rcLazy.com T-Shirts
A photo of the back of a rcLazy team member appeared on the SLCC website, from the Aldershot meeting. I can’t tell who it is though!
The t-shirt looks good! I’ve got a few more on the way, let me know if you’d like one – you gotta wear it trackside though, and you’ve not got to try too hard!
rcLazy.com Stickers
I just printed up some monochrome stickers of various sizes on transparent laser sheets, they’re not bad, better than I expected. Here they are on my mini and touring car.
rcLazy.com stickers
If you’d like to put a sticker or two on your car let me know.
(I’ve also got T-shirts and caps on the way.)
Video: SLCC Round 1 Aldershot 17.5 A Final Leg 2
(Watch in High-Definition, click the little HD button above and then go fullscreen.)
I’m the blue and white car on grid point 6, I think I came in 5th. That big moment at the chicane didn’t really help!
Commentator is Nick Adams from Demon Power Products.
SLCC Round 1: Aldershot
Today saw the 1st round of the Southern League Clubman’s Cup at Aldershot.
I was feeling particularly lazy, so I drove up this morning and did a handful of laps in practice. The car was okay, not enough turn in, and a bit twitchy.
The recommendations in the pits from Saturday’s practice was to shorten all the top links, to flatten the car out, and make it more stable. So I tried that, and also removed the front anti-dive.
Round 1 was a bit lairy, really twitchy, but I realised I’d not reset droop, and my diff was slipping. I corrected droop, changed ackerman, but forgot to tighten diff for Round 2.
I got it together in Round 3, the car was stable, decent turn in, speed was okay. I put in a reasonable run, about 10 seconds off TQ, so qualified 6th.
Finals went okay, a 4-into-1-chicane incident left me on my roof, entirely my fault I think – I was a little overexuberant! 2nd final was cleaner.
The racing was great fun though, the cars were so even on pace and setup, so it was all down to driving, nice lines and racecraft. Very enjoyable.
The rest of the rcLazy team had fun, they didn’t have much luck in the finals including letting the magic smoke out of a 10.5 with a nice big burning smell.
A great day out, it flew by.
Much More Magic Commu Polisher
Shared by simon
I use 540 motors all the time for Tamiya Mini racing, and this looks great! I’m not sure if it’ll fit in the slots of my older 540s though – the slot holes are smaller.I gotta have one, just for tricks.
Much More continues its quest to clean the World’s comms with the release of their Magic Commu Polisher, which is a too that cleans and polishes the dirty commutator of 540 Mabuchi and Tamiya Sport tuned motors quickly. This item is a Much More exclusive that allows you work on non rebuildable motors. It works by placing the commu polisher into the motor’s airhole, press the polishers button down and rotate the shaft using the aluminium mounted on the main shaft.
Source: Much More [much-more.co.kr]
Original Article at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RedRc/~3/RCHJyF96tZM/
eBay Lazy
I shop on eBay a LOT for my rc stuff. I thought I’d put a bunch of pages together on rcLazy of eBay search listings for common rc brands.
Find it on the top menu under eBay Lazy.
Let me know if you find it interesting, useful, pointless or awful! Comment below.
Neo 09 – 1/8th Off Road at Harper Adams
This weekend sees 200ish drivers from all over the world descend on Harper Adams University College to play with smelly noisy toy cars in a big dirty shed, commonly called ‘the Neo’.
Some of the names running aren’t the usual 1/8th off-road boys, there’s all sorts of people in there. For Neo 09 there’s also 2 heats of 1/8th electric which are proving quicker per lap than the noisy nitro. (I’m not a nitro boy, electric is the future, bring it on!)
Oople’s coverage is as usual immense.
(And there’s already been some fisticuffs!)
A Wooden Box?
I’ve just bought a Trinity Duo brushless motor.
The box it comes in is very curious though, check it out, it’s a wooden box!
What’s all that about? Sure it’s nice and pretty, but it’s hardly high-tech and sexy is it? I reckon that’s the only real bit of wood on a racer’s pit table?
Comments please!
Differential Drama Day
The diff on my Tamiya TRF415-msxx was a bit gritty today whilst racing, so I swapped it out after race 2 today. I put in a unknown 2nd hand diff I’d picked up, it felt okay, so went with it.
I cleaned and rebuilt the other diff, and it felt okay, so put it back in the car, but a run later and it was very notchy again, so the spare diff went back in Unfortunately, the spare diff managed to loosen itself, the nyloc nut was worn.
So I fiddled with the other diff some more, and got it smooth again, and back in it went.
Yes, you read all that correctly, I swapped diffs after every run. And in the last run, the diff failed again, notchy once more.
This evening once I got home, and messed about with all the diff parts I’ve got, and ended up chucking out 2 sets of ceramic balls (notchy, flat spots I guess), 3 pairs of plates (both sides pitted and used), 2 nyloc nuts.
I was left with a complete diff with ceramic balls and thrust, and a good enough nyloc, and it’s very nice now.
Spares didn’t quite go to a spare diff, I was a nyloc nut short of making up a spare steel ball / steel thrust diff.
I’ve ordered up some spares: a JAAD ceramic thrust, some EDIT ceramic balls, some Tamiya plates, some HPI nyloc nuts, some Tamiya sticky covers. ie Enough to make a spare ceramic diff and some other spares left over. That should get me through a good few months I think.
(And I won’t even talk about the front driveshafts… or the end result…)
KO Servo Equals Quick!
I installed a KO servo into the Tamiya M03 Mini recently, and tonight was it’s first race meeting.
It performed very well, it was very quick, and the car responded so much better, and more accurately than the cheapy Tower Pro servo I had in there before.
In the chicanes I could get it round so much quicker, and had a lot more confidence to get the apexes tight.
The end result was I was more on the pace than I have been before I think, I was much closer to the leaders, if I didn’t crash I would give them a decent run I think.
I’d never thought I really needed a high-end servo in a mini before, but now I’ve tried it I’ll not look back.
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