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Tcs 5mm chassis
Just bought 1 of these and bent it on my first bashing outing. Anyone else broke the unbreakable? I'll get some photos on here later
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RE: Tcs 5mm chassis
I'd rather see a video of the landing that bent a 5mm chassis! What did you do, try to jump between two tower blocks and fall short? O.o
Looking forward to pics though.
Looking forward to pics though.
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RE: Tcs 5mm chassis
Here are 2 links for 2 videos (raw footage) the 1st is the jump that I think may have started to bend the chassis and the 2nd video is where it becomes obvious that something is not right I'll put some photos of just the 2 chassis plates up in a bit so you can how much they have bent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sJue...e_gdata_player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJ7m...e_gdata_player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sJue...e_gdata_player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJ7m...e_gdata_player
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RE: Tcs 5mm chassis
O.o I've seen stock chassis take harder beatings than that. You may just have been unlucky and caught it at a funny angle, 1 in 100 chance or something. TCS will probably warranty them for you but don't quote me on that.
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Dude, how the fark do you bend a 5mm chassis? I've never even bent the stock TVP. *** do you people do with your Savages, seriously? PIcs or it didn't happen
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RE: Tcs 5mm chassis
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O.o I've seen stock chassis take harder beatings than that. You may just have been unlucky and caught it at a funny angle, 1 in 100 chance or something. TCS will probably warranty them for you but don't quote me on that.
O.o I've seen stock chassis take harder beatings than that. You may just have been unlucky and caught it at a funny angle, 1 in 100 chance or something. TCS will probably warranty them for you but don't quote me on that.
2nd line on their page http://www.tcscrawlers.com/TCS-5mm-C...e-p-17757.html
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Dude, how the fark do you bend a 5mm chassis? I've never even bent the stock TVP. *** do you people do with your Savages, seriously? PIcs or it didn't happen
Dude, how the fark do you bend a 5mm chassis? I've never even bent the stock TVP. *** do you people do with your Savages, seriously? PIcs or it didn't happen
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Because we actually bash and beat the hell out of our trucks
Because we actually bash and beat the hell out of our trucks
I managed to completely mangle my FLM 4.7mm TVPs by running into a wall, and slightly tweak my 4mm IRC chassis on a jump off the berm of a BMX track, so nothing is indestructible.
What I'm wondering about however is the grade of 6061 aluminum TCS uses for their Flux chassis. I would not expect 5mm 6061-T6 to bend from the impacts shown in your videos, so I imagine they're using the much lower quality 6061-0. That would also explain why the price is so low.
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RE: Tcs 5mm chassis
Well this has certainly given ThunderbirdJunkie some food for thought.
Anybody want to buy a set of installed-but-never-run TCS stock length plates in blue? Time to make an order with FLM or IRC. ThunderbirdJunkie thought the material felt a bit soft.
Anybody want to buy a set of installed-but-never-run TCS stock length plates in blue? Time to make an order with FLM or IRC. ThunderbirdJunkie thought the material felt a bit soft.
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RE: Tcs 5mm chassis
I think I might get a set of new chassis plates down then use them as a template to make some out of steel? I've never liked aluminium any way!
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RE: Tcs 5mm chassis
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Well this has certainly given ThunderbirdJunkie some food for thought.
Anybody want to buy a set of installed-but-never-run TCS stock length plates in blue? Time to make an order with FLM or IRC. ThunderbirdJunkie thought the material felt a bit soft.
Well this has certainly given ThunderbirdJunkie some food for thought.
Anybody want to buy a set of installed-but-never-run TCS stock length plates in blue? Time to make an order with FLM or IRC. ThunderbirdJunkie thought the material felt a bit soft.
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RE: Tcs 5mm chassis
Cossey, ThunderbirdJunkie has bent and broken a lot of things on a nitro Savage that people didn't think was possible. On 6s, geared to the moon with a Castle 1520 1600 ThunderbirdJunkie is probably going to be going extremely FAST when he hits stuff when his electric one is finally finished...
F it, they were only about 20 bucks. ThunderbirdJunkie will give them a shot, and see what happens[&:][&:]
F it, they were only about 20 bucks. ThunderbirdJunkie will give them a shot, and see what happens[&:][&:]
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True to their word TCS have said they will repace the chassis all I needed was the invoice number and to send it back to them which cost £8.50!!!!!! And 7 working days just to get there!!!!!!!!!! But that's what you get for living on a rock in the sea. I'm very happy with the customer support.
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RE: Tcs 5mm chassis
Just got an email from TCS crawlers saying that my new chassis is in the post. And out of the hundreds they have sold I'm only the second person to have bent 1!
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RE: Tcs 5mm chassis
In my exp I've found that thinner 7075 alloy to be much better. no matter how thick 6061 is, it just doesn't seem to be up to the task of real bashing. Way back when, I got the HPI super TVPs made of 7075 and I put that truck through hell. They are still on today, the center skid also helps to keep it that much more rigid.
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RE: Tcs 5mm chassis
Just got my replacement chassis through the post today they congratulated me on the amount of carnage I had done to it and said that I'm only the 2nd person ever to return a damaged chassis out of the 100s that they have sold. I'm secretly impressed with that.
Before fitting the new chassis I was thinking maybe I would use these as templates and make or get made another set out of some tougher metal alu? Steel? Stainless steel?
What do you guys think?
Have you done this before?
Is it worth the extra effort and £?
Before fitting the new chassis I was thinking maybe I would use these as templates and make or get made another set out of some tougher metal alu? Steel? Stainless steel?
What do you guys think?
Have you done this before?
Is it worth the extra effort and £?
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RE: Tcs 5mm chassis
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Before fitting the new chassis I was thinking maybe I would use these as templates and make or get made another set out of some tougher metal alu? Steel? Stainless steel?
What do you guys think?
Have you done this before?
Is it worth the extra effort and £?
Before fitting the new chassis I was thinking maybe I would use these as templates and make or get made another set out of some tougher metal alu? Steel? Stainless steel?
What do you guys think?
Have you done this before?
Is it worth the extra effort and £?