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To one and all!

Merry Christmas to yin an all 

Merry Christmas!

mate gets his 2mrw had to wait to get the green version cant wait to chase it round with the truggy hehe 😁they do the little outfits on ebay for the rider too 🤣👍enjoy brudda

Mine arrived yesterday, I told myself I'm not opening it till Xmas 🤪

Wow did you have much on it ?

At least your not losing anything through it 

I once had a CSCS card arrive with someone else's picture on it. 

My mum has a driving licence with her surname spelt wrong on it from the DVLA….

Complain to your bank. They will the FCA regulated and have to fully investigate the cause, and have 8 weeks to resolve your complaint. They'll probably give you some form of compensation.

**** happens @Tug 🤣

lol is it still there to see i missed it to 😞

Yrkoon I told you it was there but thats what happens when you miss meetings 

7.2v is absolutely sufficient for RC work.

Intrigued though, what's the gyroscopic part? As in, what does it actually do?

Turn it left loosey or turn it righty tighty 🤣🤣🤣

The motion and speed is controlled with your wrist action. Its actually really good especially for RC work where you can really finely adjust the speed as opposed to a trigger. Being able to adjust the torque means less likely to strip anything (although i never fully tighten with power tools - many lessons learnt)

I see, that does sound interesting. Though i'm not sure about not being able to finely adjust torque via trigger, i think that depends on the trigger itself (whether or not it's soft etc). 

And yeah.. last turn always by hand. 

That gyroscopic thing does sound cool mind, gotta see if they have something with that mechanism at our hardware store. Though, not as cool as i thought it'd be when i heard "spinny thing" (Gyroscope). 😄

tbh for £500 id back out the first deal sorry but thats  a massive amount how much is the original price 53?

It’s a 1982 3 speed Hilux. I wouldn’t have approached the seller but the buyer has not even paid lol 

sealed kit or made up 

I have ordered a few things and they have been spot on

Just ordered a vanquish vs410 phoenix from them. Spoke on phone several times all good. They emailed me on Thursday saying my truck had arrived and asked me to pay the balance of my pre-order, which I did on Friday.  Got an email this morning saying my truck had shipped via dpd.

Communication has been good so can't complain at the moment.  I'll see how the box has been packaged when I get the delivery next week. 

Just noticed your from Wolverhampton too... where do you take your trucks?

What watch? 2nd hand? If so When was it last serviced/who serviced it?

@Kpowell911 Breitling endurance pro directly from goldsmiths new!! 

Iv had issues with my avenger and insisted on a refund rather than it being sent to breitling for repair 6 weeks after buying it. Breitling watches just aren't what they used to be

and the wet and cold lol 

Hope you had a great holliday 

£429 plus vat?

Nope including 😛 

Its £549 for me 

Swear there is more 'bitey stuff' this year!  While not as bad, I had something like that over the weekend and it made a large circle on my forearm swell up.   

Hope you're doing ok. My mum had the same last month, was a horse fly that bit her, took about 2 weeks to clear up!

Stop peeing in the garden  then 😂😂

Its a showmans engine i dont think its the mamod 1

There was another company that did them but cant remember the name 

 wilesco make some that looks like it  also kits, but yours looks like it started off ok  but then bits custom fitted

£40 bit of a bargain 👍

Tried the snap off blades?  

https://www.stanleytools.com/products/hand-tools/knives-blades/snap-knives

Even the plastic fantastic 9mm budget one (couple quid new) is sturdy enough, and sharp

If it's just for opening boxes then I'd get an Irwin retractable knife or snap off blade knife. Had mine for years, very solid and well made compared to some. Stay away from plastic knives imho unless you're happy to treat it as a disposable/replaceable tool. 

Opinel a knife for life .......................https://www.opinel.com/en

I was working down Wolverhampton and West Brom way for my employer doing electrical inspections. My van is a dark grey double cab Transit that looks more like a minibus so survived the trip but lads with white vans were getting hit regularly outside the Travelodge car park in West Brom.

Cops couldn't get a handle on it and you know the courts would give them a slappn the wrist anyway. If you laid in wait to give them a hiding you can guarantee they'd throw the book at you. 

As with any petty theft of this type ..... it only happens because idiots think it's OK to buy cheap knocked off power tools.

Oh nice..,I got a £300 tool for £50 down the car boot.

If they stopped doing that, then the market dries up and the thieves will stop thieving power tools.

What the fools don;t realise, it that after they build up their collection of stolen power tools, they are now a target of the very trade they helped maintain.

