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Here's a little display I've mocked up to go in my glass cabinets (once the room is decorated )

Fairly cheap perspex display shelving & perspex stands.

I use a similar setup as winner_evo.
Use zippo lighter stands for the motors, pretty sure I paid around $25 AUD for 45 of them.

caesar wrote: ↑Tue Jun 01, 2021 8:17 pm I use a similar setup as winner_evo.
Use zippo lighter stands for the motors, pretty sure I paid around $25 AUD for 45 of them.

Yeah, that's exactly what mine are, I got 30 for £13.

How many wire strands are there under the folded tabs of the commutator? One of the tabs will have more than the others, but the others will at least tell you if it's a single wind, double, etc. Unfortunately no easy way to tell how many turns are on it.

Not sure about that one but sometimes they engrave the turn/wind on the can somewhere around the motor screw holes.

My lathe came with a stock 550, which is slower than a 540 silver can. Even then, it works best if I slow it down. I suspect that a cheap crawler motor would work well.

Back in the day, I believe that most people used 4 cell packs on their lathes as well.

Variable speed is nice. If you have a servo tester and spare esc, it makes it easy.
Just plug it into the tester's outlet port and setup the esc as usual. An older esc with adjustments is a little easier than push button models but none of them are hard.

Stock motor and 4 cell is what we used....

I believe they were all the same, although not 100% sure?

It appears Rick was last active here in 2013.

https://www.redrc.net/2007/06/rick-hohwart-leaves-peak-racing/

Still roughing it in, but u get the idea

Place holder

Here is another one of my clods.

New Era tube chassis
Jps aluminum wheels
Parma hemi motor
Speed Gem 15x2 motors
Super rooster esc
Proline tires
New Era aluminum front bumper
Blue piggyback aluminum threaded shocks
Driver w/helmet, seat and dash.
Custom airbrush by me

My RC12LW. Bought in 1993 when I was 16, never used then because there was not track for her, forsaken in parents' cellar when I stopped RC, she survived a flood before being rediscovered in my attic in 2021, which leads me to restart this hobby. Now, she's enjoying the local carpet track. Better la...

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