better. I'll be running it this Saturday and report back after the race. It was wheelieing like grazy in my hallway, buy bowties on carpet tend to have alot of grip! LOL!

Is the Revo 4WD or 2? If 2, then it would be more like the Sport Maxx correct? A very cool looking truck in either case. Can't wait to hear a report on how it runs.

Spent many hours in bed last night, trying to sleep but thinking of ways to make a Pede into a 3 wheeled motor cycle. I have NO idea why I would want to do that other than that it would be cool and I sure don't know why I couldn't get the darn idea out of my head at 4AM! Probably because I watched "biker build-off" last night. Gave me some ideas on how one could do suspension for the front fork. It would be quite the project even without dealing with the asthetics of the ride to finish it off. I picture it as a tube framed chopper with fenders over the rear wheels. One problem I have is scale. I picture a rider about a GI Joe size character (or a Barbie. ;) ). Just don't have a feel for how big that would end up being. I was thinking of a XXX4 buggy wheel up front. Probably be several inches longer than a Pede if it was really chopped (as it should be!). Need to pull up some photos of "real" trikes to look at.

The Revo is 4wd, the suspension geometry is so far removed from the E-Maxx its wild! The 2 inner hinge pins for the lower suspension arms are probably only 3-4mm apart, & then the cantilever style suspension too. Lots of suspension travel on it.

Hope everybody is properly calm and collected for the upcoming festivities! If you are one of those "happy holiday" sort of humbugs, I apologize. I was raised saying Merry Merry, and I shall continue!

So, I noticed that thread by the guy trying to sell his hopped-up Pede seems to have gone away. Self promotion doesn't fly I guess. Frankly, I think the guy didn't have a prayer of selling his truck for what he was asking. Tried to be nice about it though.

Still waiting on a race report on that E-Revo thing!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all you guys. Hope you have a great holiday season.

Is Santa bring anyone some RC stuff?

You non-PC person you! LOL! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I didn't think that thread would last long, it was in violation of the TOS. I didn't thisk there was a snowballs chance in you know where that he'd get what he wanted for it. I might have given up $75-80 for it if I wanted one.

EVO Race report? sad to say it's not the greatest. The truck is great & I like it alot, just got to do a little tuning on it (I hate tuning!). It needs more low speed steering, getting around the tight slow corners is a hassle. And a touch more speed is needed once the steering issue is resolved. Being a new truck to me, but a used truck overall, I had some issues, 1 my fault and 1 not. I stripped out 1/4 of my idler gear in the trans when my 2nd gear only conversion went awry and the ourpur gear slid back on the shaft.... Oops! the other thing was in the main I stripped out the spyder gears in the rear diff. :(

See video a buddy shot here: http://www.skunkracing.net/emaxx.wmv Mine is the red white & blue truck first being focused on, and my lack of low speed steering shines thru (among other things! lol), the Orange truck at the end is another E-Revo a buddy has & his is Fast & handling great.

Oh, I thought it was worth more than $80. Maybe even $150 but no way anybody was going to touch it with a starting bid of $175!

Yup, you do seem to have a steering problem! LOL! That red Hummer seemed to be doing real well though! Was that a maxx? Any ideas on how to fix the steering?

The H2 was another Revo Conversion. I've got a couple ideas to try to solve the steering issue, already adjusted one of them, just need to get out and try it. I'll be taking it out between Christmas and New years for a test & tune at another local track. Hopefully I'll get it dialed in.

I just converted and ran the truck for the 1st race, no tuning, just ran it as the previous owner had it set up. It didn't work, so now I'll try my own. Already changed the oil in both diffs 5000 in front and 1000 in back, and am changing the shock oils as well. Starting with what I have on hand, I'm putting 40wt in front and some 35 in the rear, I was told it had 50wt front & rear before. It will soften it up a little, but the Orange EVO is soft too. I'll try it with my "new" set up and fine tune from there.

Why the difference in front and rear diff oils?

