A Secondary Hobby of mine

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Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:26 pm

May I first start off with.. GOD its been a long time since Ive been on here. Lots of great new cannons, ect ect. Anyway, Just thought I'd show you guys what Ive been dumping my money into lately (instead of spud guns), mostly due to the fact that im pretty sure most people on this forum (unless alot has changed) would probably love to get their hands on one.

Here it is...


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I Will try to get zoomed versions of the last two up, and here's a link to my facebook album with closeups of all the insides (and the title is a joke. Don't take it literally and its funny. trust me)

Specs:
Engine: .28 Axial Spec 1S
Car: Ofna LX-One Ultra
Scale: 1/8
Type: Buggy
Features:
4 wheel drive
dual disk brakes (one for front and rear tire sets)


http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1 ... 6ce6f75fe8

Feel free to post your own Hobby-grade RC cars here (if its ok with le Mods)
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:30 pm

very cool, the second pic is awesome!!!
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Current Project: None, I'm in Spudremission.
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:31 pm

isnt it? The wonders of having a camera that has a shutter speed of 1/6000 of a second...
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:06 pm

Nice car you got there. I've been looking to get the 1/16 E-Revo VXL but I'm torn between that and a 26" trials bike. Man I wish I was rich...
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:10 pm

haha I bought this with the money I made over the summer. I intended to only spend about 500 of the large sum I got, but... Ive spent a good $1000 on this thing. All in good fun though, Its truly a tinkerers heaven.

and all Traxxs cars are great. If you are considering it, Id do it. try to find a place to race it as well, It adds a whole dimension of fun onto it.
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:25 pm

Feel free to post your own Hobby-grade RC cars here (if its ok with le Mods)
Only if you let JoergS shoot at it with his sling shot! :twisted:
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:26 pm

Lmao tht made me laugh jrrdw..

Btw cool hobby you have ... im guessing rc modded cars or something similar o.o?
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:47 pm

jrrdw wrote:Only if you let JoergS shoot at it with his sling shot! :twisted:
Funny you say that... We made a lexan covering and then scammed fellow visitors of my schools fair money by allowing them 5 shots with a paintball gun to try to shoot my car, and if they did, they got to shoot me... Was great fun.

That and its a hobby because this thing takes constant maintenance and fixing/tinkering. Its not like I can just pull it off the shelf like a toy car and have it work, and its not like i can drive it for a few seconds and put it away. you have to tune everything, set everything, put in every screw, measure like 50 different angles, ect ect.
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:50 pm

0.15 or a 0.18 engine, this is gas right?
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:06 pm

Specs added to Original post. If there are any more I will place them there as well.

And to answer your question, Because it feels weired not to, Its a .28 Nitro engine.
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:07 pm

VH_man wrote:(and the title is a joke. Don't take it literally and its funny. trust me)
haha excellent!

I would have to say, ladies, this is what you should aspire to:

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Though really, you wouldn't want a woman that size :roll: :D
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:35 pm

expensive hobby, i used to have a team losi xxxnt. i sold it cause it seemed like i was buying replacement parts every weekend. the differential was poorly designed not to mention plastic gears and a single cruddy disk break. but it was fun when it worked. at the time i had it i was also into paintball another expensive hobby especially since there is no conservation of paint with an eclipse ego. if i was going to buy another i would buy a high end electric since electricity is my field of study.
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Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:39 pm

I got a tmaxx w/3.3, rustler vxl w/8 cell battery, and rc18mt w/ mamba 6700 brusless system. Here is a couple of videos I made when I first got into it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oT4KVyiLlA and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx2CC1y2Jmc. They are kinda lame but hey its a video right.
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Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:12 am

I have a T-4 with a vector x-11, sphere, road hawgs, nearly all converted to FT parts, hitec MG, spektrum 2.4 gear etc. It needs to be rebuilt, and I need to completely fabricate some new parts and find some replacements. (it would be nice not to rebuild the diff so often).
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Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:24 am

Nice, i have an acme NB16 (cant get it to work :cry: ) and a stock Team associated rc18 thats pretty fun
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