Kpowell911

Happy New year 🍻

you too mate 🙂 

Happy new year everyone 

Cant see the stress been any worse than running the Badlands, which seems to be fine. Wonder if the arms are made out of the ‘HD’ style material arms?

Ill wait till a UK price comes out but for now, my new method of buying RCs is buying used, and £200ish got me my last RC haha. 
 

Ive had 5 X Maxxes, this one is my most stock, with just RPM rear carriers and a Max 6, its the best one Ive had….. 
 

That said, its my birthday in 3 weeks….

RPM carriers and Max6 is peak X-Maxx. Everything else makes it worse, maybe a (decent) unbreakable shell. 

In terms of stress, it actually would be worse. The strain on longer arms would be higher than what would be added by a moderate amount of weight increase on a shorter arm (exponentially so). The "lever action" now also comes from the other (heavier) side compared to Badlands (the chassis), hence stiffer springs as well. Just waiting for facebook to explode after everyone who runs Badlands sticks them on the wideXmaxx, and breaks them by driving down the sidewalk kerb. 

My biggest issue is the price though. Assuming we'll be looking at around £169 (if not £199 straight), i'm not willing to spend that much anymore on a few plastic pieces and two springs, especially considering how well rounded a RPM/Max6 X-Maxx realistically is. If i wanted to spend money to make it worse, i'd get alloy arms.

Lets be realistic. Itll be £229 here haha

I fear we may be celebrating too soon 😕

they rejected the two protests by the sounds of it end of the day not really maxs fault more the directors choice to liven up the final hes had a hell of a season and deserves it tbh 🙂

Itll go to the courts. 
 

I feel bad for Hamilton, Im not his biggest fan but he and his Dad epitomised class today. Horner/Wolff/Helmut and especially Masi are a disgrace. 
 

I dunno how to feel about it. On one hand. Its a Championship, so nothing is really “Decided” last day, its over a year. Both Lewis and Max have gained and lost because of FIA decisions over the season. One could argue that Lewis probably got away with the incident on Lap 1 for example. That said, Max werent touching him today. Perez raced him the hardest and Mercedes own strategists posed more of a threat to Hamilton than Max. 
 

However, as corny as this is to say, and doesnt really make sense, I think Lewis deserved the Race Max the Championship

I watch very little TV....has to be something interesting/educational. YouTube every day but yeah the adds are getting ridiculous 🙄. Personally I don't like kev...toooo load for my sensitive ears !!! Matteo makes some wonderful videos though, wish he would do one to show us how he does it 🙂. JohnnyQ90 amazes me with his work too, as does Olive rc.

@Nick

Adblock? I've not seen an ad on youtube in 10 years.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en

Imho, best ad blocker. Creates a small problem with twitch, but there's workarounds for that too if necessary. But that's the only problem with it. 

I completely forgot about Matteo`s rc movies, this guy is pure genius, i keep asking him to make a video showing how he films his cars, but sadly it seems it will remain a secret

@Ag100 There wont be another like that thats for sure! He is in the Enzo Ferrari/Colin Chapman category! F1 Royalty!

The FW14B was one of, if not my favourite Race Car

Rip to a truly inspirational man, who took his team to the top of the pile.

I hope they do a tribute livery for him this weekend….

Aww no! That's really sad.

The word "legend" is overused, but here... it's 100% applicable. This man changed motorsport forever; in 100 years time, people will still know his name.

The world is lessened by his parting. We live in hope of seeing Team Williams back at the forefront.

nice looking glider 

@turok007 i want it but really dont think i have room to store it, sorry hijacking  Mr powells spot here

Doing the me to me pressies at least you get something you want or need 

also that eddie kid tribute was amazing had a tear in my eye watching that LEGEND 

My girlfriends Dad (was big into Bikes and a big Eddie Kidd fan phoned us in tears after that @Bajadre

yeah kpowell top gears always done some amazing tribute over the years esp the cars made in uk one was fantastic but that eddie will take some beating tbh good old paddy hehe 👍

I managed to get one in time. I just looked then and they’ve gone back down. 

Fair play, hope it comes ok 🙂

That’s what I’m kinda worried about is that why they soo cheap. I took of my preorder for the vendetta. 

Ill get a Max 10 SCT/4600kv combo for it

Are you going to get a supra  or wait for santa

Dunno if Ill ever use an on road car is the issue?

As @Kpowell911 said been happening for a long time just like everything tbh apart from wages of course.  ☹️ 

The Losi SBR 2.0 was around £100-£240 odd cheaper depending where you shop back in August this year so quite an increase there as well.

