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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

Phin wrote:

Coelacanth wrote:... 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.

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

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

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

Is there a brand name on the amp?

esaresky75 wrote: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.

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

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