markbognor
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Sept 21, 2021 9:18:42 GMT
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markbognor
South East
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Sept 20, 2021 20:29:11 GMT
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Ok, I've taken the upgraded motor out of the 90 and put it in the 45. It works perfectly forwards and backwards. Which I believe means the bother with the 90 is electronic. I'll look more into that in due course The 45 is working so I'm going to focus on that for the time being. My stepson wants one now, so I've ordered him a MN40 off eBay for 31 whole pounds. I've also ordered 2 servos and 2 motors. When I get paid I'll order batteries, esc's and radio gear. And then cross my fingers the bar stewards still work. 😁 Mark, I've had a re read of your link and understand what you have done. I'll get them upgraded and running and then sort out the suspension. 😃 Dave you'll have to get creative with the mounting. The plastic chassis trays in the Man's has a stick out spigot. You'll need to cut that out of the tray and then use washers or something either side of the chass, the mounting hole in the chassis is about 4mm diameter because of the shape of the plastic tray shock mount design. One of the troubles with modding these is it tends to snowball pretty quickly! I was pretty impressed with the standard MN D99s performance - particularly once there was some weight in the wheels to keep it planted.
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markbognor
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Sept 19, 2021 20:44:24 GMT
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markbognor
South East
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Sept 19, 2021 12:17:56 GMT
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While there was wheel swapping going on the C34 got some slots too.
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markbognor
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Sept 19, 2021 12:14:32 GMT
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Last Edit: Sept 19, 2021 12:15:33 GMT by markbognor
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markbognor
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Sept 18, 2021 20:47:30 GMT
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Cheers for that rich, just been looking on eBay. I'll be having one on pay day. Also, do you, or anyone else know what the black connector type is called? Looking at batteries I can't seem to find any with that type of plug. Dean's and T plugs seem to be most common. I'll change to Dean's if I have to, but I'd rather not if I can help it. Can’t recall off the top of my head, I know WPL sell them. Bognor might know.. No Idea sorry - I haven't used any of these little connectors that WPL and MN use, everything gets swapped to Dean's connectors here.
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markbognor
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Sept 18, 2021 11:41:39 GMT
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I think the chap building this one is opening up the bonnet and mounting the battery and electrics under there, in a similar format to the WPL FJ's. I've been looking at reducing the overhang on the back, nice to see it looks pretty good when done. I may have to follow that chaps route of battery in the front, as I'd prefer an empty bed. Don't worry yourself about a tyre mate, these ones aren't staying on long. Cheers though. 😃 Cool, secret wheel & tyre plans? Don't forget you'll also need a propper servo when you switch to stand alone radio. 17g for these.
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markbognor
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Sept 18, 2021 8:41:21 GMT
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Cool, nice mojo boost too. A few builds I've seen with these the first thing they've done is move the battery from hanging out the back to into some kind of homemade trunk behind the cab. Does it have proportional steering or are you going to have to go to third party radio fairly soon? It isn't proportional, so that's going to have to be upgraded. Which puts me into the territory of the first lot of trouble I had with the D90. Motor will need an upgrade too, it doesn't seem to have much torque. The tyres are a strange one, 3 are soft like you get in the kits and 1 is harder. I was expecting all 4 to be the harder type. Moving the battery seems like a good idea, it's not something I'd thought about yet, so thanks for the tip. 😃 I'll have a look through my MN tyres, I might have a spare softer one.
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markbognor
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Sept 18, 2021 8:39:58 GMT
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I think the chap building this one is opening up the bonnet and mounting the battery and electrics under there, in a similar format to the WPL FJ's.
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markbognor
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Sept 17, 2021 20:49:08 GMT
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Well, I've done what I said I wouldn't. I've bought another one. 😁 An RTR MN45 this time, it was £40 off the Bay, how could I not. It works and drives, which is a good start for me. So I need to upgrade some stuff, and hope it keeps working. 😃 Cool, nice mojo boost too. A few builds I've seen with these the first thing they've done is move the battery from hanging out the back to into some kind of homemade trunk behind the cab. Does it have proportional steering or are you going to have to go to third party radio fairly soon?
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markbognor
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Mark, you're far more clever at this than me. You're modifying and making your own parts while I'm struggling to get mine to just work. This D90 hasn't half put me off getting another model. 😃 You should have seen how long it took me to figure out why the steering wasn't working on a transmitter I hadn't used before a while back. Learning that there was a % rate control was 'fun'. Didn't have anything like that on the entry level 27mhz sets I was used to.
