If you mean the anodize work he asked $300. I paid him 350 because it was too cheep in my opinion and wanted him coming out thinking it was worth his effort. And what a great effort it is. the pics don't do it justice. I don't know why people are so secretive with things like this. It is peoples time, it should cost some thing. I'm not sure how many hours went in for him to do this but I know it can't be a living wage at that price. The truth is I should have paid twice that if not more. I'm not rich I just Know what time is worth.
Edit: on that line, How much do people pay for custom paint jobs,parts,fab? It's all labor/skill. how does one price that? Plus this guy works with you. You're not just some job to him.
When I approached Don about the project I asked him if it made sense that i should prep/polish/deanodize the parts first. He said it was better for him to get the parts as they were so that he could better know how to treat them. Just saying when I do restoration I do the same thing." Do not touch it let me find out whats going on first." Any body that has done restoration will know this. It is best to start with a blank slate. And the blank slate is untouched. Unless the customer really knows what they are doing. Which is rare.
I have these and wondered if these kits would fit a custom build up im working on. Mostly rustler aftermarket parts i think,all the parts have no label except the traxxas bags in multiple boxes i just received 2 days ago.So you guys are more up on...
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Finally took some parts out the bag.Had to use two diff kits to make one complete,dang bags missing bunch small parts.I have a built tranny but its a used case,Still tryn find a new blue annoed GPM trans case and some kinda aluminum chassis to go...
This was one of the missing combo in my RC10 collection and I must say I dig it, though totally unpopular here in Europe! Purchased it a few weeks ago and finally found some spare time to shoot it before restoring it. It's in pretty good shape, with...
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They use mini mag adapters.
Are you sure? The hubs for the wheels I have are very close to Mini-Mag hubs but there's a small difference in the spacing of the screw holes (about half a screw width) and the bit of hub that rests inside the wheel's...
Found another rc10 for a good deal. Can't pass it up. :D
Another rc10ce? Still not so familiar with these...
I noticed the gear cover on my other rc10 didn't have the black round piece on it.
Any additional info on this would be great!
Amazing how things tend to snowball. I started to build a Kinwald Worlds replica from a re-release kit, gathered a few vintage parts, cut the chassis, then it was pointed out that the original didn't have a machined tub. Now I had to source one of...
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Hey guys, sorry for the late reply. I think I cut about a 1/4 off the sides. Weight loss, negligible. It looks cool, and the body doesn't rub on the edges as much.
I ended up drilling and tapping some 4-40 nuts. I'll post up some pics when I get...
Hello...my name is Adam,
I recently built my 1st Kyosho kit, a re-re Turbo Scorpion and was thoroughly impressed. I do have an original Javelin that I bought a decade ago, disassembled it and reassembled it from scratch...it is now a shelf-queen,...
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Overpowered is not a word in my dictionary..... :mrgreen:
JT, I think that running an RC buggy with a 5700kV motor would be like running your kart with this motor.
drag motor.jpg
The results would be the same: plenty of backflips and broken...
so I'm finally getting my build together. a majority of parts are put together so far. Its just a test fit for the moment until I decide how I want to have this all anodized. Most of the parts I've deanodized and polished up to a mirror finish....
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I'd call it The Tin Ten . :mrgreen:
Beautiful work!
Hi I'm from Sweden and I build my first turbo scorpion 84. Now I have buy two off the 2014 vintage edition. I gone have one for driving and one to look at :shock: so I bil looking for alloy rims 2.2 and I faind many nice ones but the problem is that...
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Have You checked Pargu store ?
Right now his shop seems to be out of order, but he would have the wheels for Your builds.
A little something new for the venerable SB cars! I am doing an all-Alloy upgrade build on my Scorcher, using my pieces that have been done (But are no longer available) and on this one I took a hard look at wheels. I dawned on me that all previous...