Here's some electronics from the old neighborhood. I got the Magnum Jr. with my first decent rc - a Tamiya Hornet. After realizing my buddy had the same frequency, my Jr.'s crystal quickly became replaceable when my dad popped the the little plate off the back. After my Hornet met its untimely end (thanks to a timing advance, my hand made 9.6V battery pack - what could happen? - and a more than willing curb), my parents bought me a Tamiya Monster Beetle. Racing, as it turns out, was always in my blood, so a couple weeks later I turned it into a Frog. The Novak gear came in the late 80's as I tried to lighten up the Frog to compete with my buddy's RC10. The Revolution Insane motor led to my first experience with glued tires. Imagine my dad's face when his 14 year old son emerges from the basement with a 'toy' that could peal the tires right off the rims at will. The rest of the motors and gear I acquired later when I picked up my current RC10, about 1994ish.
I love those old Magnum Juniors...the quality is apparent, and superior to the modern offerings, which just have a cheap look to them compared to the JR's. I have 4 of those and they all work great!
agreed. the only complaint i had as a kid was the crystal was never replaceable - that is until i popped that little crystal cover off. i have a newer unit for my MGT 4.6 - total POS, if you ask me (the controller, not the MGT). the JR has a much higher quality feel.
Now there's some memories...I had a Futaba Mag Jr for 20 years, and it still worked like a champ when I sold it with an Ofna a few years ago. I also had that same Protech charger awhile back.
been thinking about getting some of my old stuff brought more up to date.
heres some pics there not pretty.
this oneis the only runner.
and my buggy.
spare buggy missing trans and im sure more.
this is my other truck that i thought...
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it has some strange setup on the rear check it out.
is it even posible to keep up with a tmax.
theres a guy i work with he's all nitro and tmax.id like to at least be able to keep up with him.
welcome to the board 68sportcoup. That truck...
First a little about me. I have been racing r/c cars for about 16 years. I started driving r/c cars at about 6 y/o, some of my ealiest memories are driving figure 8's with my dads old Tamiya Rough Rider. When I was 8 y/o, my dad got me a Kyosho...
I found a complete rolling chassis still in the shipping box in my closet today that I had purchased to use parts from another roller to make one good one. This is about a month after I puchased a chassis for the other roller fogetting I had...
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I actually had something like that recently. I was looking through my old associated track bag for turbo optima parts. Then I ran across a few old reedy motors, and a Hydra drive... then I took some pictures to show friends what I found. Then I...
OK, first question is what do I have? :roll: Then where do I go from here :lol: . New to the whole vintage thing here. Have had the tub rc10gts but never really gotten into anything electric til last winter on another board where I kinda got hooked....
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Hey Todd, Welcome to this forum. We're just following each other around! You have some pretty nice rc10's there, if it were me I would make them into runners and dye the dyed parts black. But thats mee, I don't like it when parts are dyed wierd...
Guy's i think this is a lazer alpha but not sure,also what is the sealed gold can kyosho motor,it has two little brown 223 capacitors,no sticker an just has kyosho japan stamped in the top end...Thanks
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Yup...even the Platinum shocks are poop (performance-wise, anyway). :mrgreen:
Nope - in capable hands the platinums perform really well - If You have a set, try lending it out ;-)
I have a set, I can't even sell it. Well, not on here, anyway....
Well, as I've said before, we recently bought a house so the RC funds have been low, but I've managed to hook up a few eba finds for RC10s and look forward to doin some restores. Just got a SS5800 and an auction for an RC10 graphite and a black...
I´ve got some Delta spareparts that needs to be id:d
some screws that have an unusual head needs a flat screwdriver with a rounded tip ?
Anybody know to which model they belong.
Sorry about the small picture.
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And my Delta...
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Are those rod ends rare? I seem to have a couple packets of those, but with SG header cards..