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New member, potential vendor, and RC10 fan!

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Greetings All! My name is Chris Cazan (Toyranosaur on the Boards,) and I've been a collector/builder/partsmaker for 20+ years. I do not own an RC10 buggy (!), but have a sweet pink ano'd OG GT, an original 10T, and a Beetle-ised T4 in my collection of about 90 vehicles. I joined a long time ago, and was inactive, but now a couple things have transpired to get me into your fine forum: One is, I am gonna get a mint RC10 Gold Tub eventually if it kills me (Can't really say I have a definitive RC collection with no RC10, now can I?) Another is, a chap named Doug Johnson said he posted here (Though I can't see it yet, being a 'Noob' here... :oops: ) about my making some parts: Having scanned around a bit, I think we may be able to help each other out, meaning the members here & my company. I own Rogue Element Components, a 1-man machine shop that does odd/vintage/collector parts for old RC's. My page at http://www.rogueelementcomponents.com explains how I do things, and I'm looking for a 'new' old RC to focus on doing desirable parts for. I'm thinking RC10? Anyway, just wanted to barge in & introduce myself and perhaps find out what you'd all like to see, and get a suggestion on where to post stuff etc. Forgive me if this is the wrong place, please feel free to move it/yell at me if necessary! Once this is figured out I'll give more info & take requests on bits, etc. Thanks for reading, and I hope we can all help each other enjoy our hobby even more! Cheers, Chris REC
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Welcome! :) You have good taste. Nice r/cs and I seriously love to use oil lamps. :D You just can't beat natural flame lighting to get the creative juices flowing. :mrgreen: Post up! You clearly have plenty of projects to post about. Get B/S/T access and then the real action can start(even though I never go there). Looks like you have plenty to offer. :D
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Chris welcome to the site. You and I have spoke previously at the Scale4x4 site. You may remember me from the picture below. No I never finshed them :oops: . I did finish the rear axle and it works great, but never got around to finishing the front. Anyway, good to see you again and I am sure your machining skills will be welcome here.

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Welcome Chris, good to see you signed up here. Can't wait to see what you come up for the RC10. BTW I got your nuts on my Jeep :shock:

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shodog wrote:Welcome Chris, good to see you signed up here. Can't wait to see what you come up for the RC10. BTW I got your nuts on my Jeep :shock:

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wow! id say we are being pretty open here huh! J/K
hows about wheel adapters for the 1/4 axle to the correct offset for the new 12mm hex rims
my spelling not so good! but i can DRIVE the wheels off anything!

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man that gt is sexay!

another series you may want to look at is the vintage trx cars like the fiero, sledge, hawk, trx1, trx3/tcp, ls, ls2, and srt

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Howdy Shodog and others! I may not remember everone off the top o'me head, but we'll get re-aquainted. I just got done spending most of the last 2 years doing Sand Scorcher bits for the most part, and am looking to start on another car- I have some wheel dimensions drawn for the RC10, and have been asked to do Technacraft-style wheels for 'em, which is doable indeed. I'm small, so don't need to make huge batches of stuff for it to be worthwhile: I do this for a living, not a hobby, and though my shop is in the garage I have a 100K Haas VF-3 vertical CNC mill shoehorned in there, so have a unique niche. Most 1-man garage outfits don't have this calibre of equipment, and bigger outfits ain't gonna do small runs of parts for 30-year-old toy cars, so I kinda own my little slice of R/C manufacturing.

Thanks for the kind welcome, especially after my ham-fisted intro! :lol: The way I see it, R/C guys are all about tinkering, modifying, and parts, so quality sellers should not be berated for offering same unless they're spamming outright but some boards freak nonetheless......

I guess I'll be eligible for the BST in 25 posts or so? I'll put up some pics of past projects/vehicles for showoff purposes, that should qualify me soon-ish, then we can discuss pieces & cars & such. I'll be looking to do some buying/swapping for a mint original RC10, probably a 6-gear Gold Tub, either NIB (Scary!) or a few parts at a time, so anyone with swappables get ready! :wink: I look forward to spending some of my limited time here for sure! Cheers, Chris REC

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welcome to the forum - nice intro ;)

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Hey there, welcome to the board! I would love to see what you can dream up to help me spend more money on stuff I probably don't need :lol:

Seriously though, loving the two beetle rcs you posted as I'm a big VW enthusiast too

Looking forward to hearing more on your future plans
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welcome chris. i am sporting a s.c.a.b. you made on my s2. i was hoping to see you make some more of them so i could have one on my durango prototype and my rc10's.

on rc10's a lot of us are using ab4 top shaft and slipper in our transmissions. and fitting a rpm rc10b4 gear cover is as simple as drilling one hole in the motor plate. if you still made the s.c.a.b. i know of a few vintage rc10s and 10t's that would be sporting them. :D
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Just came from you gallery, sweet stuff, and its all so diverse - from 1:10, to mini, to micro and bikes. Glad to have you on board, and I am sure you will fit right in here :D

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What's a s.c.a.b.?

Chris, sent you a pm with some links to posts that will get you thinking about where the demand for parts tends to fall among us crazy builders/tinkerers.

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I thought I was the Scab....hmm...

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jwscab wrote:I thought I was the Scab....hmm...
hmmm, i always thought you were a cab driver named jw. :lol:

anyhoo, subscribed to tyrano's newsletter, good looking stuff for sure.

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hahhah, yeah, you can read it that way...no, first 4 letters of my last name.

so what is the s.c.a.b.?

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