Team Associated RC8Be Thread
02-07-2011 | 12:29 PM
#2282
02-07-2011 | 12:33 PM
#2283
Congrats Gregg! I saw your post on the Tekin thread. Awesome!
As for the soldering station, check out that Hakko 936ESD. Awesome station. Goes up to 900F, IIRC. I used it on my RX8 and it worked awesome*. Solder flowed very nicely, and I was able to get pretty decent solder joints.
*Except where I touched the RX8 shroud with the iron by accident...oops!
As for the soldering station, check out that Hakko 936ESD. Awesome station. Goes up to 900F, IIRC. I used it on my RX8 and it worked awesome*. Solder flowed very nicely, and I was able to get pretty decent solder joints.
*Except where I touched the RX8 shroud with the iron by accident...oops!
02-07-2011 | 12:38 PM
#2284
Thanks billy, I replied back. I hope this nightmare is over, at least for a little while. I have a great iron, but I cant find tips for it. This is the 3rd iron ive had to buy, and now they dont sell tips, it seems like an easy replacement Im just not looking in the right place I guess. but I wanted to get a decent brand that sells replacement parts that are easily accessible. I just a 6 mm x 75 mm pencil tip. 
02-07-2011 | 12:46 PM
#2287
And I just goosed the throttle on the Tekin, I dont have the steering servo installed yet, but just the smoothness and tire ballooning its going to kill my MMM, Very impressed...
This makes me wonder if I had my MMM setup wrong. This thing turned all 4 tires into saw blades in about 2 secs. My MMM did a little, but not like this.
02-07-2011 | 12:53 PM
#2289
Well, you could go and buy one of every replacement tip size they have. Then you don't have to make another trip! 
j/k $5 huh? That's a lot more than the usual tolls around here. Fortunately, I have a Fry's about 20 minutes from my place.
Are you using 4S? My tires ballooned quite a bit on 4S, but nothing like they did on 6S! The Ofna belted slicks are kind of freaky as they don't balloon at all. They expand just a tiny bit, but that's it.
j/k $5 huh? That's a lot more than the usual tolls around here. Fortunately, I have a Fry's about 20 minutes from my place.Are you using 4S? My tires ballooned quite a bit on 4S, but nothing like they did on 6S!
The Ofna belted slicks are kind of freaky as they don't balloon at all. They expand just a tiny bit, but that's it.
02-07-2011 | 01:21 PM
#2291
There are a lot out there, check amain, to the left side search type in RC8, Fioroni, Kind heads, etc.
Yes, Im on 4S and its pretty bad, my castle didnt do it like that. not like I go around doing that all the time, but...
And I decided that Im going to the track this weekend anyway, and I have to drive out there anyway to go to the track, so I will get it on the way home from there. Its 70 miles, my car takes premium and its $3.69 a gallon and $5 for a toll. And I get 22 on the highway with the cruise on and A/C off. And 67 degrees here is A/C weather when you have the windows rolled up.
Whats a tyre? 
I am not strapping or taping my "tyres"
Well, you could go and buy one of every replacement tip size they have. Then you don't have to make another trip! j/k $5 huh? That's a lot more than the usual tolls around here. Fortunately, I have a Fry's about 20 minutes from my place.
Are you using 4S? My tires ballooned quite a bit on 4S, but nothing like they did on 6S! The Ofna belted slicks are kind of freaky as they don't balloon at all. They expand just a tiny bit, but that's it.
j/k $5 huh? That's a lot more than the usual tolls around here. Fortunately, I have a Fry's about 20 minutes from my place.Are you using 4S? My tires ballooned quite a bit on 4S, but nothing like they did on 6S!
The Ofna belted slicks are kind of freaky as they don't balloon at all. They expand just a tiny bit, but that's it.And I decided that Im going to the track this weekend anyway, and I have to drive out there anyway to go to the track, so I will get it on the way home from there. Its 70 miles, my car takes premium and its $3.69 a gallon and $5 for a toll. And I get 22 on the highway with the cruise on and A/C off. And 67 degrees here is A/C weather when you have the windows rolled up.
Whats a tyre?
I am not strapping or taping my "tyres"
02-07-2011 | 01:28 PM
#2292
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Joined: Sep 2010
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From: Norheimsund, Norway
Oh, and ever since i got my RC8e i have wondered what these two holes are, just below the Mamba Monster logo, on the "tray" for the ESC. Hope you follow me..
02-07-2011 | 01:29 PM
#2293
What kind of car do you have Gregg? My diesel 2500 can get just over 19 MPG cruising on the highway! My daily driver gets close to 30, which is nice with a 40 mile one-way commute, which translates into 20k+ miles a year just driving to/from work!!
I also saw $3.69 for premium!
It's $3.19-ish here, and diesel is only $3.39-ish.
Doug, I haven't taped any of my tires. I thought about it, but the ballooning is not that bad, and it's actually kind of funny to watch (until I burn up a few sets of expensive tires...).
My daily driver gets close to 30, which is nice with a 40 mile one-way commute, which translates into 20k+ miles a year just driving to/from work!!I also saw $3.69 for premium!
It's $3.19-ish here, and diesel is only $3.39-ish.Doug, I haven't taped any of my tires. I thought about it, but the ballooning is not that bad, and it's actually kind of funny to watch (until I burn up a few sets of expensive tires...).
02-07-2011 | 01:54 PM
#2295
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The mount is a traxxas mamba monster mount from the erevo
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXXFD3&P=ML