Nitroholic

I have a cupboard full of bottles that can cause drowsiness and shouldn't be mixed with operating heavy machinery. 🍷

But, yeah, I can understand not wanting to spend all day out on the road with that lot going on.

I am much happier tucked up in a nice warm transport office....

DAF AEBS slaps on the brakes for lamp posts, random pedestrians and stray dogs....Turn that rubbish off!
@Gaz ... you would be surprised at whay you can pass a medical with. It's just checking you can see, hear, and react to what's going on. A lot of medical conditions will not fail you as long as they are under control and suitably managed. Worth talking to a sawbones to get advice.

My day job... Transport manager. 

I used to transport my HPI Baja on a motorcycle....and to do so, I built a frame/carrier that bolted on where the grab rails were, and attached it to that. Then used a dog-lead to tow it to wherever.
The things are heavy.

For more local carriage, I had a sack barrow truck thing.

Just take out the glowplug and have a look. If it has a square shoulder..normal. Tapered, and it;s a turbo.

Never liked those Macstar engines. Always found them harder to tune and keep in tune than most of the other options out there. Kyosho, OS, Force, LRP ....HPI, Thunder Tiger ... Even the Hoboa .21 motor was better. In fact, about hte only nitro motors that ever gave me grief were .28 Macstars.

to me..it's worth £5

To someone who wants one as a classic RC for their shelf...it;s worth whatever you are prepared to pay for it. It's not a value based decision.

Can you get the parts to make it look good. Is it all there and not battered.

Some optimist on E-Bay reckons theirs is worth well over £200.....

Motorcycles....classic and custom ones mostly....and the tools and equipment to restore and maintain same. Bottomless pit right there!

 

A good paint shop will do a job that will match the factory finish...but...it's not a cheap process. Rubbing back, blending the scratch, then properly colour matching and feathering in the new paint until it's seamless. Then wet sanding and buffing it. You paint to panel lines and natural breaks to help hide any blending. It's skilled work.
Alternatively...you call in one of those 'scratch fixers' who do the whole job in half an hour.

No prizes for guessing which looks 'right'

Dealers want you cash NOW, so you buy it...then they get the scratch fixed before you pick up your car, so if it looks crap when you collect it...it's your car. Any problems with the finish and they will send you off to the pain people for recompense, who will point you at their small print saying the finish is not guaranteed perfect.

They won;t paint it before someone buys it, as that will burn up the profit and leave them with nowt. They know it's actual value just the same as you do, only the 'discount' for a quick sale makes it feel like a good deal. It's not. Don't walk away though ... RUN!!!!!

Came across this when I was trying to buy a bike once. Turned up to test ride it, and the fork oil seals were so blown oil was running over the brakes. Clearly unsafe. Would only fix it if I bought the bike. Another place accepted the list of faults I found with the thing they were selling...and offered me a 10% discount on the repairs.....provided I paid them to do it. No mate. That's not how it works in the real world.

Dealers......are like politicians. VERY hard to find an honest one.

I was going to say it's because they are idiots.

Then I reconsidered...because if it's stupid to SELL your beaten up truck for more than a new one, what does that make a person who BUYS said truck?

But in all probability, they don't sell. These guys used to fill E-Bay up, but fees mean they go sell on FB instead. I avoid Facebook period. Not just marketplace.

Same here ....

Bought a portable air con for the bedroom, and it's wonderful in there. Picked it up when the weather was wet and cold back in March. Easier to get them then

lets demand the return of the back button and form an angry mob to get it done!

Don;t have it myself, but I know a few who have. Does look a decent game.

Just don;t have hte time to start into a new game right now

Congrats.

Does that mean she owns half your RC collection now?

https://shop.lcracing.net/collections/car-kits/products/emb-tg-1-14-4wd-truggy EMB do them RTR too

This was why I bought a Savage XS and before that a Losi mini 8ight...which was fun, but had real issues with dif bearings, chewing up spurs and generally just seeming to need more work than it was fun.

Still have hte SAvage, and it's been reliable on 2S. Push it to 3S, and the driveline wear stepped up a bit.

Also consider:

https://shop.lcracing.net/collections/assembly-required/products/emb-tghk-1-14-4wd-truggy-br-font-color-red-free-shipping-font

These are all capable of handling a decent range of terrrain, go fast enough to be fun, yet fit in a small holdall with all the stuff you need. Bigger scale trucks just take up more room and are more work to transport and store.

yeah...they just sneaked it into your pocketwhile you weren;t looking, then swiped your credit card to cover their tracks.

It's an age old trick, and I am amazed you fell for it 🤣

Does look impressive.

REminds me of my plans to build an 8 wheel FG based truck with 2 26cc motors, 4WD 4WS, I had enough parts to make it, but when I laid it out...I knew I had no way to transport it to anywhere I could run it. So it never got built.
Whilst I love a statement RC, it's no fun if you can;t take it out for a run!

Meh...what this needs is a pair of nitro motors under the hood, so you get smoke out the pipe.

Hmm....now. That gives me an idea

want to see it running....

probably need t o replace the lock barrel. But check first the latch isn't just sticking

nope. New PSU made zero difference.

I kind of new it wouldn't, but I had to try. It's a better PSU anyway. Just means I upgraded sooner. The old one was bought when a previous unit blew. It was cheap and available quick. This is a much better unit.

Yeah....slight issue there. My PSU has only 1 power lead with a split pair of 8pin connectors.

I have a replacement unit on roder from Amazon due tomorrow. Didn;t want to buy a new PSU...but...this is a possible fix, and a better quality PSU was probably on the cards anyway to avoid issues under load. If I ever actually get that far!

Will see how that turns out

yep. Made no difference

well...so far STILL no joy.

Updated BIOS, tried a few BIOS settings, did a CMOS reset. Still nothing.

Tried monitors with display port cable and HDMI for good measure.

Screens stay black, and my Mobo 'EZ Diag' shows a VGA light, telling me either the GPU is not detected or failed. Yes. Thank you EZ Diag, but I think the totally blank screen had given me a clue.

Yeah, going to do that anyway. According to the MSI website, there are several more recent BIOS updates, and the newest one was back in the summer. So I am going to snag that and see.

Probably a good thing to do anyway, as I haven;t updated it for several years