Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Land Models / February 2005

Hi all, I've been involved with 1/10th scale on/off road cars/buggies/trucks
and 1/8th scale off road buggies but now I have the urge (yeah I know, I'm a
freak :) to get into 1/8th scale on road.
I would like to start off by slowly building/rebuilding up a kit and then

I keep waiting to hear news from traxxas that they are releasing a new
micro car or truck.Does anyone else think traxxas will come up with
something?

In an E Bay purchase I received a bunch of old Flat track/sprint car
conversion
parts that the seller said was meant for old Losi Junior 2s. I have no use
for these

Hi all I am helping a friend promote a web site. You see a childhood
friend of hers lost her husband at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11,
2001. She has run into some hard times and my freind wants to help her.
So she came up with the idea to market Just say NO to Bin Ladin

Friend has a electric stampede with a Reedy 10T and a Novak super
rooster ESC. Upon take off car stumbles and stalls, but after that it
really scoots. We have checked the wires, etc. Everything looks good.
Battery isn't the greatest- Epic 3000mah nimh.

I have a new .61 evolution that prefers to run clockwise.  Since my
airplane does not, this is a problem.  nine times out of ten, the
engine starts and runs smoothly, but in the wrong direction.  What can
I do to teach a new engine an old trick?  Dan

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hello all , I have an old to very old tamiya rc car that belonged to my
dad - is it ok to post pictures of it incase someone recognizes it?
unfortunalty when i was a kid i smashed it into a gutter and broke the body
clean in half , now ive done a patch job and it needs a coat of ...

A while back I built an adjustable power supply with a 12V 1.2A power
supply, a full wave bridge rectifier, and an LM117 adjustable
regulator.  I was thinking about using this power supply to quick
charge a small 5-cell 6V NiMH battery pack I use in a R/C car.

Who offers the fastest RTR car? How fast would an expected speed be on black
top?
....Ed

Trying to pick up and dust off old stuff.  I have an RC-10 truck and
some kind of dtx motor and a couple of batteries, charger, etc.  It's
probably been 10 years since I did anything with this stuff.  Will give
the batteries a trickle and see how they do.  I expect I will buy a

Hello, i want buy old traxxas cat  parts or the car complete, i´m
Portuguese.if someone have this model please contacte me.
Thank you, and sorry for my bad English.

Does anyone have any opinion on those things usually called motor testers or
motor checkers (or sometimes called poor man's dynos, althought they are not
even that really) ??
I would be interested in knowing if anyone uses one? How do you interpret