I guess this is to be expected but quite sad for the hobby and might put it out of reach for some people.  Just wish I had got a couple more cars way back when things really were cheap!

That's one expensive lump of plastic! 🤮

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That's a long balance plug  lol

It's usually thousands of cells depending on the manufacturer, cell size and car type.

How many cells are in a Tesla Model 3 battery?
The battery uses 2170-size lithium-ion cells. The 350-volt (nominal, 400v max) Model 3 battery packs are made of four longitudinal modules each containing the groups (bricks). The Standard Range version carries 2,976 cells arranged in 96 groups of 31.

Has it already got the upgrades

I bought crawler wheels, given the car they've been fitted to is somewhat slow...Does that mean its a crawler now?

It is quite cool and should absolutely monster the terrain, is it worth the asking price? Let’s see what happens with the first batch reliability/durability…..

there’s one big ugly reason I’d not even think about buying one, I’d rather poke my eyes with a poo stained spoon!!!

just seen a picture of one of these next to a xmaxx made it look tiny haha what a beast !!

Waste of money if you have the little Maxx dialled in how you like it but your money your itch 😂😂.  Be pre warned here they can turn into money pits very very quickly ! This is one rc  I’d say not to follow the crowds with only buy and upgrade what you break ! Build the kit as it comes 👍

@mydoddy69it wont break cause I wont use it 😩😂

Why not go for the tamiya truck 

Just down to greed & company shareholders want to make money.   And at least one company owns what they sell  they say we get the best deal but they are buying it from themselves.  Also covid is a good excuse.   Or just believe the news   Russia could just turn supply off.

another news site said 9 uk fuel suppliers have closed because couldn't keep to price promise.  So it that another way for the big company's to make even more money.

Don't think it has anything to do with not wanting to deal with Russia - Gov' quite happy to bad mouth Russia in mainstream media (rightly so in most cases) but still buys their gas amongst other things, ditto those 'nasty' Saudi's - but happy to supply arms to them, have Prince Charles sucking up to them and let them buy Newcastle UFC.  No, main stumbling block is the ruskies want Europe to sign long term supply deals, which doesn't sit particularly well with 'our' carbon neutral energy goals.  Europe, inc. UK, want to agree short(er) term spot prices, with no extended tie-ins, so Russia, who holds all the trump cards, is effectively shafting us for the privilege of getting short term pricing structures.  

And prob better not even mention successive Gov's total lack of action / forethought in trying to make UK more self sufficient in energy supply terms, i.e nuclear, so we don't constantly get held by the short & curlies by regimes such as Putins.

And, there we are. Have a great w/e everybody!

The UK is still refusing to bite the bullet and admit that if we ALL ditched our gas boilers and our diesel and petrol cars and switched to electricity....that they have ABSOLUTELY no chance of generating the power we would need to service that. The planned stuff, the wind farms etc. can all contribute, but they will not allow us to ditch fossil fuel power NOW let alone when people are cooking with electricty and plugging in their cars every night.

It takes 10 years to get a nuclear plant from planning to generating power last time we did it.....so someone had better start thinking about how thats going to work.

Or...more likely....we will 'buy' electricity from polluting countries burning fossil fuels for us, while we smugly complain about how we are doing are bit and asking why Johnny-Foreigner doesn;t clean up his act. Much as we have done with manufacturing...getting rid of all those dirty polluting processes...and having the Chinese do it for us...while complaining how they are screwing up the world. But the retail world had heart failure when the flow of container ships from China got stalled for a week.

Doesn't matter who is in power...they are all just as bad. And all just as clueless how things are actually going to work in the glorious clean future they promise us. How goods will get to shops, how we will h eat our homes and travel.

Fair play. Hope youre good anyway 👍🏻

All good mate, I still pop on here most days to have a look around and check up on everyone 😂

He is stuck on the M25 after running out of petrol because of those insulation clowns last I heard he was down to eating his boot soles 😂😂👍

Main ones I can think of at the moment are Losi 5ive, a couple of MCD models, and the different varieties of KM stuff. I think you can still get some FG cars and there's a few other more race oriented ones that are available from less main stream places but they won't be cheap.

