Without having to read back through every post I was hoping those in the know could assist me on this long time project.
I have had a new built car for many years which I purchased from a fellow member here but also picked up a well used (and a...
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I use 3% too. You can find 6% at the chemist I believe, and from memory it's the same price as the 3%, so I just dilute 50/50 to make 3% as it goes further. If you use too strong of a solution it goes chalky and powdery. Many use UV light but the...
Hello everyone,
First i would like to apologize for my English ... but i'm french ! i will try do to my best to write a correct post here !!
I wanted to share with you my TRX-1 restoration. I must admit that this model was not so easy to find here...
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I just got the RPM front arms, but shimmed back like yours, I hit the chassis :( - but the bigger problem is the arms are longer than the stock TRX1 arms, making the front end too wide overall, almost a complete inch (20mm or so) wider than my other...
Here's another little treasure that I picked up in a lot of three cars....took it apart and washed the parts and put it back together, now I need to source a body and tires...I don't know yet, whether to keep it or sell it....we'll see....
I...
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Will do sir, thank you :D
I ran it with the new suspension and Shocks, and it’s silky smooth....hopefully I can convince my daughter to take a running video...
So I gotta great deal on 3 RCs this weekend. One of them was this.... The receiver has Traxxas on it, but Im not sure. The motor has XTM on the side. This thing is big next to my 1/10 RC10s.
So if anyone could let me know what it is that would be...
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clean it and see if you can get some nitro fumage going on 8)
My first hyper7 went to a friend of mine and he converted it to electric. Mamba max and all the schwag to go with it. Twisted axles, shelled bearings, tweeked just about everything as...
need to get the black widow TRX-1 ready for a vintage meet end-May 8)
I've always ran her in the grassy yard without a transmission cover... but that time it'll be on a dusty/rocky old-school track, hence the need to equip her fragile...
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Hi guys,
I wanted to give a quick update about this one.
I got my hands on a Rustler cover, but the bracket bit looked a bit odd, really.
I had an RPM B4 cover laying around... a quick blank assembly showed it could work, albeit with a smaller...
Just a mock-up of something brewing. Started with an Ultima kit and conversion plate from Jeff. It's just servo-taped in place and I cut some relief around the bulkhead area. Might opt for a TRX-3 direction with an adapted lower deck. Not sure if I...
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With some shocks mounted up on servo mounts and the motor plate and 17.5 HobbyWing it'll be utilizing. Start it out with a 78S/30P with the factory 2.14:1 final drive...yields a 1.21:1. Is that math right? Driven ÷ Drive, etc....
I noticed this chassis kit for Traxxas Rustlers, Stampedes, and Bandits on eBay. Basically, it turns them into an SRT! Anybody have this? If I had a Stampede, Rustler, or Bandit, I'd be all over this thing..
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I got one of the newer gray ones for $20 as a roller about a year ago. Threw in some 'tronics, and it's been a decent vehicle. I don't beat the snot out of my runners, but I don't baby them either - it's held up fine so far, nothing's broken. Good...
I remember clearly when I was a teen and some of the 10th scale nitro Traxxas came out to market - with that gorgeous champagne ano on the chassis... What exactly was the connection with Image Model , as the brand seemed to appear on...
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In any case, a BL-converted Nitro Hawk would be really cool :mrgreen:
what would be cool is if I could figure out how to post fricken pictures on this FPOSBB!
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Thanx to Jeff for posting these pix for me.
As I was looking for some white plastic parts for my CWF&Shine RC10, I remembered there was a funny front suspension on a TRX-1 of mine... So I dug it out of a pile of cars in dusty boxes...
Picked up a new toy today at the hobby shop. Just need to switch out the esc plug for a Deans. I was impressed with it just messing around in my front yard. I'm going to try an unglue the tires and replace the wheels with some Rc4wd Dick Cepek...
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Overall this has been a good truck. I’ve stripped the servo horn last time out but it’s all fixed and ready to go. The salt water at the beach has not been kind to the some of the metal parts but it gives it s nice rusty patina.
