Thread is back from the dead!
Shamefully my first RC10 here has been living in a box since I pulled it out of storage...without so much as a wipe down. I've finally taken pity on it, and decided to bring it back to it's former glory.
Here's some photos of the journey so far
Cliff Lett inspired steering modifications! It appears that the linkage has cracked, but I ordered a replacement (re-release worlds steering linkage). Also notice hack saw job on the nose plate. 15 year old me didn't have a lot of patience!
25 year old vintage dirt... who wants some?
Gave my 25 year old NI-CD batteries a charge... nothing blew up, and voltage looks good. I'm going to give them a run! 1400SCR are still the best. See first pic in this post!
Said butchered nose plate. 15 year old me sucked at cutting metal.
All disassembled and given a bath.
Cleaned up the hack saw butchery with a flat file. Looking better!
Transmission looks great, I bought some new bearings but other than that it's just getting a clean with some new lube where necessary
I put new wires in my T4 back in the day...Buds Racing Products!
Not the worst soldering job I've done... not bad 15 year old me.
As a bonus, I found this among the parts in the box. I was pretty serious about a Cliff Lett replica back in the day.
For the life of me I can't remember if the Novak T4 was a 3 or 4 wire to begin with. I think it was 4, but looking at where it is soldered I can't see a 4th hole, maybe it will be obvious when I remove the existing wires. I'd like to go back to the original wires that were in there as the join on the orange wires is pretty sketchy. I'm going to try to source some good original style wire, does anyone know where to get it?
Thanks for looking. I'm really exciting about cleaning this up. I loved (well still love) this car... it's special to me and I can't wait to have it all put back together.