Scale RC/ RC crawlers

[roadstr6]

Nathan got an Axial Yeti for Christmas. He kept blowing the tires off the rims. Apparently the beads were cut a little too thin on the factory tires. I have re-seated them at least half a dozen times. Fed up, I asked him if he wanted to just get some new tires. Here's what we ended up with: Proline Super Swamper SX in G8 (soft) compound. They went on nice and look like quality pieces. Check out the insane scale detail. They look just like the real deal!

 

[NCFJ]

Dave, you realize it wont be long before you are giving up one of your cruisers to Nathan, right I got my first car at age 9. It was Hilman Minx convertible. My Mom and grandmother had a fit when I would back it out of the garage and drive it across our property to the 12 acre field behind the house. Dad fixed it up and got it on the road and drove it to work once in a while and around town etc. Ours was lefft hand drive

 

[roadstr6]

Neat car, Stan! That was one reason I bought the 60. I'd love to put him in that as his first car. We will see. He wants a 45. That may be a tough order to fill...

 

[NCFJ]

How full is his piggy bank? Maybe he can make payments to Jason starting now

 

[roadstr6]

I think these RC tires just set his piggy bank back to square. Jason, if you ever decide to sell, let us know. Nathan has been metal detecting and panning for gold lately. You never know when he might hit the mother lode!

 

[little_joe]

Those Proline tires work awesome on scalers/rocks, the guys I run with who use them pull crazy lines. However, I don't know that they'll work well or last on the Yeti if you're set up to run it at speed.

 

[roadstr6]

It's decently fast. Out of the box RTR version. Running 2S Lipo. We'll see how it does. I've read nothing but positive feedback for these tires even on the Yeti. I'd much rather wear a set out prematurely than to have to deal with constantly losing beads and having tires fling off! That is the case with the stockers.

 

[erymer]

Dave I just want that Newcastle sign.

 

[roadstr6]

Swampers were thoroughly tested this evening and passed with flying colors! They work great on the Yeti. I drained the shock oil and replaced with 40 wt to soften the hard landings a bit. Overall, happy with my work.

 

[Rice]

1:10 Scale Toyota Landcruiser Crawler!

 

[lt1fire]

that's a pretty good price. They are double that on ebay for painted ones

 

[jfz80]

He wont take $40

 

[roadstr6]

Took Nathan and a friend of his to the RC track yesterday. Nathan's ExoTerra is a sweet track machine. I spent most of the day wrenching on the other kid's Traxxas...blown shocks mostly. Nathan was launching 6 foot jumps and all I had to do with his was change battery packs.

 

[lumbee1]

Just thought I would ask but does anyone have an older RC crawler in the $150 range that they are looking to offload? My son's birthday is coming up and he's not ready for a $350 Axial monster. He has a Amazon piece-O-sh!t now but the steering is broken and he wants Daddy to fix it for him. My fix is to toss it and get him a real RC crawler.

 

[roadstr6]

I'll see if either of the kids want to sell one of theirs. I think we have five. Ava had mentioned selling her Axial SCX10 Trail Honcho. If she okays it, I will bring it to LR and we can talk. I'd put it closer to the $200 range though. We do have the stock cab for it too if pink is not your cup-o-tea.

 

[stevezero]

Note to self....stick with sailboats, stick with sailboats....do not go back into terrain based vehicles.

 

[lumbee1]

I'll see if either of the kids want to sell one of theirs. I think we have five. Ava had mentioned selling her Axial SCX10 Trail Honcho. If she okays it, I will bring it to LR and we can talk. I'd put it closer to the $200 range though. We do have the stock cab for it too if pink is not your cup-o-tea.
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We can talk at LR.

 

[roadstr6]

Well, Ava has changed her mind about selling the SCX-10. Nathan may have something to sell. If so, we will bring it.

 

[Rice]

Man, I really do want to get into (No, Rice, NO!) the R/C scene. Can't cost that much, right?

 

[NCFJ]

I was into racing RC cars back in the 80s. Went from them into RC helis. The helis were cheaper than the cost to race competitively. Keeping up with batteries, speed controllers and replacing worn tires was the bulk of the cost. They I really got into helis and the cost was huge, so I went into the RC heli business.