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Not an RC, but seeing as I couldn't find a similar thread for 1:1's, and this is the lounge... then here goes. Can I present a real bargain 1987 Capri 2.8i. You know, the ones you could pick up for a couple of grand or less back in the mid 90's / 2000's. Yours for a bargain £75K. I think the world has officially gone crazy! https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1443071
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That's like the 1/28 equivalent of a 12" lift kit...
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Any BT / Openreach engineers on here? Or even Virgin Media? Just want to know if they are likely to agree to run fibre cables around the side of the property to enter into the property round the back, where the lounge is, as I really don't want a load of holes / disturbance to the front room and the lounge / front room wall as we've just recently finished decorating both rooms...
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It depends on the engineer, I had a contractor fit the BT cable and and Openreach/BT make the connection. However when presented with a trunked cable run (with plenty of slack) from my connection box in the correct cable, the contractor happily made my cable off at his end and ok’d it for the BT engineer 😉
As a rule they go to where your existing box is, not where you’d like it.
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I had no issues with Virgin when I had my fibre hooked up at hte new house. The old box was downstairs in the sitting room...I wanted the new one upstairs in the front bedroom.
The guy had no problems installing it where I asked.
I guess you would get issues if you wanted the cable run excessive distances or through multiple walls or under floors or whatever.
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Yep, same as the EX6G isn't it? Almost the same price too.
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Can any Maxx owners recommend either a 17mm Thin Wall Socket (either 3/8 or 1/2 inch drive) or a specific 17mm hex wrench that will fit inside the standard Maxx wheels? My old Thunder Tiger wrench that I use fine on my 1/8 buggies, is a bit of a pain on the Maxx. The 17mm part fits into the wheel hex aperture OK but because the offset on the Maxx wheels is quite high, when you turn the handle the tool and your knuckles are scraping across the face of the wheel/tyre.
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First proper bash with the Maxx yesterday, if you exclude bimbling around outside the house. All I can say is...this thing is a complete tank. The run area was a recently 'leveled' plot behind where I work. The big earth moving equipment left a couple of days ago, leaving a predominantly gravel / stone / dry earth surface, On 4S (I won't be running 6S), the Maxx was a real hoot, very controllable even with the TSM switched off completely. The previous owner had done a good job tuning the diffs, little to no diffing out and no crazy front tyre ballooning. Might go slightly firmer on springs and up the shock oil a bit, but overall it drove really nicely. My only previous experience with 4S is on 1/8 buggies, this thing is much more fun though obviously handling prowess is no where near that of the buggies. Nice to have a choice now based on where I'm running / mood etc. Towards the end of the run, with the car right over the other side of the site, at full tilt, so guessing 45mph+, I hit the top of an old brick that was mostly buried in the ground, with say 3-4" proud of the surface. About a dozen cartwheels later, body twenty odd feet away, I wandered over sheepishly expecting the worse. But off it drove with no obvious problems, got another 5 mins of trouble free running / crashing before calling it a day. On closer examination, the brick had taken a chunk out of the side of the front hinge pin retainer and a fairly big chunk out of the front A-Arm, but loads of meed left so no issues there. Couple more cracks in the already fairly tired body that will need stitching / shoogoo, tape etc, and one tyre needs a bit more glue, but overall I left extremely impressed with this rig.
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Did you sort it through cnhl or via Hermes?
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Having a dig through my box of weird and wonderful unused battery packs, and I came across this slightly odd 2S LIFE pack. It has two sets of discharge leads with a JR servo type plug on each set. According to the invoice that was with I paid 72p for it...!!! Anyway, what I'd like to know is if I wanted to use it in a Tx instead of the 4xAA's, what would I need to do to the leads? Would I just splice / solder the two negatives together and the same for the two positives, giving me effectively 1 + and 1 - to add my chosen connector to? Never seen one like this before, and not really sure what its intended for, but being a natural hoarder and it being 72p, I clearly didn't give this a lot of thought at the time!
