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Just a little encouragement to those, like me, that keep cluttered work spaces. I wish I had before pics, but between my 2x5' workbench, and a fold out 2.5x6' table, for the past couple of weeks I have had ~25sq.ft. of workspace, with only about 2' useable at any given time. :roll: With the addition...

Powder coated the main frame pieces today. More pitting on the parts than I was hoping, and the PC job is DIY, but overall it came out very acceptable. My PC guy is a bit of a d1ck, but he works for peanuts. :mrgreen: TBH, the original paint looked as though there was zero prep, and no primer applie...

Great post day! But I have to gripe a little. :? Good ol' USPS was supposed to deliver half of this, this past Thursday, when the wife was at the beach; and the other half was supposed to show up this coming Tuesday, when the wife would be at work. BUT NO! Both show up an hour after she gets home fr...

Complete coincidence. This pops up the same day I get my runner: https://www.ebay.com/itm/194317009256 This is NIB, and I will have more than that in getting this runner running. But, now I won't feel bad for wrecking this one! :mrgreen: I feel like there is a chance that I ended up scoring more th...

Made some pretty good progress on the bike the last couple of days, and then a major screw up. :( Off the bat, this is my first try at doing a restore / refresh semi-correctly. I am a runner guy; I pull parts off and clean them, repair them, or replace them (whichever is cheapest and quickest), and ...

I told myself when I started this build that this was 1979 vehicle, I would build it with old school parts, nothing printed .................................. I failed! :mrgreen: I will probably end up with two printed parts on this rig, and am still trying to figure out the second one. The first on...

Progress as of 9-8-2021: Outside of some wiring, I am caught up to waiting on parts again (sound familiar?). Rear tire and chain are ready to go on, but weirdest thing about motorcycles, they are very unstable sitting still, so it is easier to leave it off until the end for ease of working on it. Fr...

The red and yellow one is a Tyco.

Shared link to a clean Kyosho / Kraft / Graupner Eleck Rider instruction manual. When I got mine, the only full digital manual was for purchase only, and was not that great of quality.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiFH8UVGA_Rvgetx7UftO3psI46sIg?e=bcO4PU

While waiting on the body, I started getting into the decals needed. You would think H-D stuff is generic, and always has been for 100 years, but no, there are loads of different styles / fonts/ logos/ cursive / etc. I think it may be so generic that no one notices what is real and fake at this poin...

I have thought about finding a broken radioshack car, gutting it and fitting it with hobby grade electronics. Problem there is you still have toy grade suspension, steering, gearbox, well, everything really. I have always been a big fan of hard plastic bodies on cars. I did crawling for about 10 ye...

USPS surprised me today and brought me suspension parts early. :shock: She is pretty much mechanically done at this point. Next up is to install MSC, shorten servo wires, and wire her up. Then I can go ahead and get the wheels on. Body, crash guards, and rider should be here tomorrow. I might actual...

Quiet Saturday morning around the house ...............

juicedcoupe wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 5:01 pm

morrisey0 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:42 pm Is that steering servo glued down?

Probably Shoe Goo.

I figured as much. I was trying to ................ well nevermind.

Finally had a nice Sunday to get out on the boat and take our somewhat usual trip up the historic James River to Richmond. The Enon bridge south of Richmond: james river 091221 a.jpg Jimmy Dean's House. I like to refer to him as "the sausage king of Richmond.": james river 091221 b.jpg The...