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Photo of the Week:by Jeff Rogerson The IHobby Expo is just around the corner and I have to finish packing my bags for the flight out. It just occurred to me that the airlines charge for baggage now, so I have to unpack all my r/c cars. I just can’t afford to take 18 bags for a five day trip. Of [...]
I typically post shorter questions that we have received, just to save people time, but I’ll start off this week with a long one. Enjoy! 🙂 ========== regarding your article ‘Pay Up Suckers! ‘ I read your article on local tracks organizing trophy races to keep afloat and completely agree with your observation on the growing trend of racers domination in this hobby. [...]
Photo of the Week:by Paul Tichonczuk’s friend, Christian So there was a huge thunderstorm taking place east of me last night. A lot of lightning and all that, it looked really cool. So I grabbed my camera, hopped in my truck, and started driving east. After about 25 miles I hadn’t gotten any closer to it. Turns out that thunderstorm was [...]
A teacher once told me that “there is no such thing as a stupid question”. Well folks, I beg to differ… ========== Cubby my charger keeps telling me i have a connection error every time i try to charge my lipo and my guess is that there is a bad connection inside the pack. It’s a Turnigy 3S. Can i repair my [...]
Photo of the week:by Grant Cox It’s another quickie this week as I wait to catch my plane back home after three weeks of fun in the sun sweating my ***** off in California doing some Navy stuff and learning about sheet metal. Here’s what I made:Build log: Ultimate scrap build – Jumping into the wayback machine for this one, [...]
Here I am, still saving the world from gasholes, one at a time… ========== Bigsquid I am having a problem keeping the clutchbell bearings in my OFNA Pirate from blowing up. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? I like the new look of your website. Earl Cubby– Ofna Pirate eh? Damn those things have huge tires. Tell ya what, here’s your problem- it’s nitro, and [...]
I am just now getting back from a delightful weekend in Colorado watching the Red Bull Motocross Of Nations. Rc racing doesn’t have anything like it, but in moto, one weekend a year the top 3 riders from different countries race against each other (on different tracks across the globe each year) to determine which team/country is the best. America [...]
Jeff sent me a text saying he was going to have trouble getting to his uber weekly R/C around the web post, so I told him I would try and cover. Please don’t send in the hate mail, it’s just once! 😛 Pic of the week Our picture of the week is also the project build of the week! You [...]
Has it already been another week? Read on as I go through all our mail and grab a couple for the BigSquidRC front page. Here’s what I yanked this week… ========== “Dear Bigsquid, After hours of researching on-line, I decided to buy a new HPI Vorza. My question is should I go with a 4S lipo or a 6S lipo? Max” Cubby– Nice pick on [...]
Photo of the Week: RC Drift cars by Mia_spb It’s some Slim Pickens this week around the web. It doesn’t help that I’m out of town for a few weeks and don’t have as much time to browse the interwebs as I’d like to have. But oh well, if you don’t like it, ask for a refund. Laughing at other’s expense: [...]
Every week we get tons of email, and every week I pick the two that are easiest to answer and use them here! Hehehe ========== “Hello, I was wondering whatever happened to the HPI Hellfire that was supposed to be the next big monster truck for HPI? Patrice from Québec” Cubby– What’s going on up there in the land of hockey, curling, donuts, fries w/ mayo, [...]
Photo of the Week: By julianfb. So after a few months of behind the scenes work, the Big Boss Man decided our new site was finally ready for prime time. Hope you all like it. Also make sure to make use of the new features at the bottoms of each post to “Like” stuff on Facebook or share on Twitter [...]
You shoot us your questions, I give careless advice…. 🙂 ========== “What is your favorite brand of nitro fuel? Karl F.” Cubby– Ummmm….. I’m not sure where you got any kind of indication that I like nitro in any way, shape or form. Nitro sucks, horribly bad in fact, and is nothing but a PITA. I’ve stated before that I’d like to drive nitro, [...]
Photo of the Week:By Stuart Knappstein Build Log: Camel Trophy Defender 110 build. Charted: Scale truck and crawler tires comparison chart. Review: Thunder T610 charger reviewed @ Ultimate RC Shopping Around: Lots of Labor Day Sales out there. Story Time: What’s your worst run away story? Video of the Week:RC Swagger Wagon parody
Is it just me or am I a day late with this as well? 🙂 Let’s get on with your questions/comments…. ========== “I’ve really enjoyed your battery and charger shootouts. It’s nice to see someone take a somewhat scientific approach to this stuff. Too many people make crazy assumptions that if you pay 3X as much for something, that it must be 3x [...]
