MIP Super Ball Diff For The Tamiya Blackfoot/ Super Beetle #16210

There is nothing SUPER about ball diffs imho.

Normally you'd be right but.....

 

Back in the day the thing that I recall really started off the whole 'upgraded/modded' RC scene was the Thorpe ball diff for the then new Blackfoot. Before then mods were more something for racers than bashers, this was one of the first true 'basher' mods on the market. 

 

30 years later and its back - albeit updated and now labelled MIP....

Part of the reason for this diff is the poor design of the gearbox of the Monster Beetle/Blackfoot - There's two thin pressed steel (IIRC) plates holding it all in and when the gear diff spreads under load it pushes out the plates and everything slips and grinds

I made some clamp plates a few years back to stop it flexing, the ball-diff's just a tidier solution

 

 

 

11 hours ago, TWINSET said:

Part of the reason for this diff is the poor design of the gearbox of the Monster Beetle/Blackfoot - There's two thin pressed steel (IIRC) plates holding it all in and when the gear diff spreads under load it pushes out the plates and everything slips and grinds

I made some clamp plates a few years back to stop it flexing, the ball-diff's just a tidier solution

 

 

 

Having run a ball diff and hated it, I'll have the "Messy Solution" every time.

Didn't like the ball diff in my TLR 22 either and swapped it out for the RTR SCT gear diff...