Don't know if you've had a look on here but they do 30DN clone of the 5ive. https://www.rcmodelz.co.uk/

This?

https://www.rcmodelz.co.uk/rc-cars/30dnt-4wd-shortcourse-truck-blue-alloy.html?___SID=S

I still run mine from time to time, but it gets less use mainly becuase its too damn heavy to cart around. If I take it to the park....its just so much hassle. A 1/8 is just as much fun, and easy to transport.

If they ever bring out a wide Maxx edition or a wider V2 version I’d probably buy one .

£800 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@BashingBrian Agreed. Lot of money, I got it second hand, so saved a bunch. Its also in a different category of strong compared to my Kraton EXB (which cost around the same money) it replaced in my experience so win/win for me personally. 
 

@mydoddy69 I can agree with that too, but there comes a point where things are too big/heavy/take too much juice to run in some areas. The Maxx has filled that void for me

Might be a return label with the other ESC or maybe they're just writing it off as it was their mistake. Either way sounds like their customer service is on point. 👍

Thats fine, I dont mind sending it back, its just me being fussy, and I want the stock looking harness, I could solder in a BEC lead (no idea why I didnt and save myself $30 tbh….)

great CS that brother cant knock that 👍

I use Parcelforce for anything I sell anyone personally

Detest Hermes, yes the standard you receive is very dependent on the hidden worker last mile delivery person, but their back end is useless should anything go wrong.  Hopefully your unicorn RC's turn up.

Its updated to “we’ve got it”. Not sure if thats a threat or a good sign to be honest…..

@turok007 I heard Nick bought the 250 GTO with the profits/royalties from Dark Side of the Moon, and everyone called him mad at the time haha

However unless Nick Mason sells it it’s worthless?! I’m not a big Ferrari fan, but I love the 288 GTO and 550’s. The wife daily drives her 718 and gets all sort of odd conversations about using it as a “car” 😁

250GTO is my all time favourite car.  Only 39 examples made over 3 years.  (I'm not so keen on the '64 variant, rear window design is off).

Both easy things to lose! 

beggars belief really 

Ironically..having worked in the industry for too long....the large bulky items are the easiest ones to lose.

Most of hte traffic handled ( and it is HUGE numbers) can be moved on conveyors, and a lot of the process automated, with boom scanners to track stuff as it goes. When you get something...like a 7' long pole, for example...you can't. So it has to be handled manually....which usually means some poor soul having to dump[ it in a large rollcage, which will get pushed about for sorting...along with other similarly 'awkward' packages. One missed scan or a barcode in a place the operator can;t easily reach...and what you think of as a large item vanishes in a very much larger warehouse.

I once had to explain to certain head office personnel how we couldn;t locate a box in the depot. A depot that handled 15-20 thousand items a day. They could not get it...so I invited the whole team down... They walked out onto the depot floor....looked...and just said 'oh!' ..... yup. Find that box in a room containing 10,000 boxes. It's not like finding a needle in a haystack...its like finding a particular piece of hay in a field of haystacks.

And all carriers have their issues. Cheaper carriers rely more heavily on automation....and are more liable to issues. There is also an increasing trend to remove people and customer service from the process, as these are expensive. It's why things get so bad when something little goes wrong. There is just nobody to fix it, and if you ever actually speak to someone...they are usually hundreds of miles from where the box is. Even the supposedly 'good' companies are only as good as the people who actually handle your item.

@Ag100 A customer of mine brought one for £1.1m in 2019. He uses it as well was covered in bugs last time I saw it

@Kpowell911 No, that doesn't ring a bell. It's a guy of Indian, or Pakistani, descent. I can't remember.

@Kpowell911good it’s getting used, I always think it’s a shame that these sort of things just get put away, I also remember a guy properly throwing his Porsche Carrera GT around the Nurburgring, and I was overtaken by an XJ220, such iconic cars.

You’ll be fine. At the end of the day it should all just be friendly football banter.  Although the further north you go the more likely they will be hard core Scottish lovers 😂 

@Gwalker124 can you get much further North than Elgin??

John o'groats 🤣 but yeah Elgin is pretty far north, not a place I have ever been to myself.

Out of interest, what actually is wrong with it?  Is it just slow and/or weak, or is it glitching?  And what model number is it?  Might prevent someone else from making the same mistake?

Its just Slow/weak, no where near the suggest specs in my opinion

I have one of those red DS25 things, no way does it do the quoted figures, slow and kinda weak but it's functional and a great interim servo if you get one for free (came with another RC car) or cheap. 

I wouldn't buy one at retail price, I'd rather take the risk with something used. 

My Hitec 985 from 10 years ago outdone the DS25 with ease in both speed and power.