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That's because they're not an FTX...😆🤣
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Thought after all the doom and gloom of the last couple of years, I'd treat us all to a trip down to the Goodwood Revival meeting later this year. Used to go quite regularly back in the late 90's / early 2000's, when I seem to remember tickets were around £30 for general admission. Just priced it up for a family of four for one day, including grandstands, and it was 447 quid... Hmmm, well it was a nice idea at least...!!!
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only been to goodwood revival once, and it was worth every penny. one of a kind event.
yes an expensive day out, but so much going on... managed to blag my way into the proper inner paddock. Where else on earth can you see a whole line of Ford GT40 waiting to race? next to another line of Ferrari 250 GTO, a few lambos, some 1930 racers etc. half a dozen genuine AC cobra.
totally overwhelming the quality of the cars not just on display but being raced hard round the track.
throw in the period dress and the quality of cars from people attending? and it really is one of a kind. just dont take the whole family of they wont appreciate it 😄
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I know its a great event, I've been probably 6 or 7 times during the first 10 years or so it was on (we lived about five miles east of Goodwood), but back then I paid 25-30 quid for my ticket and the grandstands started at less than 20 quid. Just don't think it represents decent value for money anymore, but each to their own.
It was the same great event back then, probably better actually, as it all seemed just a bit more accessible, bit more intimate? Did the FOS a similar number of times during the early years, but preferred the format of the Revival, and the close on track racing. Just think its time to try something else, particularly now I have the kids. The FIA Masters events are equally well organised, or at least the Silverstone event was that we did a few years back, just with less of the trimmings, and under a quarter of the price. Sure we'll all have a great day.
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Thanks. Let me know what you want for it.
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I may be interested in some parts, half thinking about converting my Blitz to a FS, I'll check what's needed. Think it's a bit more than simply a chassis.
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I'm looking for either: a cheapish 4 button charger or an even more basic 2S capable charger that you just plug the balance plug into. This would be for a friend who needs to charge little 1.5Ah 2S Li-Io packs for his kids FTX Tracer. Or, a decently powerful 4 button charger either single or dual circuit, (at least 80W per output if dual), I'd then have this one for myself and my friend can have my old E680. Let me know what you have. Thanks
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You've got some lovely cars on your website - very impressed.
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Dang! I think that's known as sods law... 🤪 I really need the right side or a pair, but thanks for the offer anyway 👍
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I'll message him and ask the question 👍
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Anybody have these gathering dust in their parts box? Specifically it's the right hand half that I need - the side the slipper / spur gear is on, though obviously a set of gearbox halves would be fine too. Thanks
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I shouldn't even be looking really, but difficult not to sometimes... Seen a Snap On van version local and was just trying to do some man maths! No Max6 though unfortunately ☹️
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What do you folks feel is a reasonable price to buy a used X-Maxx for at the moment? Good condition, not a lot of use by the pics. No obvious upgrades that I can see. Thanks
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Probably as ugly as sin if a lot of the recent buggy/truggy releases are anything to go by. Lovely chassis though.
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This made me laugh... not only is it 50 quid more than a new one (its used) but the nice succinct description should undoubtedly seal the deal...!!!
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Good to have memories like that of when you first got into RC. I remember being proportionally far more chuffed / happier back then with what I would consider now to be a fairly small or insignificant upgrade. When you have less of everything, even the little things mean so much more... think there's a lesson in there somewhere!
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Hmmm... good to know about the warranty situation, but sounds like sending it back in the event of failure would cost half the price of a new one! But then I have an old MM Pro that's still doing service after 7 or 8 years, so... 🤔
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OK, interesting to hear that. And I suppose if it go up in smoke a week after getting it, I'd have a a bit of a ball ache with warranty to the States... Perhaps I should just go with the easier (but pricier) Max8 option.
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Anybody got / had one of these? Thoughts? I need to get a few other bits and pieces from Amain and notice they have these for around 68 quid after coupon. Seem to get good reviews, just wondered if anyone here could back those up or maybe refute them? Want to change out the stock VXL4s in the Maxx, and could either use a spare quicrun 150 I have or get a Max8 from MS for 107 quid, or this castle one? In terms of power, seems quite similar to MM2, but without the switchable BEC.
