So I broke down and went out to Cooper Racing and Repair and purchased the Axial Wraith tonight – looking forward to some rock crawling with other RC Crawler enthusiasts here in Bend, OR this coming weekend. Watch for more photos. Here are a few pictures to see the beast I’m talking about: So far [...]
So I’ve had my Redcat Racing Earthquake 8E for almost a month now. Including my own stupidity for getting it wet and burning out the ESC here are the items I have HAD to replace on the vehicle: Replaced ESC with a HobbyKing XERUN 150A ESC Replaced connectors on batteries with deans connectors instead of [...]
I had ordered a replacement ESC(Electronic Speed Controller) for the one that I burned out while running on the beach (water + electronics => fail). I went with the HobbyWing XERUN 150A. When it came it, it had the deans connectors on it instead of the banana clips that the factory ESC had shipped with. [...]
Last weekend after Cascadia Ruby Conf I headed down to Depoe Bay for some time on the coast with my family. It was a great time. This post is about my experiences with my Earthquake 8E and how things went on the beach. So I got a two good runs in before managing to incapacitate [...]
After driving my Hotshot and breaking something on nearly every outing (27 year old plastic can be brittle). I decided I wanted to see what the current RC Cars are like. I wanted a vehicle I could bash, something that was fast and 4wd. After watching a bunch of videos on youtube I found the [...]
This is my first RC car video, I uploaded it to youtube. It features my vintage Tamiya Grass Hoper and Hotshot that I’ve had since my early teenage years. In June I got them out of storage and then at the first of the month I started making trips to D’s Hobbies to get missing [...]
