what was your first R/C?
09-10-2010, 05:50 PM
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RE: what was your first R/C?
My first hobby grade R/C car was Kyosho Pegasus. It was crazy, cause at the time I didn't even have a controller. I had the car, 1 battery pack and a turn dial battery charger that made a ticking noise like a clock bomb. I didn't even have a radio. I rig a rubber band around the steering link and all it did was doughnuts. By the time I got a radio for it after 5 or 6 months of playing with it like that, the plastic dog bones were ruined. So the pegasus never had a radio in it during it's short life. So I end up buying a grasshopper.
09-10-2010, 07:25 PM
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RE: what was your first R/C?
Mine wasn't a car. It was an airboat. Had to build it myself:
and the homemade servo, shown partially dismantled here:
Here's an advert for the transmitter and reciever (note it's made by OS):
and the homemade servo, shown partially dismantled here:
Here's an advert for the transmitter and reciever (note it's made by OS):
09-10-2010, 10:04 PM
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RE: what was your first R/C?
I thought my first RC car was the Tamiya Rough Rider. After seeing Argess air boat, I remember my first RC car I built kit form (Real Kit form LOL) all electronic transistors I solder onto the breadboard
is the Marcraft SE-1012. Once built I had to tune in the frequency . The car always went forward, hit the button and it reverses and turns. Loads of fun back in the day. Wow how things have changed over the years, OK decades. Boy now I really feel old.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/gallery/ga...berID%3D116432
is the Marcraft SE-1012. Once built I had to tune in the frequency . The car always went forward, hit the button and it reverses and turns. Loads of fun back in the day. Wow how things have changed over the years, OK decades. Boy now I really feel old.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/gallery/ga...berID%3D116432
09-11-2010, 10:21 AM
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RE: what was your first R/C?
Kyosho USA-1 electric with a pair of 427 speedworks. When I turned about 13-14 I traded it for an aluminum mtb frame (dumb move on my part). That guy cleaned it up and traded my USA-1 for a 5 liter Mustang. DOH!!!!@#!
then I got a Schumacher Cougar (works edition with the red aluminum chassis), which is still used on a regular basis. (until yesterday when I broke a front wishbone and can't find another)
Anybody got one? Part number T333
then I got a Schumacher Cougar (works edition with the red aluminum chassis), which is still used on a regular basis. (until yesterday when I broke a front wishbone and can't find another)
Anybody got one? Part number T333
09-11-2010, 02:30 PM
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RE: what was your first R/C?
A Traxxas Stampede (when they first came out) in the mid 90s.
Didn't have the luxuries that the new ones do, like a slipper clutch an-....oh, wait, that's about the only difference isn't it[&:]
It was a kit...combined with the Futaba Magnum Junior radio, a couple Dynamite 1500 stick packs, and that crank-the-knob Hobbico charger wound up being around 300 bones.
Nice to see there are guys that predate ThunderbirdJunkie by a significant margin since his "OH CRAP, GETTING OLD" birthday is right around the corner
Didn't have the luxuries that the new ones do, like a slipper clutch an-....oh, wait, that's about the only difference isn't it[&:]
It was a kit...combined with the Futaba Magnum Junior radio, a couple Dynamite 1500 stick packs, and that crank-the-knob Hobbico charger wound up being around 300 bones.
Nice to see there are guys that predate ThunderbirdJunkie by a significant margin since his "OH CRAP, GETTING OLD" birthday is right around the corner
09-11-2010, 09:23 PM
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RE: what was your first R/C?
I remember the Lunch Box was the first "real" RC I ever seen... on a trip to the states when I must have been 8 or 9 years old to Bangor Maine and this guy was doing a demo in a shopping mall driving the lunch box off a table that was waist high.. that memory is burnt in my mind lol.. that would have been in like 1985 or 86.
09-11-2010, 09:51 PM
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RE: what was your first R/C?
ORIGINAL: ThunderbirdJunkie
A Traxxas Stampede (when they first came out) in the mid 90s.
Didn't have the luxuries that the new ones do, like a slipper clutch an-....oh, wait, that's about the only difference isn't it[&:]
A Traxxas Stampede (when they first came out) in the mid 90s.
Didn't have the luxuries that the new ones do, like a slipper clutch an-....oh, wait, that's about the only difference isn't it[&:]
09-12-2010, 09:11 AM
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RE: what was your first R/C?
If ThunderbirdJunkie recalls correctly, the only *real* changes were the driveshafts and the Revo-style slipper. Everything else is mostly cosmetic.
09-12-2010, 11:04 AM
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RE: what was your first R/C?
ORIGINAL: ThunderbirdJunkie
If ThunderbirdJunkie recalls correctly, the only *real* changes were the driveshafts and the Revo-style slipper. Everything else is mostly cosmetic.
If ThunderbirdJunkie recalls correctly, the only *real* changes were the driveshafts and the Revo-style slipper. Everything else is mostly cosmetic.
09-12-2010, 04:45 PM
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RE: what was your first R/C?
Had lots of toy grade rc`s in my youth,
but my first hobby grade rc was about 17 years ago it was the kyosho sandmaster kit version,
my older brother got a panda danny thompson stadium truck kit the same day,
these were our first nitro trucks we had ever driven,
the sandmaster was fun to run but the stadium truck was alot quicker than it.
but my first hobby grade rc was about 17 years ago it was the kyosho sandmaster kit version,
my older brother got a panda danny thompson stadium truck kit the same day,
these were our first nitro trucks we had ever driven,
the sandmaster was fun to run but the stadium truck was alot quicker than it.
10-11-2010, 07:29 PM
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RE: what was your first R/C?
first hobby grade rc for me was the Marui Samarui a few months after that I got the Big Bear then the Clod Buster. I still have the Clod Buster and also now have the Redcat Ground Pounder and Redcat Earhquake 3.5 nitro.
10-11-2010, 08:04 PM
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RE: what was your first R/C?
Mine was a rustler, used ! but I loved it and still have it. (plus a few more)
I didnt get into this wonderful hobby (addiction) till around 02.....so many years waisted before !
I didnt get into this wonderful hobby (addiction) till around 02.....so many years waisted before !