Last attempted theft I had was Leeds Ibis hotel car park, went out for dinner, came back to a folded side door. Tools were on the job, so I lost nothing. However, the insurance company tried to triple my premium because the van had three grands worth of damage. Not insuring with them again, protected no claims meant nothing! What a rip. 

Happy birthday. 

happy birthday bud 🙂

Happy Birthday!

The Kraton 8S/EXB is a dog. It bends, and the A Arms snap…. Literally not heard anyone Other than above suggesting its tough….

Wouldn't buy a large Arrma ever, not even with someone else's money. You have to spend the purchase price again in upgrades. They're pitiful. Awful plastics and bendy ally. 

My KM X2 is a weapon, sent and never bent. Yet I also know people who've bent genuine Losi 5ive's without even jumping them. Go figure. 

Any plastic becomes brittle in the cold, simple answer is don't run it in winter. 

Despite loathing Traxxas, I'd take an X-Maxx over an Arrma all day long. 

Well someone drank the fell into the koolaid tank.

And who'd have thought that a truggy handles better than a monster truck, revelation after revelation. 

Bit harsh for Mothers on Mothers Day haha

Good heads up bro save the confusion monday morning lol

Ahh ok thanks, i've got some of that on the shelf, never thought to use it for tyres, always used no-nonsense CA from screwfix!  How does the gorilla glue hold with higher rpm's / 4S lipo?

Once it stuck its done bert ive ran 6s and blown centre of tyre from the foams expanding they were still sealed to the rim bead haha its great stuff just put a little though brother as it expands when drying so a smear is fine 👍even fixes ripped tyres for a few more bashes too lol

I've always used Bob Smith Industries hasn't let go on any of the tyres I've glued. 

Arrma 3s range IMO ...Had my "big Senton" out today but, so cold.....I gave up before the car did ! 🤣

I hear good things about the MT10 if you want 4WD.  2WD, then you'd struggle to beat the ECX Ruckus / Torment for the money, but they're not as prevalent now here in the UK, so parts aren't as readily available as they were 5 years ago, but then you hardly ever need any 😁

As a basher? 1/10th scale?

 I’ve found both slash 4x4 and stampede 4x4 to be our go to Rc.

that Corally Sketer looks good too but a bit of a unknown….

if you go any higher on the cell count to 4s then I’d be looking at something 1/8 based maybe.

just my two penneth of course…

Size, price & your bank balance 😄 

I find the X-Maxx quite easy to lug around. The wheelie bar is a very convenient carrying handle, and it doesn't weigh much for the size. You'll appreciate that once you have lugged a DBXL-E around, which in the end i had to DRAG on a line behind me because by the time i got where i wanted to be, i  just couldn't be arsed to collect my arms that had fallen off half a mile away, and wanted to get home. 

As Guns pointed out, switch to Max6 immediately, and that's it. The truck is, for the moment, perfect. He's correct about the rear hubs, but they don't need doing immediately. I've driven mine quite a while on standard hubs and worked just fine. Mine came with an indestructible shell, so no goo for me. 

All in all, and i say that as a certified Traxxas-"disser", it's probably the best RC on the market if you can stomach the price. It just is. The only downside to it is that it's expensive - as in, high price of admission, not overpriced like the Maxx. 

Find a used one with a Max 6 for around the £7/850 mark, itll always be worth around that. Or wait and see if there is a V3 Wide one coming out?

And obviously, youll want a quad charger and 4x 4s lipos ideally

What did I miss? 

Many of us got a free nookie email

Damm i missed that 1 lol 

Who did you buy from?

Tamico 

I got one from HMRC the other day, it wasn't one saying we owe you loads money ☹️

Doesn't Hoss have more in common with a HCG Slash 4x4?  Bit like a Monster Slash (with a narrow body).

Definitely a Maxx.

yeah sort of ber like if a daddy slash and mummy pede had a baby it would have a lil hoss 🙂 now if the worlds greatest ever RC had a baby you would get a maxx 👍😃

not often you hear that mate, at least you would get your money back 🙂 

I have heard that once they see it they try to drop the price.  But as prices on everything have gone mad  you might be lucky

Its how the car market is at the moment mate. It’s completely genuine too, a few people I know who have more than one car have sold their second/ prestige vehicle to We Buy Any Car, theyve knocked a few quid off, but nothing major. My friend got more off We Buy Any Car for his GT model Porsche thn Porsche offered part ex…..

Vans are hillarious. We Buy Any Van have offered me £15 more than I paid for my Van…… I brought my van in 2019, Ive done nearly 40,000 miles and Ive scrapped the side up a ballard…..

However, the prices of what you would buy has gone up, so its pointless unless you can sell, do without and re buy when market stabilises.