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Today sent the order for a new haul, not much. Rims for the 306, blue body clips, some spare parts for my rally car, a tamiya sticker on my 1:1 car, a carbon battery plate for my ff02 and a cool Pink motor plate for my GT01. Can't wait to prime and paint the rims!

Nice.

I thought I pressed submit but obviously I hadn't, so this was yesterdays stuff.. 
 
I ordered some more bits  another couple of sets of those alloy shocks and a really small set to see what they are like, some new black metal rod ends and some rods as everything RC seems to have put on weight over the years 4 x mg996 metal geared 12kg Servos from Amazon. (I ordered this morning they came before 5 this afternoon, super!) A pair of carbon fibre chassis rails, a 10 pack of 4mm ball head screws and some m3 x 300mm and m4x 300mm stainless steel rod so I can make my own steering bars or any bar any size i need. Oh and I ordered m2, m3, m4 & m5 brass tube.
As the Lunchy is almost ready to go (Wheels and shell left to get) I had to order a battery, I ordered 2x 3600 NIMH for the time being, they will be here tomorrow. I have plans for lipo in the future, but not yet.
My charger still works but had to fix a banana plug on the Tamiya lead. All good now. Repurposed an old variable voltage laptop psu to run the charger. Installed the Servos and speed controller on the Lunchy. took a few pics, its almost there. I can put some old wheels and tyres on to test. 

 
Almost there, just new wheels and shell and it will sit in pride of place as my 1st hobby RC 




I put the old shell on to see how it looked. I'm pleased with it so far.. 



Tool and spares box all nice and almost tidy



Anyone need hotshot gears? I need the insides for the Lunchy or Hornet gearbox if anyone has them to swap? 

Lee
 

Cold but shiny day. The lunchybrid cover is drying for several hours. Glued with araldit epoxy type glue.

Received today the servos planned for the Hornet and Super Storm Dragon. I replaced the temporary ones right away... Received as well a battery Li-Ion intended for the Mini Lunchbox (which has some very specific requirements in this area). Looking at it next to my Robitronic stick, I have very bad idea which would allow to have a 4S battery for the Hornet  ... As a friend say, power is everything, and power is never enough... Maybe tempted to think more about this... Joking!!! ESC won't like it I believe, and not sure about the 540.

That being said, I'm still awaiting for the Lipo ready for the Hornet (134 mm length) to arrive. This Li Ion battery maybe a way to allow it to run in the meantime, but I'm not exactly sure about the 540 current draw... This might be too much for the battery (Li-Ion - 2S - 1500 mAh - 10C)... 

Also received glitch buster ordered on amazon, but they were not properly cabled (jr connector, ground and signal rather than ground and positive). I tweaked them and got them properly connected, but complained anyway... Let's see what comes out of this...

As I have been out of the loop for such a long time, what is a glitch buster.  ?  A hornet with a 4s? that's nuts, it will melt on the spot lol. 

Lee

Well: it is a condensator you plug on your receiver to attenuate the effect of the current draw peaks. It acts as a secondary temp battery to avoid ESC's bec overload. Most of the servo I had are over the 1.5A supposed limit of the TBLE-02S (as per its specification). This should avoid any issue (specially when using a receiver with Stability control).

The datsun took a better face .

Today I started on Lunchy 2. I used the black cap head self tapping screws I got the other day, they look great.

 


I put Lunchy 3's gearbox together but it sounds a bit clicky and occasionally locks up so there is an issue somewhere.. Not sure what the problem is but I will sort that out when I need to.




Not a very busy day but I did something.

lee

Had to go out with my dad so while on my travels I popped past my local model shop and they were open. So I stopped and grabbed a can of TS16 yellow. 

 

Did you put the axle in the center of the main sprue of the diff?