andraco Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 (edited) I have got an old 1/10th electric Tamiya (M-02L 2(r)wd road), which I have picked up as "not working" from an auction. £55 including postage. Everything came with it, what was recommended at the time (90`s most likely) (acoms tran, etc). The car has Mercedes SLK body, Stock everything, no upgrades, mechanical SC, seemingly hardly ever used. My plan is to gradually build a old/ new fast fun car out of it on a budget out of repro cheap parts. I will post progress and cost to here as I go on. Yes, I can hear you. Probably it would be cheaper to buy a decent one to start with. To me, it is like when folks build tuning cars out of an old golf or something. (or Mercedes SLK in fact) :-) I might do a build video. Here is the car as it is now: Problems so far: Transmitter was not working: Battery was leaking out at some point. After cleaning the solidified acid off, it worked faultless. Until actually the point when I gave a test run and the transmitter switched itself off, while the SC servo stuck on full power, the steering servo stuck to the right. It took me a while till I caught the car... :-D Further cleaning was required.... Purchasing 2x 3300 mah NiMH + dumb&slow charger (new) £29 Replacing the mechanical SC to ESC. Purchased this for £10 (fleebay). Waterproof apparently. New budget 15 turn motor (£10) Edited April 29, 2016 by andraco 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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