Happy with junk?

[Mad Racer]

Got this pile of bits for $60,





Turned out better then I thought.

[Incredible_Serious]

Thanks for posting that, Mark.... I was wondering what something I've had for years was.... turns out to be a Samurai bit, the white gear housing bit with the dog bone outdrives and the red plastic at either end, lower middle in that pic. Ooh, and those arms with the long bit of wire hanging off them as well.... I wonder if I have thrown them away yet???

Kudos on the cleanup!

Alex

[Mad Racer]

No problem Alex.

I must say I will found it hard to know what it is too if i hadn't pulled one apart.

A very odd looking diff and arm with a torsion bar..

[badhoopty]

back when i was full-on into into the buggies i really liked getting something that had some use/history to it. not the clapped out stocker rc10s, but more the retired race rigs that were handed down and then abused.

i kinda looked at it as rescuing a rig that would otherwise end up being thrown out or whatever.

this by far is my favorite rescue. when i got it, it had about 20 darn coats of black krylon over the entire thing, the shocks were stuck, etc.
in the ebay listing it looked like a completely trashed pos, but i knew what it was and luckily nobody else did. got it for pretty cheap iirc.
teardown and soak in some super clean, and some time, and imho it cleaned it up pretty well.

[losiXXXman]

Hoopty, you have to tell us what it is, and show us the thread SOme of us haven't been on the board since the beginning. I have been through almost all the threads, and don't remember seeing that killer....

[Mr. ED]

Yes, I love junk too. Not to restore but to mix up with he other junk in my next project.
My favourite junk is metric though, can't care for imperial stuff , sorry

[Dave145]

If I've bought all of one or two "new" rc's so far that's about it. Otherwise, I buy all the cheap goldpans I can and combine them to make one or two good ones. As for the rest of my collection, my old Tamiya Mudblaster has been crossed with my Kyosho USA-1 monster truck quite a bit (too bad it still broke and went down with a crapped out tranny). I've even crossed a slash, a B2, a goldpan, a Tamiya Baja King and a Tamiya Mudblster together to create some form of a Traxxas E-Revo clone. That one kind of fell apart before blowing up (which was a relief)

[socal jared]

One mans imperial is another mans domestic

[Diggley]

[quote="Mr. ED"]Yes, I love junk too. Not to restore but to mix up with he other junk in my next project.



X2

I couldn't agree more...http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=12952

I think making something out of a bunch of nothing is a blast!

[vegasjetta]

To answer the thread title, YES I am happy with junk!

My brand new Traxxas Slash is fun and reliable, but unless it's broken and I am fixing it, it seems boring to me now...