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markbognor
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Sept 5, 2021 13:50:44 GMT
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Finally got into my MN that's been sitting on the shelf since I sold off the original running gear. This one was going to get the C34KM single speed that is now under the cut down C34. Having spotted a cheap generic single speed on Amazon a week or so ago I decided to get going with it. The single speed came with a pair of prop shafts too. Suspension for this one will be another set of modified RBR/C WPL style units that will be modded for increased throw as I have done before. It's also getting a GRP electrics tray and body mounts so that I can do away with the MN battery tray for more space and have a bit more clearence under the chassis for a servo on axle mount. Friday evening got the suspension links built up, a combination of threaded studs from Amazon and an assortment of third party rod ends. The chassis rails transfer case holes have been drilled higher and further forward to lift the gearbox in the chassis and make the rear drive shaft longer, to ease the angle that it needs to be at to reach the upper, counter rotating output shaft. The WPL axles got built while watching telly later. With the axles on first thing Sat I took the opportunity while Nik was at the hairdresser's to get on with the suspension. RBR/C units stripped and rebuilt so that the full length of the bore can be used. New shafts made from cut down M3x50 socket head bolts and ball ends from surplus WPL parts tapped to 3mm to avoid them splitting. With those fitted and it self supporting I cracked on with the plot paths for the GRP parts. While they were cutting I was cutting the grass and hanging up some washing. Later yesterday evening I got the extended prop shafts made and the rear body mount done adjusting how it sits so the body is lower over the chassis than stock. There's a fair bit cut out from the interior tray to for round the motor and transfer case. Very annoyingly, during the faffing, fitting and re fitting the body I've managed to loose one of the lower spring sets. These are unavailable without buying a full set and waiting for them to come from China so I'll have to make something to replace them. This will lift the ride height a little once the spring aren't sitting on the rod ends. There's a a reciever for it coming and a WPL 25g metal gear servo. It'll use one of the rubbish 60-120A ESCs I have in stock untill I can grab a HW 1060 for it.
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markbognor
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Aug 30, 2021 20:22:15 GMT
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The cut up C34 has had new shocks too, these are the metal RBR/C ones that are the same style as the WPL units. These have been modified a little to have a much longer throw. But the gearbox is slipping again and the tourque twist is quite bad because it's so softly sprung, so I might end up putting the single speed I have aside for the next MN project in this one.
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markbognor
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Aug 30, 2021 20:13:11 GMT
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markbognor
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Aug 30, 2021 20:09:10 GMT
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Dave are you running the original electrics in the MN or third party separate reciever/ESC?
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markbognor
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Aug 30, 2021 19:59:26 GMT
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Love how the Fuchs and stinger bluff you into thinking it's on a Beetle pan.
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Last Edit: Aug 30, 2021 19:59:43 GMT by markbognor
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markbognor
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Kactom Weekend 2021 markbognor
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Aug 24, 2021 20:58:07 GMT
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Awesome! That little ivory and baby blue pick-up got it going on! Moscvich 412... I have definitely seen more of that one before, but currently it escapes my hunting. Have one in green suede instead.
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markbognor
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Later that afternoon I ordered a cheapy gyro from Amazon to arrive the next day. It got fitted and the car can be driven in a straight line now as well as hold a slide - video to come at some point.
It seems to do the counter steering gyro things well...
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markbognor
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I haven't touched the Pinecone SG-1604 for a while. However, I just canibalised it's electrics to fit in my D12KM. So to keep it mobile untill I buy another set, or the brushless upgrade, I rooted through my drawer of parts that might become projects one day and dug out a brushless motor and (massively over size) brushless ESC. The motor is a rotating case affair, about the same size as the 380, but with a 3mm shaft. The original Pinecone pinion has been drilled out to fit and with a slight relief of the chassis it fits right in. With a bit more chassis jiggling around I have fitted a 3s pack, WPL servo and the reciever I was using in the green C34-1. I've only managed to run it for a few mins because it's been raining here most of the afternoon, but it doesn't seem as ridiculously fast as I was expecting - but that may be because the wheels were just constantly spinning - I have fairly small diameter solid drift tyres on it so it doesn't really get the power down, and I've sold the rally block because I never expected to use them! It does really seem to suffer from not having a gyro fitted, so that's the first extra to go on the shopping list.
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