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sorry just wanted to know if it is worth cleaning or just use it. It looks like its probably been sitting for some time. If you want to run it you should probably do some basic maintenance before. That would be: New oil in the shocks Rebuild the transmission Other than that it needs some electronic...

Cool. That's what it looked like.

Nice work. I like that body.
Is that a holster for a revolver on the table in the last picture?

Thank you, found it. The build looks great. Inspiring; the black and blue also is used by most modern buggies out there. This would look good on any track or pit today.

This looks great. What is the name/number of the blue battery strap mounts you have there? They look perfect for bigger lipos that won't fit in the normal battery cup.

Can you give a few comments on your masking process? I assume you are using liquid mask?

About how many steps and layers are involved in the first body of the first post?

Wow, Thanks for this thread. The spreadsheet with the Dyno information is really helpful (I studied some german so the language is not problem 8) ). As mentioned before I have a 'G' and its really my favorite motor. it looks like its one of the fastest! Which dyno do you use? How do the green Sonics...

Last weekend I got time to check this out and make the change. It was the diff slipping. I opened up the diff and found that I was missing 4 carbide diff balls form the stealth transmission. I now remember I lost 1 or 2 many years ago an in order to keep it balanced I just took a few out, configurat...

Wow, nice collection of Reedy Sonics. Looks like I see a Sonic G in there, first time I have seen someone else with one.

That would be interesting if you could get nylon to flow at those temps :shock: It's much higher than that, IIRC it's ~450 for nylon, lower for styrene and slightly lower than styrene is ethylene. Sorry, I should have mentioned some units 250 - 290°C; which is about 480 - 550°F. I have been living ...

It seems a bit hard to buy small quantities of nylon resin pellets. I might have to use some doner parts. not trying to make fun of this but if you use a cheese grater you can take a junk nylon part and recycle the nylon instead of getting pellets. you have the correct nylon and color that way also...

To repair the hole, I have heard of people melting a plastic/nylon of the same type with a chemical- laquer thinner maybe? I have been researching this and injection molding in general. The process you described is called solvent molding and it's a form of plastic welding. http://en.wikipedia.org/w...

klavy69 wrote:

shorne wrote: But I am a bit of a purist so using original spec screws would be preferred.

a purist would replace the damaged threaded part .

Really? I would rather keep the original part. Maybe I'm not a purist? Maybe just cheap

To repair the hole, I have heard of people melting a plastic/nylon of the same type with a chemical- laquer thinner maybe? Yeah I was thinking that but not to sure where to get the right kind of plastic or what thinner would work best. I was thinking job weld might be to hard to properly mesh with ...

I have the same question but for cast metal. For metal the are a few resources on the web I found before asking here. Like here they mention filing the hole with welding then re drilling or using helicoils. http://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/16815/how-can-i-fix-a-stripped-hole-in-an-aluminum-pi...