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Long story short, I wanted one of these as a kid but but couldn't afford it. Things are little different 20 some years later. I've always been intriqued with restorations of any sort, whether it be classic cars, fishing reels, firearms, and now RC cars. I recently bought an RC10T Team Truck 7035, and what I beleive is 7011 which is intended to be the donor car.

Here's the before pics.

The Team truck
Stay tuned!
Quik

The Donor car

Quik

To answer your next question, unless it's just my work computer.
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=16337

Now we're cookin' with butter! Great looking start!

[quote="THEYTOOKMYTHUMB"]To answer your next question, unless it's just my work computer.
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=16337[/quote

Fixed!

Made some weekend progress.

I dissasembled the trucks and cleaned all the parts. I used the hydrogen peroxide method to whiten all the nylon. Very satisfied with the results. I'll be using the best of the parts from both for the Team Truck and I'm not quite sure what I'll do with the parts car. Maybe build is as stock, or use RPM parts and install a brushless system, not sure yet.

Here is a pic of the clean parts. I used an ultrasonic cleaner and an oil based solution to clean all of the metal parts. Haven't started on the transmission yet. This is a before pic of all the rusty screws. I soaked them all in a rust remover. After rust removal most of the blackening was also removed so I used a gunmetal blueing solution to re-blacken them. I think it's pretty close to an original looking finish on the hardware. The blackening didn't take very well on the turnbukles or the universals. I'm thinking it's because they are made of a different alloy. I'll try again later this week, or figure out a different solution. I'm realy going for a true restoration using as many original parts as I can.

Stay tuned,
Quik

Here's a photos of the pan before stripping and blasting.
After Stripping, blasting, filling and sanding.
My parts orders should be in some time this week. Hopefully I'll be able to spray the pans and the rest of the parts before they come in.

Quik

Looks like the hard part is behind you. For me cleaning takes the longest time of the restorations. Having all those clean parts and fresh chassis would send me into an assembly frenzy.

Which oil-based solution did you use for the ultrasonic cleaner? I hate the water-based stuff because it always rusts the steel parts afterwards. Thanks!

vintage AE wrote:Looks like the hard part is behind you. For me cleaning takes the longest time of the restorations. Having all those clean parts and fresh chassis would send me into an assembly frenzy.

For me, the worst part is painting. I do my painting in the garage and I HATE dust!

Quik

adam lancia wrote:Which oil-based solution did you use for the ultrasonic cleaner? I hate the water-based stuff because it always rusts the steel parts afterwards. Thanks!

In equal parts, 1 part Automatic transmission fluid, 1 part mineral spirits, 1 part kersene or K1. Optionally you can add 1 part acetone, but use at your own risk with plastic parts. It's call Ed's Red solution, I'm not the creator of it. You can google it, it's been around for a long time, and there are numerous substitutions.

Quik

Nice work. Are you painting or powder coating the chassis? It looks like it will turn out really nice.

I'll be using a paint on finish called CeraKote. It's a bake on firearms finish that is very tough, goes on very thin, and maintains some flexability. It's simalar to ceramic based header coating used in the racing industry.

Does anyone know what the original shocks were that came with the team truck? It looks like it came with Gold on the tiny box pic, but wanted to be sure.

thanks,
Quik

Thanks Quik, luckily for me my uncles run an automotive shop, all of those things readily on hand

If you had an original (read: early) team truck it came with hard coated grey shocks. The sport truck (bushings) came with gold shocks. HTH

I'm sorry, I meant to ask what color shock springs? Both of the trucks I have came with the grey hard coated shock bodies.

Quik