Really sorry to hear that, @Deerhurst . Had a falling out with my main crawling bud a couple years ago. Diminished my enthusiasm but I've forged on with the hobby... still therapeutic. Sorry again.
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ROLL CALL FOR THE OLD HEADS
- Thread starter gsrcivic
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He was the only person I knew that loved RC crawlers as much as I do. Nobody to crawl with as much as I want to crawl. The local group turn into high school cheerleader drama so we split off and just did our own thing. I now have 5 crawlers! My Hilift, an Ascender with a 3D printed body, an old WPL C-14 and just got a pair of SCX24s for the wife and I to try to suck her into the hobby! Ive had the SCX24 for a week and the resin printer is making a prototype body right already!
Good people make the hobby so much more enjoyable.
@Deerhurst - Very true about the good folks. My bud was as passionate as I was... not just about hitting the trails and rocks but with wrenching and all that. He and I would trouble shoot and innovate and offer relative input whenever either of us hit a wall with a mod, upgrade, fabrication, etc. Shared the interest of full-size Jeep trailing/ crawling also. He was a good dude with good ideas and solutions. My wife?... not at all the same lol. We've been out before but when I run RC's I wanna get dirty if necessary. I don't mind the spider webs and mud but she's ready to call it quits if she encounters any of that. I love her dearly but it's not at all the same cause she's just not my best bud. Hell... he knows things about me that my wife will never know lol.
Like you, I've gone out trailing with a few other people. They liked it okay but none have been very enthusiastic.
Like you, I've gone out trailing with a few other people. They liked it okay but none have been very enthusiastic.
My buddy was a coworker and fellow mech, electrical, hardware engineer, machinist and wrote most of the code for microcontrollers we used. Absolutely brilliant dude. We used to go wheel our pickups too. The really sad part is he was just starting to get his life together, getting the house paid off, getting his debt gone, first new vehicle in his life, could actually afford to do things he enjoyed.
My wife enjoyed the little SCX24. We are currently fostering a couple puppies and one was terrified while the other was trying to challenge the crawler and act like he wasn't scared. She played with him with the crawler for at least an hour in the living room. She also enjoyed the tiny start to a crawler course I put together last night. Really looking forward to decent weather so we can go down to the rocks by the river. My buddy and I used to spend hours crawling down there then grab a spare truck when the first went dead!
I'll probably try the local group again as it's been a few years.
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