Anyone into remote control cars?

[DEEZUZ]

the unimog is so sick.

i want to build something this winter i think.

even the cherokee looks neat.

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This one

 

[DEEZUZ]

I really want a crawler then I want to grt into construction equipment.

 

[Yaj Yak]

This one

soooo sick

i thought you meant this:

i wanna build it though. this is a sweet looking kit

 

[DEEZUZ]

Also sweet but having watching Doug review a actual 6x6 got me even more so excited for one.


And I don't want to build no. Nope. Rtr for me.

 

[Yaj Yak]

i had more fun building them as a kid than i did driving them. so that's kinda my mindset.

 

[Yaj Yak]

shit. trx4 is available as a pretty easy appearing kit.

the tamiya crawler stuff looks sweet though too.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Man those are some badass crawlers. Just ordered a basic bitch NIMH battery for the parts I have laying around here. Need to 3D print a battery retainer for it and get it ready to assemble. I also need to get the pins to retain the body. I'm thinking hardware store ones are okay?

 

[Yaj Yak]

oh wow

 

[Yaj Yak]

DEEZUZ

i mean, you just need to.

 

[DEEZUZ]

Shitty ground clearance..... Need portals

 

[Yaj Yak]

i mean, it's true to scale then at least.

 

[DEEZUZ]

No need to tell me. I've been frame deep a time or 2

 

[DEEZUZ]

I'd want a metal body so it could rust

 

[Yaj Yak]

yes

 

[Yaj Yak]

holy. fucking. nostalgia.

Behold the Wonders of the 1992 Tower Hobbies Catalog - RC Car Action

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[Bob Kazamakis]

Tamaya shit was always terrible plastic that broke instantly. They seem more like models.
I really want one of those traxxas crawlers, think they even have a blazer or bronco now.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

holy. fucking. nostalgia.

Behold the Wonders of the 1992 Tower Hobbies Catalog - RC Car Action

RC Cars & Trucks | News | Traxxas Horizon Hobby Tamiya and more | Readers Ride PIT TIPS Nitro RCX Event Coverage | Behold the Wonders of the 1992 Tower Hobbies Catalog

www.rccaraction.com

Hell yeah I remember going over the Tower Hobbies catalogs and reading all the RC Car Action reviews. Wanted so many cool cars.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Tamaya shit was always terrible plastic that broke instantly. They seem more like models.
I really want one of those traxxas crawlers, think they even have a blazer or bronco now.

Tamiya makes some awesome scale looking cars, but the hardware components were always shit. Even now they are still made with shit plastic, pot metal Philips screws, and friction shocks.

The sad part is they created some truly amazing cars with incredible chassis engineering. Their F201 chassis is one of my favorite cars, but it was built with the cheapest shit. They built a 1/10th scale F1 car with inboard shocks, and a revolutionary AWD design that fit under a scale looking F1 body. The packaging is insane and they did it before the LiPo batteries became popular, so it fit a full 7.2v Sub-C cell pack mid-ship.

With today's ESC and motor tech they could create a scale looking RC car that was super light and super competitive.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

I remember having bigfoots and clod busters and they always broke doing basically nothing. Was so frustrating

 

[Yaj Yak]

i had kyosho and traxxas stuff growin' up.

that axial kit looks enticing and so does the kit traxxas stuff.

albeith the traxxas kit looks almost like a technic's lego kit.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

I always bought HPI. Now traxxas owns them.

 

[Pewter-Camaro]

I had a bunch of Tamiya Clod axle based Monster trucks and crawlers. I used to buy a Clod kits and sell everything except for the axles and used to make money on the kit doing that too. Stock clods were shit but man with a custom 4 link chassis and locked diff they were fun as shit.

I fucking hate that Traxxas still sends me videos of their latest stuff. Makes me really want one of their scale realistic trucks like that Blazer.

 

[torquelover]

This thing looks great crawling.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Hey dumb question for you guys. are my controllers hosed if I can turn the front wheels and I can't get the back wheels to turn? I've tried two Traxxas Controllers and I've hooked the motor straight the battery and it runs. Thinking it probably popped a few FETs but just wondering if there's a trick I missed. Does it matter what channel on the RF circuitry it's plugged into? They're pretty goddamn proud of these things at 70 bucks!

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

So it sounds like your car has a regular DC brushed motor and not a brushless (3 wire) setup.

if the motor turns when battery is directly connected it could still be either the receiver or the speed controller.

Get the wheels off the ground, swap the throttle and steering channels. If the motor remains dead, and the throttle now controls steering servo then it almost 100% that the speed controller is bad.

The good news is that means its time to upgrade to Brushless and LiPo!