Well to be honest, I'm not quite sure! lol! I am going from advice of the guy with the H2 and another EVO racer who are both Nitro boys in the summer. Diff oils are something the 1/8th scalers have been doing for a while now. I'll have to inquire with them about the reasoning!

Well, Merry Christmas (belated) and Happy new year to my friends on this thread. Hope you all enjoyed your Holidays!

well mery christmas and happy new year to everyone else. i missed out on the last 5-6 posts. truck look sooo monster on that track :D i think you will get it hooked up and running in the right direction.

my rc18t is now named the turd..not super happy with it but making it my own. i was going to get a wallmart nylint crawler for xmas, but it hink i want to put it towards soem clod axles i have of a friends.

Turd..... What a funny word.

Turd..... What a funny word.

glad you like it!

i think it fits it well!

lol

Yes indeedy! A Happy Christmahanaquanza to all!

Hope everybody's holidaze went well. Personally I am glad to be back at work. Or, perhaps more accurately that the kids are back at school! Vacations are just too darn long.

Got some skiing in on my new Christmas presents (skis...). Sprained the knee the first day. :cry: It is getting better. :) I will be seeing the orthopod later this week and hopefully he/she can give me a better prognosis and some clue as to how to heal up quickly as there is so much more skiing to be done! The highlight, I think of that is that I got a screaming good deal on these skis. I wasn't even in the market but Christmas this year was ski equipment for the rest of the clan so... Then I found there was a manufacturing mess-up in the skis. Brought them back and gosh-darn, they don't have any more of those. So, for ANOTHER $100 they are putting me on the best selling top-of-the-line ski Rossignol makes. So, I get a high end ski package for less than half it's price. I haven't gotten them back and will let the knee heal before trying them but I ahve high hopes! It was such a good dea that if I don't like them I can probably get most of my bucks back reselling them! :thumbsup:

I remember Skiing, I think the last time I skied was when I was 9.......

I knew a guy who used to live in Michigan. He claimed he skiied. Actually, he was pretty good with all the practice he got with the tilted iceskating you all have out there! :p Up in the U.P. you get tons of snow. Just not a lot of vertical I guess.

I will be picking up my new room ornaments after work today. I feel almost like the kid who gets a bicycle for Christmas in the middle of the snowiest winter on record. Just look at them and dream...

Seeing the orthopedist today about the knee. Hopefully he (or she, I have no idea) will give me some hope and direction towards a skiful winter. It is still way early!

I am sure this thread has something to do with Stampedes. Just can't figure out what that connection would be. Oh, I know, some of us are full of bull? stampedes, bulls. Get it? Sorry. I will be quiet now.

Yeah, lots of snow in the UP, northern lower, & west side of the state thanks to Lake effect snow. All ours that fell before Christmas is gone. But it got cold again and the local ski areas are making snow like crazy!

Hope your orthopedist gives you some great news. but at least you didn't break your leg!

As for that last "blurb"....... You must be getting a little stir crazy or something!

Well, the orthopod gave me as clean a bill of health as he could. A level 1 MCL sprain. Basically he doesn't want me to ski for a month or so (how is that for a death sentance for the season?) but pretty much any other exercise is OK. We shall see how long I can stay off the slopes.

He doesn't "want" you to ski for a month?? Hmnnnn... Be careful!

Careful is my middle name. My first name is Notgunnabe. Just kidding. Yeah, I will take it slow and careful. I figure if I can heal properly the first time then I wont have to keep healing for the rest of the season. It stinks to miss January but there are lots of Januarys!

LOL! Yeah, Lot's of Januarys......

chris glad it's nothing major. and hope you heal up fast. but pace yourself. trust the gimp ;)

but it's nice to see some regular posts going on again here.

anyone get some RC in?

very little for me. did some testing on the turd(rc18t), and ended up in a puddle....but after about 36 hours the esc dried out :D but still trying to get it together well enough for a trip ot the track this week. but sis dust off the Bl stampede. it is soo much fun! forgot how easy it is to jump.

tom anymore work on the E-revo???

