Evo_KnEvo

Finished up a New XRT Slider that was purchased a few months ago. All new electronics (Hobbywing 5690 1250kv and Max5 ESC), 1/5 scale wheel & tire combo, Futaba sensors etc. 1st “Real Electric R/C”. Only Gas & Nitro with a few cheap electrics along the way since the 70’s. WOW. What a machine. 8S Lipo doesn’t disappoint. lol.

suburban_hooligan

i mowed and seeded my track lol

suburban_hooligan

found this old video and uploaded it. quick and pointless.

Calaboose

Hi. I got these in a trade.
They were mixed into a pile of tmaxx parts I got. The bars were in a baggie and look brand new and unused. Hardware was included. The blue pieces are aluminum but I have no clue of what these things are

Calaboose

You are not allowed to post URLs until you have at least 10 posts - Is the attached picture a link?

wan6176

hi I'm looking for fg beetle pro rte new or jus the body shell.where can I purchase it.thanks buddy cheers

suburban_hooligan

my stuff has been collecting dust. but i have the hankering to run nitro. i have a quart. i dug the nitro RS4 2 out. i need to charge the receiver pack. maybe sometime this next week ill stop off after work and run it.
i uploaded an old video to my youtube channel to help motivate me

i really should do more with that channel...

suburban_hooligan

today was the day. burned some nitro!

suburban_hooligan

told myself i was going to make 35 new videos for my youtube channel this year. so far iv done an honest 2. almost 6 months into the year im a little behind schedule. so im currently doing some prepping and vehicle/equipment inspections. planning on doing a lot of running and filming next weekend. nothing crazy, just some very old school backyard shenanigan's. probably some Clodbuster, Wheely King, and Kyosho Stadium Baja, driving. maybe some 1/18 scale and Mini Z stuff. idk if ill break out the fast stuff as im limited on space and don't want to mess up my lawn. the OG Stealth box RC10 is a possibility... might also stop off and run electric TC's this next week, i pass a parking lot everyday that iv been meaning to try out.

suburban_hooligan

drove the first hobby grade RC i ever bought, Kyosho Stadium Baja. also drove my Tamiya Super Clodbuster, HPI Wheely King, RC10 Worlds Car rerelase, RC10T, and HPI Savage XS SS.
and the only thing i managed to break was a drive pin on the Savage XS, which seems to be a common occurrence. i think this is the 6th one iv broken.

videos coming, eventually...

edit: and more coming, eventually...

suburban_hooligan

Clodbuster videos up!

suburban_hooligan

original RC10T with brushless lipo power comin' at ya!

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got around to editing this

suburban_hooligan

finally glued up a set of Proline Blockade 2.2 buggy tires for my Worlds Car. gave it a quick run on thick grass. they worked pretty good. im happy with them.

SyCo_VeNoM

lets see it has been ages so I cleaned a few up thinking of selling them. sold my savage flux already a little while back.

fixed a few others that were laying in parts for over 12 years.

went to see the condition of my lipos as I had the itch to run one, and saw the cells I stored at 3.8v's and checked every 1-2 years they were in storage were reading 5.3v's each >.> used them to center the steering on one I put a steering servo back in, but I definitely won't run them on that.

Now not selling all I am definitely keeping my 2 DF-02's, and my crawlers, and Jammin .5's,, my 1/8th scale electric converted jammin crt(doubt I'd get a fraction what I put into it), and prolly my stampede 4x4, but I might make it back into a slash 4x4(it originally was one I just bought a stampede chassis and drive shaft, and a few other parts). contemplated making the nitro jammin buggy I have electric, even made a motor mount, but changed my mind when I was trying to figure out how to put the batteries in it.

I've also thought about reassembling my old wheelyking after seeing the video above, but I'm not sure where I put its transmission(and pretty sure I butchered it up), and I would have to scrap my 6wd build to get its parts back, or scrap the other crawler I made of wheely king axles, and 3d printed parts.

suburban_hooligan

so another words, you've been busy.

SyCo_VeNoM

semi busy
found out today my old 1st gen 2.4ghz Eurgle radio is dead gonna take it apart to see why its not powering up later or maybe tomorrow as if I can't fix it as without it I only would have 1 radio for them.

suburban_hooligan

fun, probably a bad capacitor or something

SyCo_VeNoM

yea that is my guess I've just not had time to look as something else came up. or when I connected the lipo the voltage toasted something.

radio also looks like a royal pain to dismantle so that too is part of the reason for the postponement if it was a simple 4 screws and its apart deal I'd have done it by now.

SyCo_VeNoM

well checked my lipos again with a different multimeter, and they all read 3.72 - 3.82 volts per cell so they should be good still. They aren't swelling or anythings so might give them a try.

Reason I rechecked was I took the one radio apart that isn't working to see if there was anything obviously wrong with it, and I decided to do a basic continuity check to see if there was a break in the line, and its power died. I noticed it had a blinking battery notification on the screen, and grabbed my backup multimeter.
So anyways I was checking if there was voltage at the switch with my backup multimeter, and noticed the 3s lipo I had for my radios which I had hooked up which was reading 15v on the other multimeter was reading 11.2 volts so I checked all the cells, and was like hmm they were all reading around 3.8v with a drift of +/- 0.1v. Then I grabbed my ammo can of lipos and checked em all, and they all were similar I think one was 0.2v's difference between cells. Not bad for not being balanced storage charged in over 4-5 years.


Side note that radio... internally it was 3 caps, around 50-80 of the smallest surface mount resistors I've seen that there is no way to read the value of, and 3 IC's. As I have no schematic, nor idea what the pin outs of the chips are there is no way to diagnose it further. I was hoping it would be some simple issue like the power wire's solder joint broke off(I've had that in electronics), or a bad switch, but alas those were working right.