martin34

The water doesn't need to be on the boil when you dye the chassis. As long as the water is boiling hot by the time you put the chassis in. A grey E-revo chassis should be black in the time it takes the water to cool.

Everytime ive dyed traxxas plastics I do two tubs of boiling water leave the parts in one on a soak then prepare the dye bucket then transfer the parts in to it.

The idea was it would soften the plastic up to allow the dye to take better and everytime my parts was pure black within 10 mins I thought of it like our skin in soak it opens up lol sounds strange but I swear 10 min and its pure black. I like it though when it has a sort of metalic shine to it too almost a faint bronze. Or if...

My merv was pretty scuffed up before dye but after it looked new.

Some people say ritt dye ruins the plastics but I dont think that's true for traxxas . Hpi or rpm plastic. But ive heard of some plastics shriveling up in the hot dye.

Ive also reheated dye and reused it with the same results

Yep batteries out and in my room.Forgot it the other year and a new battery was nearly

Been using mine on the winter now and again this year as we have had quite a mild winter. Can't wait for the summer, get some track time in then off to the nurbergring!

I bet you can't wait:)

I think its because the 2nd gear has some sort of slipper and if grease gets on it it will mess up the gearchange and if any grit gets in the gearbox it will stick to the gears and grind them down

So Nitroholic can I get the grease off and out of the 3 speed without stripping all the gears down?

Nope. Only way to get the grease out is to strip the gearbox...and that means taking one chassis side off

I ment I understand lipos better

aye for the most safest you cannot go wrong with Nihm or nicad. but they do not produce that kick like a lithium product can.

you find a lot of the scaler-crawler guys like to run nimh's because of the weight they carry. and a lipo just adds more power where its not really wanted.

The 900mah NiMH is going in my sons mini as I don't want him messing with lipos.Wells he's only 3 so I won't let him charge the NiMH either

I take it,it is stronger?

not so much stronger, just slightly different flavor. Made with fruit of the amarula tree

I will have a look for it in the morning:)

I have a bit of a carbon fetish lol

chassis running no longer available, can get exotec conversion from dms racing if still stocked. http://www.exotekracing.com/tek-sct-v2-micro-truggy-sct-rally-conversion/

Oh dear they have 5 in stock and only half an hour away from me

no, so long as you only use the google play store for apps you'll be fine. Obv don't install any 'new' app that offers (illegal)free movies etc

Thanks for the replys.MAZ I will let you know how it goes.I got it because my local store were doing the hudl 2 and galaxy young 2 for

Oh and yes it runs kit kat.God knows what that means tho lol.

rubber for areas were dirt gets to metal for the least dirt ereas

or you can get hybrid bearings where one side has a metal shield and the other has rubber. win win then

I find that metal shielded ones tend to last longer, but I always put rubber shielded ones in hubs

I threw the reciept away quickly mate because i dont want to know how much i spent lol

lmao, thtas brilliant martin, enjoy buddy, everyone is alloyed to indulge at crimbo, bring on the merryment!

Thanks Turner.i suppose you could say i am an addict:)

Thanks Aj:)

my rex i use toe out, everything else is more or less neutral slightly toe in. the amount of toe depends on where you run the kit. lots of sharp turns after the other will need more toe out than in and vica versa

Thanks.Its for my savage xs.It will be just for bashing so it wont need track handleing

i thought that.i looked at your profile and saw all largescale cars and a savage xs:)

i got an Ep8 too, its supposed to be sold but its lingering like a bad smell :/

Hopefully you will be gone soon mate and the sale will be sorted

Thanks I see what you mean but the flames will be prity small so they will be hard to mask around.I am now thinking I should do the shell red with white flames.That will be alot easier

you can do it, aslong as the white is sprayed thick enough it shouldn't make a difference

mask off the areas to be white, shoot more coats of the red so say 5-7 coats thinly. once fully dry, remove mask and spray the rest white, the thicker red coat will help stop pinking and give that lush red on the can, its more consuming with time doing it this way, you will struggle to blend the flame coloring to the white shell

I think so appart from other more caustic stuff as A.J pointed out :-)

Cheers guys.I will pop to tescos a bit later to get some:)

Wouldnt the oven cleaner eat the plastic? Ive been reading up on deanodizing and it says if done too long it can eat away the alloy so prob could the plastic too.

Best way ive removed chrome off wheels is use them lol it soon falls off but not properly so that's no help.

Thanks guys just got back and put it back on charge.I set it to 5a and dropped straight back down to 0.1a like smeg said.I haven't used them for a year.Maybe that's why its taking so long

finaly its charged.Both cells are 4.18

The second battery only took an hour to charge

The stock nimh was fine when fully charged but it was only full power for a few mins.The lipo made it crazy:)

yeah i know lol, if i had dual rate throttle id go 2s and just turn it down a bit

had one, done it, got bored

ditch drag brake for sure !

drag brakes ruin your jumps{bring the nose down too soon},touring car thing really

Drag brakes are for rock crawlers, you dont want it for racing, buggies, any rc really exept rock crawling :-)

Just lock nuts mate.The size is 5-40x1/4".I cant find any anywhere

It's nice to have things colour coded, eBay would be your best bet, other people have them so they must be available from somewhere.

Try this bunch

http://rpcracing.co.uk/

one of our neighbours put theres up nov 1st!!really!wtf is that all bout....way to early imo....but each to there own i spouse

I put mine up on the 1st December and take them down around this time every year.

Down today,thank gawd,sick of all the cards blowing over when I hoover.

worn ball joints and ptfe tape. Why didn't I think of that!

it's nuggets like that which make me always scan the status updates now!

I even put some round the part of the screw that is inside the ball when needed For imo it provides the perfect balance odf slop removal yet maintain the "give"

Yes the new regs are going to ruin F1:(

again

I think they have changed to much in one go this time.I am starting to look forward to watching gp2 more than F1

Blimey I did it.Thanks guys:)

Well I did it once and cant seem to do it again

dont use right click and pate, use the buttons on the thread edit thing to inert images. sometimes it opens another window to paste the off site info into.

i used to not be able to copy paste address from paypay into messages when i was buying things till i started using the paste icon instead.

yeah..a temp gun is well worth getting

The trouble with the micro is you cant really see the motor as its inside the chassi

mod the chassis, made my life easier

a stock VXL slash can sell for under £200  But a fully hopped up ultimate can still go for £200.

It's more down to whoever wants to buy it, rather than the truck itself, it's the same with anything, you see mega hopped up Bajas fetching peanuts, then a stock ones goes up and people go crazy for it at the same sort of money.

Silly really, but it's good for bargains.

It's also down to the buyer I would rather buy a clean little used standard model than a "hopped up" one. 

As its going on a nitro I don't need any special backing paint?

Acrlic car paint works well enough. You can use 'prope' backing paint....but yo don't have to. Acrylic car paints won;t stick to Lexan...so use proper polcarb sprays for your paintjob...but acrylicx will stick to the polycarb paint layer OK. I use Halfords white primer as a backing

Thanks again guys.So I will get a Tamiya yellow and use normal white spray for backing

lipo does wake up stock set up!

Might give it a try. Been thinking about it, as original batteries "shot", but was a bit wary about increasing voltage by 50%.

From what I have read its fine to run a lipo in the stock non brushed truggy.I was recommended to get some brass pinions tho.R46 it certainly does:)