Quarter Flash Arms......Anybody Have Them??

[Woobie]

Hey guys,

Just wondered if anybody has a set of arms made by Quarter Flash, for the RC10 way back when? I had one set, nip, which I traded to a friend in Australia. They were the most interesting things, being that the hinge pins were actually supported by ball bearings. They were quite pricey as well. I also have a couple motors made by this company, but they dont seem to be anything that great. And, should anybody desire these, I can put you in touch with the guy who has them, as he has yet to use them.

Scott

[scr8p]

i think hoopty has as set of them on one of his mip rc10's

[badhoopty]

woot! an opportunity to spam a pic!!!

mip legends w/quarter flash arms. you can kinda make out the bearings behind the c-clips.



pretty trick, but they dont make a bit of difference performance-wise...

i'm pretty sure the company just used ae produced arms and then drilled them out to accept the bearings. pretty nicely made, i figured they'd be a pain getting the hingpin all the way though but they were all dead on.

[MelvinsArmy]

For whatever reason, I can't see Hoopty's pic, but I have a set of reare arms that look just like the stock arms, but have BB's in the hinge pin holes. I put them up on ebay a while ago, but nobody went for them. I didn't know what they were. Wasn't Quarterflash mostly 1/4 scale drag and oval company?

[MelvinsArmy]

Okay, now after I posted I can see the pic. My computer likes to mess with me I guess. My arms are black.

[Woobie]

Very nice looking car Hoopty! They certainly made some crazy "hop-ups" back in the 80's. I love paging through old mags, and seeing the different products by companies that advertised for a year, and then were never heard from again. Two speed Optima gear boxes.......dual motor mounting plate for the RC10. You just never see that stuff, and you wonder if the owners of those companies have boxes of it stashed away, that will one day see the day of light through ebay.

Scott

[Eau Rouge]

I remember when those came out. It's amazing what people spent money on back then. I don't recall too many people using those on race cars, unless they were getting them for free.




The truth is, you can achieve 99.999% the same suspension performance, with no bearing maintenance, by using a .126" straight-flute reamer from McMaster-Carr for $9 and running a low speed hand drill through all of the suspension pivot holes. It's one of my favorite RC car tricks for building absolutely PERFECT free and smooth suspension with zero binding and no slop. All American hinge pins (Losi & Associated) are .125" pins, and most metric cars use 3mm pins (.119" reamer), so I carry both in my tool box. They are invaluable in car building. I do it on EVERY car I build, old or new.

You'd be surprised how much crap comes out of a suspension pin hole, and how perfectly a Dremel-polished pin slides into the arms.

Try it. Even a 25-year old car can be built to move like it's lubed by butter.

[Eau Rouge]

Oh yeah, and if you don't know, here's your second bestest tip of the day...


http://www.mcmaster.com











Try not to spend your entire last paycheck there.

[badhoopty]

theres another mcmaster style site that rocks. but i cant for the life of me remember what the heck its called... they deal more in material stock.

dammit, its gonna drive me crazy not knowing the name to that place... i used to order from it quite a bit when i was into the crawlers.