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A few more pics The MRT was a proper bit of kit back in the day. Now we have brushless motors and ESC capable of chewing up 14V and spitting it out in the form of silly speeds. Funny how things move on...

Thanks. I'd be grateful! I'll try both tricks when I get in tonight and see if they work. Thank you both.

Motor cam with rounded allen head screw, I'll be needing a new one as I have no way of removing the screw. No tabs on this side of the motor! I'll have to figure it out... Soldering the wires to the other side of the motor seemed like a good idea until I noticed the negative wire poking out the bottom of the chassis...

Hi, I'm a new member and this is my second topic. Firstly my TC3 intro: I have an old TC3 that was bought preowned many, many moons ago. I had a Tamiya TL01 at the time and just wanted a car that had better build quality and fiddleability. The local model shop owner (who was also a racer) recommended the TC3 and of course conveniently had one he was selling for someone. So off I went with my new (to me) car. It had a bells and whistles forward only waterproof limitless esc in it and a 12 turn motor. It was rapid compared to the stock TL01 so I went through lower suspension arms at a furious rate while I learned to drive it. I went through a couple body shells too. During this time I also bought a few factory parts for it like a graphite chassis and aluminium driveshafts. I never joined a club because I preferred to spend it on other things like K Cider and partying but I used the track at Crystal Palace when I could. I have to say Ioved the car and the way it handled but I didn't love the motor servicing. After a while, life took over from my hobby and I passed the car on to my younger brother who enjoyed using it while smashing even more lower suspension arms for it. Eventually also he became interested in the other distractions of life and so the TC3 was tucked away in its box until it came back to me 6 years ago. I promptly place it into my loft and it stayed there until last week when I decided to buy myself a cheap truggy for bashing after buying my eldest son a pre owned buggy a few weeks earlier. My sons buggy came with some nicads and that got me thinking about the dormant TC3 in my loft so I went and got it to see what state it was in.... Thankfully it was in a half decent condition but it needs a be stripped down, cleaned and oils/grease replaced. It also needs a new rear arm (I have a couple spares). I also found out it needs a new motor cam because one of the screws holding rejoined when I tried to remove it (the tab on the motor that the negative wire was soldered to snapped so I need to rotate the motor to get to the other tabs). A bonus was that while my brother had it, he replaced the esc with a newer improved model. ...so now I'm going to need to get a replacement. In the mean time I soldered the power wires to the other tabs anyway but one wire protrudes quite badly from the cutout in the chassis under the motor. I don't really want to dump the motor yes as the brushes and comm are in fairly lean with little in the way of wear or carbon deposits so I'm going to see if I can attach the wires another way with my uber soldering skillage. If that works I'll use the motor until it dies, then I'll swap it for the brushless setup that came in my truggy (a new brushless setup can go in my truggy because that needs more oomph for the terrain I use it on). Sorry for the wordy post but I came across this forum the other week and it just reminded me of how much I enjoyed RC. I'll post some pics shortly of the car and the motor cam I need to get hold of. Is there anywhere that is uk based where I can get spares for the car? Any info will be gratefully received. Cheers.

I bought my son a used BSD Compression Buggy which is the slightly older buggy version of what you have. I paid

I'm going down the traumatic experience route too...

Dunno if c hubs are stronger. Depends on the materials used and the what kind of impact it is. I was driving my boys car the other week and clipped a fence post. I was driving fairly fast but the impact caused the screw holding the c-hub on to strip the thread in its housing. His car is also a cheap model and when I purchased the replacements the guy in the model shop said that the replacements where redesigned with bigger screws so presumably this was a common problem. Maybe similar would not happen with another brand but who knows. This evening we where both driving around when my sons car hit my front wheel square on. We where both to blame, I got in his way and he was driving too fast at the time. It was a considerable impact, I definitely wouldn't want that to have been my leg he drove into. Anyways, we've exchanged insurance details and they will work out who's liable lol.

Yup. I think I first remember seeing this kind of set up on 1:8 buggies when I when I was younger.

Parts are cheap too and seem to be quite easy to get hold of where I live. For the money it seems to be a bit of a bargain. The main issues are the battery, shocks and servo with the servo being the biggest hindrance.

Broke it! Me and my eldest where driving the cars in the garden and it was only a matter of time really lol. He smashed his BSD into my front wheel with a vengeance BANG! The wheel didn't look right after that. Thankfully its easily fixed, just a ball popped out of its socket but I think that was someone's way of saying that was the end of play for the evening... Can't wait to find some jumps for me and my son to bash about on.

Picked up the dominus today. Dominus:

Right, I think I may have arrived at a solution. I've found a place that is local to me (Gillingham, Kent) that sells these and can get hold of spares: http://www.wheelspinmodels.co.uk/i/178751/ The best thing about it is they are selling it for

You weren't joking about that guy bashing his RC's! I won't be trying to catch as much air as he was. I accept breakages happen and can do so almost randomly, I just don't want to be replacing bits too frequently...

Thank you, I never really thought about a monster truck because I just have visions of them wheelying more than I'd want.... Also, I think I was getting the team Durango stuff mixed up with the team c stuff. It's late lol... Do you have a links for the you tube channel?

Thanks for the info about Durango. They make a 4wd car that looks interesting too. I'm not hot on the looks of the slash though even though they do look like authentic scale models.

Thanks! Hmmm looks like it's well built. Seems to be heavy though. Great, now I'm sounding like I'm contradicting myself as weight could be a sign of strength... Also is it me or are steer wheel tx's kind of strange....

Thanks for your reply. Does the nt share wishbones etc?

Hi, this is my first post as I'm new to the forum and want to get back into RC cars after a 13 year break. Back story: In '89 my parents bought my my first RC car when I was 11, it was a Kyosho Corvette Hi Rider and I thought it was the best thing ever. Until my dad smashed the living daylights out of it when he took it out without me knowing. My dad tried to fix it with acrylic and hot glue. Anyways the car never made a full recovery as the damage was terminal and no one thought to try and get hold of spares. We move onto the late '90s (I think?) and I bought myself TL01 Ford Focus Kit and shortly after that a pre owned Team Associated TC3 (which I still have). Superb car, I learnt a lot from it and became a half decent driver while breaking wishbones at a ferocious rate. Then I bought a motorbike and the TC3 was tucked away in its box where it's remained since 2002. Back in the present and I now have a 10 year old son. The other week I had an epithany and decided to get him an RC car. It is a pre-owned BSD electric Compression Buggy as it looked decent and it made sense to get something that could be driven on varied terrain. After purchasing the buggy we killed the motor while running it over short grass in our garden. I replaced the motor with one of my old motors. That quickly died too probably because it needed brushes and a comm skim (no one seems to offer this service anymore, how times have changed...). Instead of buying a new brushed motor or trying one of my other motors (which also would need a service), I just bought a Reaktor motor/ESC combo. Now the car tears through the grass without an issue. Now I want a car for myself! I know that I don't want a BSD car because the way it's put together annoys me. Swapping out the motor was a joke compared to the TC3. Basically I have around