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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/2/2008 1:36:28 PM   
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Hi nauticar, thanks for your detailed pics and posts. I've been building my Durga for the first time (1st time building any 1/10 scale for that matter) and this thread is really helpful. Cheers.


hey simalive, thanks for looking at my thread! glad it was of some help. go easy on your build, and feel free to post pics here (of the build that is lol)!


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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/2/2008 1:47:22 PM   
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Tamiya Fluorine Coated Suspension Ball (8 Pcs) #53709

I really like the suspension design of the DB01.... the suspension balls are not rigidly in place. This means that in the case of an impact, they will pop out of place....thereby preventing the suspension arms from absorbing the full impact (and breaking in the process). Almost all my rear end collisions resulted in the suspension arms popping out.

Now the balls are small, black and they are EASY to lose. Fortunately I put quite a lot of AW grease over the suspension balls....so when the suspension arms popped out, the stickiness of the AW grease kinda held them where they were. There are two plastic spacers at each arm but spacers can be found in most parts bin.

Lose these suspension balls and you wont be able to run your DB01 properly. My suspension balls are a little squashed out of shape already-and I have a packet of #53709 on order as I type.

Nauticar

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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/2/2008 1:58:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think Maxamp lipos have the nicest design. The 6000HV fits snugly, but I'm using the TA05 battery posts and I had to make some modifications - I had to unscrew the front post to make it sit higher, and lock it with another nut at the base to stabilize the post (since unscrewing the post will unseat it further from the mounting hole). I had no problems with the rear post though.

My runtimes now are limited not by how much amps the pack has, but how hot my motor gets. Usually 10 - 13 minutes of me playing is all it takes to hit 100degC @ the motor!

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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/2/2008 2:31:03 PM   
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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/2/2008 3:17:36 PM   
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hey simalive, thanks for looking at my thread! glad it was of some help. go easy on your build, and feel free to post pics here (of the build that is lol)!


Here're some pics of my build. I thought I was done last week and gave it a little test (on my kitchen floor ), but the car doesn't accelerate quite the way I'd imagine. Found out that I didn't tighten the ball diffs enough and were slipping (rookie mistake I guess). Took covers apart and rebuild the diffs. Tested it again yesterday....and scared the crap out of me... the car shoots off and nearly create a hole or two on my wall..hahaa. Really looking forward to bring it outside and test once the weather's good! Building this thing has been so much fun.



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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/2/2008 3:20:42 PM   
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I dont know how you do it, I havent broken a thing on my Durga and Ive had it for over a month now ............BUT if I take it out the box and build it maybe I can have some fun too


LOL quit kidding around and start building it already! almost got me there haha

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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/2/2008 3:27:16 PM   
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Here're some pics of my build. I thought I was done last week and gave it a little test (on my kitchen floor ), but the car doesn't accelerate quite the way I'd imagine. Found out that I didn't tighten the ball diffs enough and were slipping (rookie mistake I guess). Took covers apart and rebuild the diffs. Tested it again yesterday....and scared the crap out of me... the car shoots off and nearly create a hole or two on my wall..hahaa. Really looking forward to bring it outside and test once the weather's good! Building this thing has been so much fun.




I like that blue

I made the same mistake with my build. You can actually tighten the diffs without taking the entire assembly apart. Just take out the drive shaft on the right side of the diff and you can stick an allen wrench in there and tighten it.


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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/2/2008 3:38:28 PM   
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Here're some pics of my build. I thought I was done last week and gave it a little test (on my kitchen floor ), but the car doesn't accelerate quite the way I'd imagine. Found out that I didn't tighten the ball diffs enough and were slipping (rookie mistake I guess). Took covers apart and rebuild the diffs. Tested it again yesterday....and scared the crap out of me... the car shoots off and nearly create a hole or two on my wall..hahaa. Really looking forward to bring it outside and test once the weather's good! Building this thing has been so much fun.



well here's something new! a cool blue durga, NICE! cant help feeling a sense of deja vu though, about a couple of weeks ago i think a dude in the DI thread painted his new DI a cool blue like yours. nice.

the durga is scary yeah, for me it's really quiet.... you wont expect something that quiet to zip around real fast. glad you enjoyed building the kit! i learned a thing or two when i did mine!

keep the pics coming!

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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/2/2008 3:41:13 PM   
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I made the same mistake with my build. You can actually tighten the diffs without taking the entire assembly apart. Just take out the drive shaft on the right side of the diff and you can stick an allen wrench in there and tighten it.



OMG why didnt i think of that......! all this while ive been unscrewing + screwing back those screws.....

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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/2/2008 8:01:13 PM   
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I made the same mistake with my build. You can actually tighten the diffs without taking the entire assembly apart. Just take out the drive shaft on the right side of the diff and you can stick an allen wrench in there and tighten it.



OMG why didnt i think of that......! all this while ive been unscrewing + screwing back those screws.....


hahaha Me 2! Thought my arm was falling of.. So many screws to unscrew!

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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/3/2008 3:17:06 AM   
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I like that blue

I made the same mistake with my build. You can actually tighten the diffs without taking the entire assembly apart. Just take out the drive shaft on the right side of the diff and you can stick an allen wrench in there and tighten it.



Thanks for the great Tip!! Really quite obvious and make sense now that you pointed it out, hahaa. Thanks.

Did any of you have issues with the mounting of the front wheels? The hex recess of the wheels seem very tight fit when putting onto the hex hub - I always seem to second guess whether the wheel has completely pushed tight into the slot or not. (I ended up sanded the edges of the hex hub a little bit, and test fitted it on the wheel recess a few times before actually mounting them.)

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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/3/2008 3:33:28 AM   
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Thanks for the great Tip!! Really quite obvious and make sense now that you pointed it out, hahaa. Thanks.

Did any of you have issues with the mounting of the front wheels? The hex recess of the wheels seem very tight fit when putting onto the hex hub - I always seem to second guess whether the wheel has completely pushed tight into the slot or not. (I ended up sanded the edges of the hex hub a little bit, and test fitted it on the wheel recess a few times before actually mounting them.)


No problem I thought i'd save you guys the hassle of having to unscrew all that stuff.

Yea I hate those hex hubs. The first time I put on one of the front wheels it wasn't aligned right and I tightened it down without realizing it. It screwed up the inside of the wheel and it would wobble when it drove. Had to chizzle it back into shape.

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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/3/2008 2:16:28 PM   
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Yea I hate those hex hubs. The first time I put on one of the front wheels it wasn't aligned right and I tightened it down without realizing it. It screwed up the inside of the wheel and it would wobble when it drove. Had to chizzle it back into shape.


did you chisel the hex hubs or the inner side of the wheel?

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RE: My 1st Belt Driven Tamiya - Durga DB-01 - 4/3/2008 3:48:18 PM   
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