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  • Repairs complete on Monster Beatle

    I sat down last night with the parts and managed to change out all the parts that required.

    The rear diff would have to be the most difficult part of the job, as I couldn’t remove some screws that holds the motor plate from below the car. I suspect if these need to be removed sometime, I will need to drill them and replace them.

    I also noticed previously some of the c-clips that hold the pin for the front and rear carriers had dropped off. I ordered the only c-clips you could get and these are too big. I noticed during work last night that a larger c-clip sits on the drive shaft just behind the slipper clutch. So the ones I got would be for that.

    Can’t see any spare for smaller c-clips that I require, so will need to do some more research.

    Truck can run, we will just need to monitor that the pins don’t drop out.

    This repair took me 3 hours, and I also noticed that the rear shock tower broke on lower section when we screwed bottom right screw back in, so this will need repair soon enough.

    Now my son has his truck to use again.

  • HobbyKing Spare Parts Order Arrives

    The HobbyKing Spare Parts Order I made in the last 2-3 weeks arrived. Now I will be able to do the pending repairs against my son’s Monster Beetle.

    Ordered duplicates across a number of parts, as the spares are very cheap and since I was making order good time to double up on common items that might break again.

    Will post additional details on the ordered items in the next few days. Soon as I catalog what I got and what it’s used against.

  • Turnigy 4×4 Mini Trooper and Monster Beatle ESC Upgrade or Replacement

    The ESC in my Turnigy 4×4 Mini Trooper seemed to break and as such I was requiring a replacement.

    If you need to replace and/or upgrade the ESC in either of these Remote Controls you can use the one below as a direct replacement. However, it won’t come with any connectors for the motor or battery, so you will need to order those items too and get them soldered on. It’s also a good idea to buy some of the heat shrink tube too.

    And I would also highly recommend purchasing the programming card for the ESC, as the programming of the ESC for changes via the button on the ESC is difficult at best. It’s the part number below;

    HobbyKing HK-30A ESC
    HobbyKing HK-30A ESC

  • Axial SCX10 2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited C/R Edition

    I’ve previously owned a Traxxas Revo 2.5R and Taxxas Brushless Revo, however I sold off the later unit to fund the new car.

    Have always wanted an Rock Crawler, so decided the time had come to switch.

    Purchased an Axial SCX10 2012 Jeep Wranlger Unlimited C/R Edition.

    Problem I now face is what upgrades to do and in what order to perform them. This will be a sequence of future posts covering all aspects of the transformation from an RTR to a custom setup.

    For now I’ll post some pictures of it out of the box on its maiden use.

    IMG_1095 IMG_1093

  • Turnigy Brushless 4WD Monster Beatle suffers first failure

    I didn’t really post about this, but I gave my 4 year old son a 1/16 scale Turnigy Brushless 4WD Monster Beatle that completely adores. You can check it out over at HobbyKing via the direct link here.

    He is allowed to use it when supervised and in a nice open area like a park, since running it on 2S LiPo means it moves pretty quickly. This could of been limited by the use of a more expensive controller, but I opted to get all the bits from the Australian Hobbyking Warehouse to limit postage costs.

    Anyways, long and the short of the story is that it suffered it’s first failure. The steering servo looks as though it probably has stripped some gears, although I am not surprised as everyone mentioned this would probably happen. I think the main reason it did as he actually ran the thing into an object by accident.

    Not to fear, some spare parts ordered on Sunday.

    Still impressed with the Remote Control car itself, as its a lot of fun for the price.

  • Traxxas Telluride 4×4

    I got an email 2 days ago from Traxxas that was advertising the new Telluride 4×4 1/10 scale remote control coming out.

    I must say it really got me interested, as I am interested in getting some more R/C gear, and this looks like a good robust truck.

    Stay tuned, I might end up buying one much later in the year.

    I bought two other R/C car’s earlier this year and will be unwrapping those when I get them as a gift, more details will follow when I open them.

  • HobbyKing Remote Control Car Purchases

    I wanted to purchase a remote control that my sons and I could use together, and it needed to have good parts support. i.e where parts could be purchased for every aspect of the car.

    After some research I decided to give some of the products at HobbyKing a go.

    I ended up purchasing two car’s, and the following items too, as the car’s come ARR (almost ready to run).

    Will be doing more posts about these HobbyKing car’s we purchased, as it’s hard to know what to order when things break, so I will share my experiences with them.

  • Remote Control Fun

    Met up with some friends today and we all had a bit of fun with our remote control cars. As you can see from the photo below it was a bit hectic.

    I’d recently got a hand band GoPro mount so decided to mount my GoPro Hero3 on my head so that it could just capture photos every 5 seconds constantly. It actually captured some good photos to be honest. Will be using it more in the future.

    DCIM100GOPRO