Christmas has come and gone. The presents have been unwrapped with joyous glee. If you’re one of the lucky ones, then hopefully you unwrapped a nice, new radio controlled car or truck. Here’s some of my older articles about how to upgrade and hop-up your new R/C car.
Did you get a Losi Highroller for Christmas? Then you might want [...]
If you can afford it, get an adjustable temp soldering iron. If you can’t afford it, get a few cheap soldering irons at different wattages. Also many of the adjustable soldering irons have replaceable tips. Get a selection of different sized and shaped ones to go with your iron for different soldering tasks.
Keep your [...]
There may come a time when you want to paint a portion of your r/c car’s body a dark color. Dark colors should be painted first so that they don’t bleed through the lighter colors. It can be a pain in the butt to try and mask off a large portion of the body using [...]
This quick article uses electric vehicles as the example, but it also applies to nitro cars.
Setting proper gear mesh between your motor’s pinion gear and spur gear is crucial to efficient and trouble-free running. Improper mesh will cause your gears to wear out much more quickly and cause your motor to run hotter than it [...]
For those planning on installing real hardwood floors in their house by themselves, I have just one tip: don’t. Hire a pro, they’ll do it better, faster, and by the time you factor in materials and all the tools you’re going to have to buy or rent, it’ll probably cost the same.