17
Mar
New Servo
Having already shredded the gears in two servos in my buggy a new hi-torque metal geared one arrived in the post at work! I’ll be back tearing up fields quite soon.
Back to installing Opensolaris though now.
15
Mar
New Toy, HPI Trophy 3.5
On Saturday I went to collect a new toy I got off eBay. A pretty much new HPI Trophy 3.5 buggy, similar to the one in the image below. It was pretty much an impulse buy but there is nothing wrong with that. Since racing 1/10 scale cars back in the day I had always wanted a nitro car and now I have one.
Its pretty awesome, I’m a little surprised that the fuel tank isn’t bigger or the fuel doesn’t last as long as I expected but I’m very heavy on the throttle. I had a little problem with it, the steering servo was a little knackered, I’m not sure why but I replaced it with one I had from my 1/10 scale car, I’ve also replaced the radio gear as I can’t be doing with a steering wheel, its all about the joy sticks in RC cars.
I’ve not yet had a chance to take a picture of it but I’ve done plenty of bashing over the week end. I found a nice park quite close to where I live which is awesome and has quite a few good spots for catching some air, think the best I’ve had it was about a metre off the ground, pretty awesome.
Boys and there toys eh?
19
Jun
Broken Down!
If you’ve been following my tweets you’ll know I broke down on the M6 early this morning. I ran out of petrol! I wasn’t happy and I was quite annoyed their is not a single service station on the A14! I was heading up to Stafford to collect my iPhone after having a break with friends in Great Yarmouth! It had been a awesome little break which was spent drinking ice cold beer in the evening and enjoying the little sun we had during the day. However the £135 recovery fee today didn’t end the break well.
Here is a picture of the Astra being picked up by the recover truck!
