Nitroholic Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Picked up an S300 mCX off EBay. It was only £29 and I mainly bought if for the good shell, tail and skid set on it. These are very hard to find for the S300 model, and I wanted a spare. Listing as usual tell you nothing about overall condition, but this one had a broken swash plate, a linkage that had been melted on after they snapped a ball joint off, and a servo that was stuck. Replaced the swash from my pile of parts ( I have a box full of assorted chassis, shells, blades etc. so everything I needed was there) cleaned up the servo and replaced the linkage. Gave it all a clean while it was apart to get rid of any fluff etc. plus I put a drop of oil on the bearings. While I was at it...I have started to adapt a damaged S300 canopy I had to fit on the mSR. It does go...sort of...but the rear mounts don't come close. I will be 3d printing some small pieces to hook it up. I have laso bought a small vac-former. The plan is to 3D print some moulds to vac form canopies. Shouldn;t be much effort to adapt the S300 shell and vac form some that will work better. As well as making some replacements for the stock part. Could have some fun. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlo888 Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 (edited) Nice, I was looking at this one but was not confident I could fix it. nice one there is another one but description does not match and when asked question, no reply…. Edited April 6 by karlo888 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 nice pick up mate and look forward hearing about the 3d printed moulds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlo888 Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 No nothing about 3d printing except it was very very expensive back in the day. is it still expensive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitroholic Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 not really now. A basic PLA filament printer can be had for around £200, which isn;t too bad. I have made a load of parts for hte RCs with mine, making battery boxes, servo mounts, etc. If I can model it in 3D software..then I can make it in plastic! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlo888 Posted Saturday at 10:10 Share Posted Saturday at 10:10 Wow, that’s handy. Do materials etc cost a lot to 3d print? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitroholic Posted Saturday at 13:26 Author Share Posted Saturday at 13:26 A kilo reel of PLA is about £15 and it does a fair amount of printing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlo888 Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago Nice. Seems to have well dropped in price the last I looked at 3d printing 👍👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitroholic Posted 11 hours ago Author Share Posted 11 hours ago plus, ocasional bargains crop up. This is the newer version of the one I have: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126342299219?_ul=GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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