322 - I Have To Find The Time

I still haven't found the time to recuperate my BBX from our home in the mountain and I can't wait to start to clean it to understand where this new car is more prone to wear out and to understand its strong points.

For sure I will keep the Reedy motor in place of the Orion one (it's always hard to step back to a powerful motor to a less power one).

Another point regards the ESC: I'm not sure I could keep the KO one (I'm so disappointed by me, it's the second one that I fry) so, probably, I will swap with one of mine Robitronic Speedstar 2 (or with a new one)... keeping alive the old school is getting harder.

321 - First Time in More Than 35 Years

 

For the first time in more than 35 years I experienced a battery shortcut: after charging one of my Team Orion Rocket Pack and plugged it with the ESC it started to smoke... never happened in this years in the hobby.

Unfortunately something happened also to the ESC: brake and reverse seem to be gone, I will make a try to reset them before swapping it with another one.

320 - That Insane Motor Swapping

 

When Tamiya release the first BBX images, before ordering it, I wondered if my Reedy Modified Pink Dot could be the right motor to put in but in buiIding it I decided to go with a Team Orion Element 19t instead bought on porpouse.

With the 19t the car run really fast on tarmac or other hard surfaces but on the grass it resulted a bit lazy so, during last holidays, I decided to swap the motor with my good old (and practically unused) Reedy.