About a week ago I was at the RC races watching and thinking how I need to do this... Well after the race they said they would be racing again next Sunday (usually its every 2 or so) and I thought ok, I can get my old truck together with some new parts by then. So I got online and found a hobby shop in the area (that means within 2 hours of here) and made a list of parts that I would need to get. Saturday I went, intending to buy all the parts needed or for +~$100 a new truck that I knew had its own class in racing here and that I have liked since it came out. After looking a while, I ended up with the new truck and some new higher capacity batteries.
I got home after making a stop at the motocross track and junk yard and opened the truck up. Its a nice, big off road truck, ready to run, with lots of suspension. I was ready for the races...then I read something (I forget what) that made me look at the batteries I bought, bad news, they were a newer type than the 14 year old Radio shack batteries that I had and were not compatable with my charger. So I tried the old batteries, the truck looks really cool running around, but the batteries were only good for about 2-3 minutes and I needed 5. Well maybe I could get my Nitro car running, it just needed a tune and I could probably get away with running it in the novice class. When I was about to go run it I realized that I had to charge the glow plug heater, but where was the cord? Long story short, I found the glow heater charger about 30 minutes before the race and its a 4 hour charger.
So I ended up going to the race and just watching. It was good racing and the weather turned out being a lot better than it was supposed to be.
I got home after making a stop at the motocross track and junk yard and opened the truck up. Its a nice, big off road truck, ready to run, with lots of suspension. I was ready for the races...then I read something (I forget what) that made me look at the batteries I bought, bad news, they were a newer type than the 14 year old Radio shack batteries that I had and were not compatable with my charger. So I tried the old batteries, the truck looks really cool running around, but the batteries were only good for about 2-3 minutes and I needed 5. Well maybe I could get my Nitro car running, it just needed a tune and I could probably get away with running it in the novice class. When I was about to go run it I realized that I had to charge the glow plug heater, but where was the cord? Long story short, I found the glow heater charger about 30 minutes before the race and its a 4 hour charger.
So I ended up going to the race and just watching. It was good racing and the weather turned out being a lot better than it was supposed to be.
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So its been a month, do you have everything functioning now?
It functions, but I still don't have a charger, been spending to much on the real truck.
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