dezfan
I wanna be Dave
So a neighborhood kid saw me testing one of my rigs in the alley one day. He was riding his bike and stopped to watch me for a few minutes asking a million questions.
After that it seems every time my garage door was open, I had a visitor.
He’s a good kid, he’s been the only one in 10 years that I can remember to actually come knock on my door and ask if I had any work so that he could earn one money to fix his go-cart.
Finally seen him and his Mom out walking in the neighborhood and chatted for a bit. Come to find out, his parents are split up, Mom works, and money is tight.
She mentioned that her son had been talking about the cool RC truck and how much he wanted one. She asked what they cost and groaned when I told her what the price range was.
I wanted to help the little guy out, but I too am on a pretty tight budget these days, but I figured I could squeeze some money out of my hobby budget.
I started looking through my spare parts and came up with tires, wheels, foams, battery, and a Tx/Rx.
Not much, but a start.
I started looking for a used roller. Nothing fancy, just something to start with when I came across the Austar Crawler sliding chassis (also available as s roller for $20.00 more) on e-bay for $92.99 shipped!
I hesitated, tried to hold out for a cheap SCX10, but after watching a few videos of the Austsr(also sold as an Injora), I ordered it.
Box arrived yesterday.
I was pleased to see it arrived intact with no damage(others had reported damage to their box during shipping) and seemed to be fairly well packaged.
10 days from China to my front door and the USPS is responsible for one of those days. Not bad at all.
So this will be the build thread for Project Lo-Do (low dough)!
I’m going to surprise my new Crawling buddy with it.
After opening the box, this is what I was greeted with my initial impression is pretty good.
After a few minutes I had the included bumper installed along with the pins and Hexs.
Had to throw the tires (4th tire is inbound do to the generosity of a fellow RCC member) on just to see what it looked like.
About as far as I got last night and I was traveling all day today.
Going to tear into it tomorrow, check to make sure everything is tightened, oiled, greased, and shimmed correctly. I’ll post my findings.
Ordered the least expensive body(that I thought still looked good on a Crawler)on eBay today.
Still need to get an ESC (may have a line on one from a local).
And I need to order a servo (provably order one of those Power HD 20KG Amazon units for under $20.00)
More to come...
After that it seems every time my garage door was open, I had a visitor.
He’s a good kid, he’s been the only one in 10 years that I can remember to actually come knock on my door and ask if I had any work so that he could earn one money to fix his go-cart.
Finally seen him and his Mom out walking in the neighborhood and chatted for a bit. Come to find out, his parents are split up, Mom works, and money is tight.
She mentioned that her son had been talking about the cool RC truck and how much he wanted one. She asked what they cost and groaned when I told her what the price range was.
I wanted to help the little guy out, but I too am on a pretty tight budget these days, but I figured I could squeeze some money out of my hobby budget.
I started looking through my spare parts and came up with tires, wheels, foams, battery, and a Tx/Rx.
Not much, but a start.
I started looking for a used roller. Nothing fancy, just something to start with when I came across the Austar Crawler sliding chassis (also available as s roller for $20.00 more) on e-bay for $92.99 shipped!
I hesitated, tried to hold out for a cheap SCX10, but after watching a few videos of the Austsr(also sold as an Injora), I ordered it.
Box arrived yesterday.
I was pleased to see it arrived intact with no damage(others had reported damage to their box during shipping) and seemed to be fairly well packaged.
10 days from China to my front door and the USPS is responsible for one of those days. Not bad at all.
So this will be the build thread for Project Lo-Do (low dough)!
I’m going to surprise my new Crawling buddy with it.
After opening the box, this is what I was greeted with my initial impression is pretty good.
After a few minutes I had the included bumper installed along with the pins and Hexs.
Had to throw the tires (4th tire is inbound do to the generosity of a fellow RCC member) on just to see what it looked like.
About as far as I got last night and I was traveling all day today.
Going to tear into it tomorrow, check to make sure everything is tightened, oiled, greased, and shimmed correctly. I’ll post my findings.
Ordered the least expensive body(that I thought still looked good on a Crawler)on eBay today.
Still need to get an ESC (may have a line on one from a local).
And I need to order a servo (provably order one of those Power HD 20KG Amazon units for under $20.00)
More to come...
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