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No, no offense, it was my attempt at humor, I admit I might have been being an ass. I just don't understand how a whole community can be so "ok" with paying good money for mediocre equipment. As long as people just roll over and like it, the manufactures are just gonna keep boxing up cheaper and cheaper crap. If Ford sold me a truck that burnt up 3 motors in the first 10 days, and also burned up for 50% of the purchasers there'd be riots in Detroit. When you buy an RTR I agree it is supposed to suck, it should be slow, and lack all the cool bits. You should be able to put a pack in it and hand it to your 9yr old nephew and watch him ram the slow ass rtr off your brothers nice wood trim and not break. However the Wraith is not geared or motored to be slow, it has terrible odds of survival OTB, which goes back to my previous post... 27T, 16/87, open frt diff... now it's slow and if the screws don't fall out of the knuckles reasonably durable.
Agree ;-)
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You probably didn't see this... Tanner has physics in a headlock, he
drops 10 stories down 90 feet of orange track and soars 332 feet through the air.
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Holy cow Batman! Was that a jump!!! Unbelievable, thanks for sharing "thumbsup"
Ok this part is a little offensive, so you must think I go 18mph up my street then crank the wheel all the way and wonder why it rolls over? See you must think I'm some sort of drooling, helmet wearing, birth defect.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, what I wrote was not referred to you, it was just a general consideration after seeing what some newbyes do, WOT full lock steer and rollover :lmao:
And the part about how locked front axles behave at speed is all referred to 1:1 vehicles. ;-)
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I'm pissed that out of the box it eats motors, a little pissed the screws fall out of the axles like it's they're job. And also a little pissed about the "brown outs". The marketing was misleading and the gearing was unbelievable. We have a dated, proven weak locker design that puts form over function and a basic 1/10 scale drivetrain in a RC model that easily weighs 8lbs, which is heavier than most 1/8 scales. The Wraith really needs 1/8th scale diffs, with an open 4 spider as an option. My new problem is it'll break one or more of the 4 little screws that hold the ring gear on (43/13 HD gears, stock case, HD locker, epoxy), then the mesh is jacked and I take it apart and rebuild it. There was nothing left to break so something new and creative popped up. That's why I'm playing with the open... my Scorpion came with spare spider gears how cool is that? I also like the modded stock driveshafts as they break long before the next links in the chain.
Yes, I don't comment on eating motors and browning electronics, just because I swapped them new before the first use, but I would have been really angry if I was a newb without high tech spares to swap in...
And the screw thing, well that had me really think if Axial was serious to go that cheap to include all selftapping screws instead of fine thread bolts on critical areas. Again I swapped most of those screws before using it (I dismantled completely after purchase, and rebuilt to my standards) with metric 3mm bolts, and had no screws falling out the knuckles whatsoever, but that's something that should have been done at the factory. Many people didn't know why those "C" screws keep on loosening and I wrote a thread about it on the italian forum I write usually (scalersandcrawlers)
Another area that's critical for selftapping screws and I suggested to swap for fine thread bolts are the diff bearing caps. Selftapping tend to back and loose themselves, and with the pressure exerted on those caps by the R&P, they tend to loose easily, throwing out the gear mesh and ruining the gears themselves. I think you knew this also, but worth writing again for other readers.
Good catch on the open diff gears for the front, I was not remembering that the RTR Scorpion had it and sure is a direct fit. Worth trying for a fast setup, the steering response will feel improved for sure!
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