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my truly universal starter box - 7/11/2008 9:44:43 PM   
NickNitro26


 

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Status: offline 		It grabs right inside the chassis, so all i have to do is push it forwards, the distance between them fits just so there is no side wobble.

So I can fire up my 2 truggys and my buggy as fast as I change models in my DXR3 radio :P screw the pegs haha

waddaya guys think?

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/11/2008 10:30:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		If it works well... Thats awesome.. And i may have to do it myself... I have the same box... Make sure the little posts dont rub the flywheel... Could cause some problems... you can always make them shorter if they rub at all... Good idea though

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/11/2008 11:26:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		they dont rub on anything !

and if you ever decide to do it, make sure the hooks arent on the clutch side... the clutch takes a tad more space then the other side of the flywheel


and yes it works awesomly

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/11/2008 11:26:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		what a fantastic idea! You my friend are a smart cookie

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/11/2008 11:29:23 PM   
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Status: online 		Good deal bro, that makes it that much easier to have just one starter box for everything. Nice work!

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/11/2008 11:32:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		haha thanks guys.

I dont remember when I posted it, but a while back I asked what I could do if I had more R/Cs and some said to buy different tops or another starter box for every R/C which sounded quite ridiculous and expensive... so instead of spending 50$ to 100$ ....... total cost of upgrade..... 80 cents

and some said to just change the pegs everytime.... hmmmm... i dont think so lol

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/11/2008 11:34:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's pretty good. honestly cant believe i didnt think of it
Guess im not a smart as yew lol.
You should patend it and sell it!

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/12/2008 12:03:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		i'm surprized the million dollar companies havn't thought of it lol i guess they only pretend they use R/C cars

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/12/2008 12:30:47 AM   
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Status: online 		you my friend are a champion!!!!! i had a thought of putting two posts sticking out off the top of the box....then drilling locating holes in my chassis in the right place... but im thinking ill go with this idea now

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/12/2008 12:54:52 AM   
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ORIGINAL: NickNitro26

i'm surprized the million dollar companies havn't thought of it lol i guess they only pretend they use R/C cars

Perhaps you should patent it, and then you can make a million dollars.

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/12/2008 2:54:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		you can't patent it now, everyone's seen it now. think about it, do you want to sell 1 box or 5 to every racer? universal box would make less money in the long run. oh yeah, old idea too, saw it in a magazine about 6 months ago. i've seen it done and it does most definitely work flawlessly, (some cars have taller flywheels than others), if you came up with it yourself you are a smart cat dude.

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/12/2008 3:57:53 AM   
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you can't patent it now, everyone's seen it now. think about it, do you want to sell 1 box or 5 to every racer? universal box would make less money in the long run. oh yeah, old idea too, saw it in a magazine about 6 months ago. i've seen it done and it does most definitely work flawlessly, (some cars have taller flywheels than others), if you came up with it yourself you are a smart cat dude.



haha thanks, well I used logic... i figures why use the pegs for something that differs for every buggy & truggy when I noticed the flywheel hole was the same dimentions for all the ones I had. so it was a no brainer for me. I didn't like the plastic pegs that came with it... seemed to cheap.

but it works great now

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/13/2008 3:39:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		Good deal! This was in an issue of ExtreamRC a few months back. I've been thinking about doing that to my OFNA blue box.

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/13/2008 3:54:16 AM   
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ORIGINAL: losifiend

Good deal! This was in an issue of ExtreamRC a few months back. I've been thinking about doing that to my OFNA blue box.




i was about to say that i saw that same modd months ago in a magazine its a great mod

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RE: my truly universal starter box - 7/13/2008 6:33:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		ah well, someone came up with it before me then lol

Still I showed it to some that never thought about it

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