Let's start with my favourite....the Traxxas Slash 2WD VXL.
I managed to break the rear shock tower within the first week of owning it. So, the first upgrade was an STRC aluminium rear shock tower.
Next to break was a side nerf bar when a mate T-boned me. I replaced them with RPM.
After a few months the Titan brushed motor burnt out. This gave me a good excuse to upgrade to brushless with the Velineon system (which lead to new rubber......JConcepts Subcultures)
RPM gear cover was an early upgrade and the STRC battery strap is just a bit of wank really
Team Associated SC10-RS (sold)
The only upgrade I've done to this is changing the shocks to Losi Ten STCE's. The stock Associated shocks started to leak after a couple of months.
For some reason the Losi rears were extremely stiff in comparison to the fronts. So the rear needs some softening and more droop.
I'm not sure what the plan of attack is with that problem. Lower wt shock oil?....softer springs? shorter springs?
I also changed the front tyres to match the rears. It came with stock SC10 tyres on the front (KMC?) and JConcepts Subcultures on the rear.....which gave me alot of understeer. Now it's Subcultures all round.
....and what's this?.....a boat?
I know, it's only a cheap chinese jobbie. I actually bought it for my old man. It was 2nd hand so someone else had built it, provided the radio and rx and also did the apparently mandatory adding of weight to the keel.
It's seems to be fully operational but we've still yet to test it. Still looking for the right place for that.
I've never seen any RC boats there but it was one of the suggestions I made to the old man. It's often quite breezy there and pretty consistent. I think he wants to test it somewhere where the water isn't so deep first. We had a look at the pond at Bonython Park, it would've been perfect but the water is full of rubbish and general gunk.
Mawson Lakes seems to be the place where the pro's hang out but that's some serious water
The dude from RC Boat Bitz told me he heard of a guy getting a fine from using his boat in Mawson lakes. Someone dobbed him in. But surely a sail boat would be a different storey.
I've considered buying a fixed pitch 4 channel heli for a while now. The Blade and the Solo Pro have been tempting but then Jang convinced me that the V911 is pretty damn good for $50.
I must say the V911 is a great little heli! It's as stable as a coaxial but nice and fast when you want it to be too (dual rates)
Comes with a surprisingly nice backlit LCD screened transmitter, 2 batteries, a twin USB charger and a full set of spare blades (2 main and 1 tail).....all for under $50.
I've crashed it twice without any discernable damage.
Back when I had a slightly larger heli I started working on a helipad just for something to do. It's made from some building material that seems to be 2 sheets of aluminium sandwiching a thin layer of rubber/foam and 500mm in diameter.
It was good practice for masking, cutting, painting etc. It didn't turn out as good as I was hoping for, but I learnt a few things so it wasn't a total waste of time.
As you can see, it's a bit of a mess in there. I'm not sure where the best spot is for the receiver. I know that I should try to keep it away from stuff like the ESC, motor, battery (although it surprises me that the battery would cause problems)
Perhaps all the way up the front?....there's some space further forward in the nose.
There seemed to be 2 plugs coming from the ESC's direction. I'm still not sure which one is supposed to go into the throttle channel. One of the wires was wound around a little green ring half way along. What would that be? (you can almost see it under the bind plug tag)
The little green ring is suppose to stop interferance. (Jaycar sells them) but I wouldnt worry too much where you put your reciever. I wack mine where ever it fits best or looks the neatest and I have never had any problems ever.
I only have one JR and one Spektrum rx, the rest are HK orange ones and I have never had any issues with drop outs, range, glitches or what ever.
Whatever the 6th Aux channel does I won't be able to use it anyway. It looks like this 5ch plane comes with 6ch leads and the DX5e has come with a 6ch Rx.
the 6th channel isnt for running your ailerons on seperate channels is it? No Y lead, ailerons plugged into channel 2 + 6? Make sure you get a vid of the maiden i want to see this thing fly
This is possible. I'm guessing the black thing is actually the ESC and the other thing with clear plastic is a BEC? (the lead with the number 6 tag comes from the clear unit)
I have no experience with BEC's and I wasn't expecting to see one in this plane. Any idea's as to why I'd need one?
The manual had some nice colour photo's for the assembly but was completely lacking any technical information.
Looking at the HK website it says the plane comes with a 45A ESC w/ UBEC. So I guess that's it. Maybe it was intended for using a separate battery for the retracts. I don't really need it though do I?
I'm not sure what you mean there. I need to do some reading on BEC's I think.
It's going to run on 4S. I bought a couple of 2200 Turnigy nano-tech's but I haven't turned it on yet as I wanted to make sure it was all plugged in correctly first. I guess I can safely do that now.
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