Did Hot Trick actually get something right?

[GoMachV]

Funny you bring up Orton, I almost said "this charger was so hideous that even Tekin wouldn't copy it" haha

All kidding aside, I know chargers of the day were basic and I'll agree it probably worked fine, but his schpeal sure sounded like it was a space shuttle not a paper airplane

[Coelacanth]

... Like the way hinge pins were mounted on their control arms, with a bloody screw & washer. All they had to do was drill 3mm holes in the things and use e-clips to hold them in, for Pete's sake.

Can't drill a 3mm diameter hole in a 2mm thick arm. What you could do, if you really want a captured hinge pin, is get two sets of Hot Trick arms and screw them together to make a thicker, heavier arm.

Or they could've simply machined the ends thicker. But that's what I mean, Hot Trick stuff always cuts corners in the most illogical ways. It usually ends up looking good, but falling short functionally or structurally.

[marlo]

I like the way you intro'd this thread Jeff, good stuff

[harold996tt]

Very funny post. Thanks very much for making me smile.

[Lowgear]

I'm pretty sure that every part to that Hot Trick charger came from the RadioShack of the day.

[esaresky75]

Is there a brand name on the amp?

[Asso_man!]

Is there a brand name on the amp?

Looks like a Proton Corp car amplifier from the early nineties. I think they could have used a bigger case for that, or how to sell you something bulky when it could be the size of a match box.

[jcwrks]

I'd never seen one of their binder manuals before. Did anyone that was ever competitive with an RC10 actually use Hot Trick parts?

[Dadio]

He he that's funny but actually more advanced than what I was using bitd , my friend had a Tamiya fast charger , the one with the 15min clockwork timer that plugged into the cigarette lighter in a car , I checked it's resistance and bought some resistive wire , measured out the length that gave the same resistance , made spools that kept the wire separated then put then in a ventilated plastic box with a switch it was really crude but as an 11 year old it was in my price range and it worked as well as the Tamiya one , I just had to set a countdown timer on my Casio digital watch to tell me when to switch it off
Maybe Hot Trick would have given me a job