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Revised shock mount?

Ahh right, yes I see now Sounds great, any more revisions planned or do you intend on testing further?

Indeed, it is looking great Latest version of the rear arms looks like they are longer? How have the accumulative changes affected the turning circle etc?

This is a shame, I used RCMI a lot in the past, Cain always gave great customer service and had a good range of stock; sorry to hear things have ended like this. No need to "lol" Highlander, this blokes livelyhood is being affected

Following this, great to see innovations for the Merv

I switched from Nitro to Electric due to the re-tuning, mess and noise restriction on bashing spots and haven't looked back. There's no need to be exclusive though, neither is strictly better. The Merv is a fun little truck, if you want to throw it in a backpack and have a quick run whenever you want then it's ideal. Only restriction is length of grass or size of rocks etc. I bought the Brushed version for

Where will you be using the Merv?

I got mine from RCModelimports, might be worth sending Cain an email to see if he can get another in stock for you Conversion build in my sig Can't answer on Servo or wheels, sorry; I haven't tried myself.

I'd really recommend one of the 1/24th Losi's over the Micro T, I sold my T to buy a Micro SCT and I love it, i'll shortly be changing over the parts to make it a Truggy instead

Right, i've finally sorted it. I replaced the phillips head screws for hexes, but couldn't get ones that were a perfect match, there is one from Axial but no-where had them in stock, so tried two different types from HPI Top is M3 x 45mm Middle is standard Hyper TT M3 x 35mm Bottom is M2.6 x 35mm the M2.6 is the perfect length shank and thread, but there is just too much movement for my liking with the smaller diameter, I had hoped that if there was a tightness that the 2.6 would get around that, but the M3s are fine, so no idea what it was. Settled for cutting down the M3 x 45mm to size, the thread goes a little further inside the arm shaft, but it doesn't bind, job done Since taking the picture I moved the camber link back to the inner hole as forgot it was there from before when I re-assembled it - Have fitted the upright antenna tube, so just need to figure out where to drill the hole in the bodyshell, might take some ingenuity Once that's done it will be time to get it back out and re-adjust the settings and then get some running vids up

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They worked great, perfect grip on the grass and enough give through the leaves to make it fun but not un-controllable My current issue however is this: I thought i'd take a look at the suspension settings as the front was looking a little high, during my investigation I noticed that the left rear arm wasn't moving very freely. Closer inspection found that the upper and lower arm mounts for the hub carriers were a little tight, I loosened the upper one fine, but upon trying the lower one; it refused to come out. I ended up having to cut it free of the lower arm and have tried pulling with brute force, heating and manipulating it and finally oiling it; to no avail. So i'm going to have to drill it out tomorrow, pain in the backside the screw shaft must have bent ever so slightly when tightening it with the carrier grub screw or expanded or the carrier contracted around the screw. I'll be trying to replace the screw with a hex head one rather than the crappy cross-head that they've given..... The rear right-hand-side was fine.

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Nice 'Dodster, need to do the same for my TT rear arms. What brand of bubbly was that from? It has a strange texture and isn't rounded, heh

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Ok, took her out for the maiden run yesterday to bed in the diffs etc. nice and gentle, nothing too strenuous. Really pleased with how the truck handled, no griproll, great ground clearance and a good turn of speed even with the ESC settings turned down. And most importantly; no damage Here's the aftermath pics: A lot of leaves collected along the central driveline and at the rear, they aren't in this pic as I plucked them out after the first battery change. It was great fun running in the fallen leaves this time of year However there is a large build up of mud on the rear arms as shown in the next pic: So next thing for the project is to create some arm-guards so they don't foul up and create excess friction around the driveshafts/hubs to sap the performance. Took some temps after each battery (7.4v 6000mAh 65-130C Turnigy Nano-Tech), temperature outside was 10C according to my 1:1 cars' sensor, the Motor was roughly 64C, ESC 34C and Lipo 45C via infared measure tool Lots of long sweeping runs across reasonable length grass and some general twisty fun amongst the leaves. I've upped the steering rate from 60 to 80 on my Tx to give some sharper turns for the next run and i'll up the punch value on the ESC as well and re-do the temp readings along with a run-time per battery before I start changing the gearing. I'll be adding in a power cap to the Rx and will unfurl the antena and mount it upright to get some more range. I'll see how that goes and then will make a few more tweeks/modifications to the steering assembly or the servo end points etc

What would you want a tablet to sync with out of interest Joe? I don't have one; so am still looking at the usage i'd get out of it. I have an Ipod Nano for music, so I think i'd only use it for web-browsing, app games and watching movies when the TV is in use.

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Loved your downwards Kamikazi Got to practice some more, your ropework was excellent Must do it again sometime soon

You haven't got skills unless you can always use a grenade perfectly, used to play it tons on the Amiga with my brother in law Have it on Xbox, but haven't played it much after I bought it as it was surprisingly tough against the AI after so long away from it. I've sent you a friends request, but can't guarantee how often i'll be online and my subscription is due to run out at the beginning of December I think.