RC

[M4wdFab]

dug through my old RC stuff last time i was at moms, and gathered some parts to revive my 2wd Traxxas stampede.
all electronics back installed and power cycled some 25 yr old nicd batteries ha, actually got about 5 min of run time out of 1500mah packs
ordered up some cheap 3000mah nimh and in the 7 cell "hot version.  rips now.  brings back a lot of memories.


new ridgerock crawler build started also.  thing is a blast in stock form but added:

Proline sticky redlabel BFG Krawlers (made in USA version)
Aluminum bead lock wheels
12mm wheel hub spacers
5200 2C lipos
deans connectors
shocks lowered
25kg all metal steering servo upgrades front and rear
steering servo saver deletes front and rear

mods on order
portal kits for front/rear
all metal gears front and rear

[M4wdFab]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JXVFBQF?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title 

[M]

I have a SCX24 crawler, its a fun little toy

also have a xmaxx, it breaks all the times 

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I have an original Kyosho Inferno Gen 1 somewhere. https://rc.kyosho.com/en/inferno30th  Bought the Maxx when I broke myself a couple of years ago.  I had lots of RC cars in my teen years.  Mostly Tamiya buggies.  A few planes that I built from kits, only to see them smash into a million pieces. 

[M4wdFab]

i had radio shack buggies that were almost hobby grade, then my neighbor gave me all of his 3 Tamiya Frogs and tons of parts for them.  those were fun.

then i had a coople stampedes and made one 4x4 before that was available,

Ofna Monster pirate
Duratrax MT pro
Helis gas and electric
boats gas and electric
airplanes gas and electric
submarines electric

some battle bot stuff my first year at UB and other stuff along the way

then i built a jeep and joined the club, havent touched any of it since

[M]

this was the best RC car I had when I was a kid

[M4wdFab]

o man that is a blast from the past 

i think one of the neighbor kids had one of those

[M4wdFab]

i had one of these guys for a while! 

wore the rubber off the tires!

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I had this one.  1984 Kyosho Chevy Pickup.  It was chain drive.  I remember being upset because all my friends had buggys that were way faster.   I got the Grasshopper next.

[M4wdFab]

my 2nd Radio shack (just less the hobby quality) car  at like age 11

some interchangeable parts with the broken arrow

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Found it.  Still smells like Nitro fuel..

[M]

Found it.  Still smells like Nitro fuel..

Looking forward to your restoration thread for that!

[M4wdFab]

nice!

[mr.mindless]

i had one of these guys for a while! 

wore the rubber off the tires!

My dad had a buggy like that. Terrifyingly fast. I was truly too young to handle it (8ish?) when we were doing RC things, I might still be. I don’t think it made the move from MN. I had some sort of 4x4 Bigfoot type thing that wasn’t terribly interesting. It was fun enough but that didn’t really stick.

Dad was way into it before I came along, had nitro planes and boats. I fooled with the 42” cigarette style fiberglass boat, got it set with 1990 modern radio but it never ran perfectly and weeds were an issue off our dock so I lost interest in that too. I think all that got tossed when they moved out here too.

[M4wdFab]

lots of fun was had with about 10 of us at the jokenin farm today.  2 trips with 2 tractors and dump trailers of rocks, logs ect to make a pretty sweet rock course.

we were entertained for about an hour after setup before cold temps set in.

good to see a pretty strong showing from the club!