We keep thinking about the track but it just doesn't work out. Way too white outside to want to play out there.

The track used to have open practice on Sat. mornings but then they added an on-road track. They raced on Sat. mornings. :rolleyes: The only other open practice was Wednesday afternoons and Friday afternoons. Seeing as how we are a good 454 minutes from the track those don't work so well.

As of this week the on-road stuff starts at 5PM so maybe we can get over and run in the dirt in the mornings. Time will tell.

Last time out Jesse stole my BL and put it in the XXX4. He doesn't want to give it back! That leaves the Pede empty. I am so removed from the hobby these days that I really don't feel like working on the brushed motors. In reality I do have the lathe and I do have a huge bag of brushes for any Speed Gems I have so I don't really have a reason NOT to do the work. The Pede with a Chameleon used to be plenty fast for me until I got the BL. Imagine that. I could do some major swaps, putting Jess's C2 into the XXXT and the Super Chicken into the Pede (don't ask what that is doing in the XXXT-it is just there). I just need the motivation.

With a bum knee I don't much feel like running around the track after the trucks as I crash them but I guess hobbling would do me some good.

well pede news, i fianlly shoe goo'ed my Bl esc in the pede. and i installed bullet conectors inline from the esc to the motor for easier instaltion in a different RC.

but i have finally gone full Bl in my 18th scale rigs. traded some 2.2 strreet tires for a 300 can size hyperion 6k motor. it is faster then my Bl pede! i installed it my mini giant, and it was a small 4wd pede..way to much fun. but i cracked a cell on a major landing.....new pack double checked everythign did a short test run at the house. took the giant down to the lhs to show my friend fat tom. pluged in my batt and poof! meltdown!!! hehe, i was mad!!! but i have a spare and i have heard castle is great on repairs.

hope the new year still finds you all well.

The battery went "poof" or the brushless? Neither is good but I need the "rest of the story".:p

the esc went poof!

http://www.one18th.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=18719

just got a nice email form castle:

Peter,

Please send me your mailing address and I'll get a new one out to you.
There will be a pre-paid, pre-addressed mailer for you to send that one
back to us.

Joe Ford
Product Specialist

wonder if it would go out today????

That IS good customer service. :thumbsup:

took the giant down to the lhs to show my friend fat tom.

???? I don't work at a Hobby shop..... :freak:

I bet that meltdown was stinky!

Hows it goin' fellas!

[QUOTE=tommckay]I bet that meltdown was stinky!QUOTE]

yes, yes it was. and the worst part is it smelt like burning money and plastic!


we are okay here. busy with the kids's activities.
going to hit the track for some practice with the Bl turd tonight.
will let you knwo how it goes.

Do you have a do-do brown body on the 18th scale? That's what I imagine when I hear you call it a "turd"..... Still makes me giggle a little.... It's just a funny word. Will I ever grow up?? hope not.

Hi Guys,

Stopped by yesterday and saw that everyone had started talking. Thats good.

For over a year our trucks have been stored away and to my supprize Kevin showed up at the house with his epede. He wants to run it again. Thats good.

I even have started working up the courage to toss my wing of the hill again. That should be good.

Anyway take care guys, talk to you later.

Bill

my friend was going to paint me a turddy brown body, but he left the brown at his parents house and his dad "stored it" some place.
http://www.one18th.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=18788
http://www.one18th.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=18789

and i love the oversized wing as well! :D

So, how did the turd go?

So, how did the turd go?

it went better, but still is turdy in the air. i have now since removed all the AE billet goodies and i am headed out to the track again. the truck is weird egg. but hopping it will be a little more nimble in the air.


and HI everyone :D

I felt that wasy about my Pede too. I had lots of aluminum goodies on it and it flew like a tank. Or an elephant perhaps. I have left the aluminum front shock tower for strength and that helped balance it some but the rest is sitting in a drawer.