I just went to Walmart and saw 10 USS Chicagos and they are only 19 bucks Looking at the pictures of the guts on here I am very surprised of the price!!! Makes me wonder is there something missing???? I am going to buy one ,, Just got to find a good excuse as to why is someone my age buying a toy!! Does it go below the sail?? can it go down 3 feet?? thanks Tom.

ever seen this?

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/Walm...1397464/tm.htm

LOL For a moment there I thought that Motorworks came out with the "Akula" (USSR version).

No I haven't gone down yet.. But I am tomorrow my first submarine is this Walmart unit. I am building one from scratch too. That is still in the plan room as they say. It is going to be a 30 inch research sub non scale. 4 inch PVC pipe and clear christmas balls for the front and the tops. Paint them from the inside to make "portholes" sand it all down so it don't look like a "P" trap submarine. then paint it yellow. or white with red trim. It not being scale to anything I want it to go fast or slow I may go with an electric trolling motor. Or I am thinking of modifying a bilge pump to use for the propolsion (Spelling sucks) and I think I have the ballast system figured out. It will be a semi wet semi dry hull system. Anyway after that then I want a model of the Albacore My favorite uncle served on her when it was commissioned. I want the real one. but will settle for a model. I am mainly into RC cars and helis. I want to also scratch build a model of my bus

That would be really cool to have a scratch built bus! It'd be even cooler if you stuck a really powerful motor in there with a good esc because you could powerslide it that would be sooo cool! BTW I've taken an RTV sealed walmart sub to atleast 10 feet probobly more. I've been having some problems wiht my motors burning out though which is really making me mad!.

Try ordering replacement motors from this site:[link]http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=400&item=DCM-166&type=store[/link]

What about those Xmod motor hop up kits from Radio Shack?? They look like the same motor that these subs use. Also you get four per pack different ones but you may put a more powerful motor for the power and or the steering motor, or dive motor.. you have 4 options per pack and they are only 15 us dollars for 4 of them. ALso those Xmods are NEAT little cars gonna get one tomorrow (Payday) Thanks tom .

Yeah I am going to use a wheelchair motor for the bus and the drive package too. I need to get some brass tubing and start the skeletin like the real thing tubular. I got so many projects . the bus will be a year or two off. The PVC sub is the first on the bench. I hope to be done with it in 6 months. Tom