Welcome to my blog site... and thanks very much for your re-lived memories too. I remember the Monster Beetle very vividly. One of my best friends Aaron Barclay, used to own the Beetle and we often met up to run our RC cars after school! My brother owned the Thundershot 4WD car, whilst I bought the almost identical Thunderdragon 4WD car - only the bodyshell was different.
The fun is all in the building of the cars, you are right. I had so much fun over the Christmas period building the car, and the anticipation generated in trying out the car was like magic... still a boy at heart. I'll be turning 30 this month, so like you, in the same RC generation!
Thank you for your guidance on fixing the rear end gearbox torque... I was so confident that Tamiya or a third party made an alternative mounting system... but your solution seems perfectly feasible.
My thought was to drive a tapping screw horizontally into the mount, just about the axel to stop it moving upwards. However, after reading your comment, I much prefer to have that adjustment that you talk of. Certainly true that we need different setups for onroad / offroad driving. Wonderful... thanks. :-)
I've been racing my car with some friends in Essex - not sure where you are based... but if you are nearby, you'd be welcome to come along and race your Hornet.
(I've just bought Tamiya Sport Tuned Motor off eBay and some replacement tyres as I figured I'll be racing the spikes off the current set anytime soon! I remember keeping a set of those for slicks...)
Jonathan
Hi Jamie,
Welcome to my blog site... and thanks very much for your re-lived memories too. I remember the Monster Beetle very vividly. One of my best friends Aaron Barclay, used to own the Beetle and we often met up to run our RC cars after school! My brother owned the Thundershot 4WD car, whilst I bought the almost identical Thunderdragon 4WD car - only the bodyshell was different.
The fun is all in the building of the cars, you are right. I had so much fun over the Christmas period building the car, and the anticipation generated in trying out the car was like magic... still a boy at heart. I'll be turning 30 this month, so like you, in the same RC generation!
Thank you for your guidance on fixing the rear end gearbox torque... I was so confident that Tamiya or a third party made an alternative mounting system... but your solution seems perfectly feasible.
My thought was to drive a tapping screw horizontally into the mount, just about the axel to stop it moving upwards. However, after reading your comment, I much prefer to have that adjustment that you talk of. Certainly true that we need different setups for onroad / offroad driving. Wonderful... thanks. :-)
I've been racing my car with some friends in Essex - not sure where you are based... but if you are nearby, you'd be welcome to come along and race your Hornet.
(I've just bought Tamiya Sport Tuned Motor off eBay and some replacement tyres as I figured I'll be racing the spikes off the current set anytime soon! I remember keeping a set of those for slicks...)
Here's indeed to childhood toys.... !
Happy New Year
Jonathan