Every wonder what is supposed to be in the bag? Well, here ya go! If this is a resource you will use often, its probably best to download the folder as its large and the access can be slow (Klavy, dont bother- it will take a year! :lol:)
Just got this beauty in the mail. I'm not really a slash guy but wanted the motor esc. combo. I'm finding some steller tech tips to keep the esc mounted such as glue, zip-ties, and yep, even a coat hanger. Also has some 200mph mossy oak duct tape...
Hey pretty excited about my first vintage rc purchase! It's for sure seen some use but I like the edge, gives it character. That being said, I am missing a few odds and ends, haven't gotten it yet to see the full story but I can see I am missing a...
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Yeah they are a super cool buggy, never really looked into older Traxxas cars but scrolled by this on Ebay and couldn't pass it up. Hopefully soon I have an rc18 and a kyosho to keep it company!
Well, I bit the bullet, swiped the credit card for a 90's Factory drivers car that was never assembled. Now I don't build shelf buggies, I build race cars. It for sure won't be a box art, maybe not even a Trx3 body. I have plans in my mind, and it...
long time since I've posted a build thread... simply because I don't have much time for new builds these days. But I wanted to keep going... so I cheated. I'm just going to finish a superb build started by our very own Seabass. It's a TRX-1...
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Alright... all of my pix on photokickit are gone, it sucks...
fortunately my friend Georges at overrc had done a little column on this car a few months back, with some cool pix, on his website www.overrc.com.
Hi guys! New here and wanted to say hello. Im a racer from the late 80s and 90s from west Michigan and picked up a trx1 and Im currently working on getting it ready to run. It should be fun rolling around with my pop and his Rc10. Ill try to get...
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thanks guys! I hope I didn't offend mentioning the parts and ebay only did so because I know that finding some of the parts can be tricky! I did boil all my parts already and we did that even when they were new back in the day! My car is a bit of...
i had this display 1/8 traxxas funny car chassis for a very long time now. i sent mci a scan of these cobra jet decals i had in 1/12 scale and he redid em and added them to his site!!! i ordered em in 1/8 scale and are just killer. been wanting to...
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not much to see its one of those display chassis. i did add the front bumper, alum frt wheels, body mounts, wheelie bars, and fake fuel cell.
Just picked up this old Traxxas Hawk. The guy who sold it to me said he bought it around 1990 and played with it for a few days, got it covered with mud inside and out, and never got around to cleaning it. When I got it, it still had the original...
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When I look at it, all I can think about, is I'm 13 again with my checkered slip-on vans and my T&C Surf Designs shirt. Oh, the memories
I am fortunate to have collected enough parts and lots here and there for about a year and came across enough stuff to do a ground up resto with a few hop-ups. I thought shelfers were kinda bogus until all this stuff lined up. Bummer that...
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Glad to see this one come back up! It's as gorgeous as ever !
(and still have to find 1hr to work on my black/blue one which you've contributed to... :oops: )
I'm building a Bullet from the ground up and was lucky enough to source almost everything minus the transmission cases. I bought perhaps the roughest Bullet ever from eBay as a guide(im still itchy from cleaning it) for this and the cases are just...
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I definitely plan to keep this one going klavy69, at least for a few runs before the eventual shelf.
I have a few other projects going at the same time as well. My thinking is while restoring one and I come to a parts snag, I move it aside and and...
I am looking for front tires for my TRX-1 shelfer.
I do not need original tires just ones that will fit the front wheels.
Does anybody have any suggestions on where to find some? Similar to 4740
I found rear tires already.
Thanks
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Those Jconcepts look good. I may have to just try them out.
Haven't posted in a while. I traded a worn out Serpent for this worn out Monster Buggy a couple of years ago, been sitting in the closet ever since. No body, busted roll cage and a bag full of transmission parts and a carburetor.
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Straightened the pins as best I could, along with one of the front shock shafts that was pretty bad too.
I've had this Stampede for over a year, and though I've had many rc cars, from the low budget, to the high end racing stuff, I gotta say, this thing is super fun.....but I was never happy with the way the body looked on it, and the other options...
Flipping the rear end on a TRX-1 to mid motor configuration. Got a problem. Basically I have two degrees of toe out when I flip the arms to mount the shocks on the rear. Any suggestions? Adjustable toe setup? Different arms? Anything....
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Shouldn't be an issue with a 17.5t, not?
All my brushless moters are sensorless, but my driving is senseless anyway ;)
Hi guys. I'm trying to help my friend find some modern 2.2 wheels for his Bullet. Anyone know of something that will bolt on, or something that won't need a whole lot of parts swapped? He doesn't have a lot of money to spend, so I'd like to keep it...
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yep, alternately, you could swap out the spindles for rc10 spindles (with or without the longer axles) and run 2.2 rc10 or 2.2 B4 fronts.
I've been getting back into the hobby this summer after a 20 year hiatus when my daughter spotted my box of RC cars on a shelf in my woodshop. After a couple of father/daughter afternoons spent cleaning parts and assessing wear, I put...
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Exactly. The leading edge of the sidewalls is cut straight up with a 90-degree edge, while the trailing edge has a more typical front forward curved edge cut. If it was cut more like the one in the last TRX-1 box picture, with the front edge cut...
Not entirely ready yet, but I felt like sharing some pics of this project already.
I've been working on this inbetween other projects and am using parts I think I won't need for anything else anymore.
The goal is to have something cool for classic...
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Here're the promised pictures. Sorry for the delay.
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Those apache wheels have lots of offset. So I had to shorten the arms heavily.
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I had to bring the tower to the front as far as it could go, and even...
So I am having a revision here and am rebuilding this TRX-1. So far I've got the transmission rebuilt and I pressed on a steel top gear. It was a little notchy so I beveled the idler gear slightly and ran the trans in with a drill. It spins...
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Just messing around. I want to set this thing up for carpet off road . I was putting together my version of the TCP wide front configuration (the arms are impossible to find).
So the TRX-1 front can run short TRX-3 arms, regular long 1931s, and...
My son recently received a Traxxas Bandit for his birthday. It came with a battery and 12 volt car charger. However this doesn't help him when I am not around. I remember back in my days I had Hobbico charger but the plug on it to receive...
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CLM,
Thats some good feed back. The battery you linked is like my old ones, connector and all. His actually came with a 7 cell battery. Which probably doesn't make much difference in this case. I do have a soldering gun and do know how to solder,...
So yeah, I'm a moron and was in a rush and didn't do my research as I should have. I was planning on using the transmitter from my mrevo in my RC10 Worlds reissue. I didn't consult the compatibility guide and I bought a 6519 3 channel receiver....
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I have a unfounded hatred of Ebay for some reason. I really shouldn't as my brother gets stuff off there all the time and has had no issues. Hell, he bought a truck off it last week.
No doubt I can find a few on there but with the fact it's no...
I feel like I haven't been there for Todd lately so here is a quick restoration on a barn find Nitro Hawk. The image 12 is almost perfect, compression feels great. I had to rewind the pull start which is probably why it was parked years ago. Anyway,...
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Haha yeah got a new one to add. Do I break the seal? Hell yeah
You ever notive the Trx1 motor plate on the boxart...v'allways wanted to build that. That would be the Trx1.5
I have another vintage Traxxas TRX-1 project in the making. I have accumulated a majority of the parts for the build however I still need a bunch in order to complete the project. Looking for the help of my r/c piers to get this completed. I have an...
The new Traxxas 2739 hinge pins don't come with the correct size front inner hinge pins that connect the arms to body mount. They ones I need I believe are 38mm long. Anyone have an idea of where to get the correct size??? Thnx T
Finally got my TRX1 out of a french forum.
It was a racer back in the early nineties, in Paris area league. The previous owner bought it as a used car about 1994, and tried to make it run again at home lately (his video here):
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So here...
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the external o-ring is shown on the manual. I usually see this on old shocks where the seals are put by the outside: Traxxas, schumacher top cat / cougar 1, etc.
Nowadays, the rod end is facing the metal side of the body shock, not the sealing...
So I had enough parts lying around and I decided F it, I'm going to build another one. Here are some pics, I am not going to use everything in the obligatory money shot parts pile. But it will be pretty much built from new parts with some other...
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OK so I was thinking about taking this in a different direction. I picked up a 2628X off the one deal. Realized after it shipped that it is for use with the 2629X long wheel base chassis. So now I want to make a LWB TRX-3 with a Lethal Weapon and...
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