mercoledì 11 maggio 2011

005 - With many thanks to the local post office...


Finally yesterday I received two of the four or five packets that I'm waiting from weeks and weeks. Theese delays aren't depended by the shops where I bought but by the local post office and by the local postmen that are doing in a sort of boycott. The local news papers talk about over 50 big boxes of letters, small packets and more locked in the post office from weeks... and the place where I live got only 12.000 inhabitants! Definitely I would prefer a honest strike!

First I opened the packet that I was waiting for from the 12th of april: 20 couples of Simply Rc Deans connectors that I bought from Modelsport UK a month ago... thanks Poste Italiane! So I did some soldering practice and I have upgraded from Tamiya plugs to the Deans ones some batteries, an Esc and something else. This is my Stadium Blitzer 2010's Esc... and, yes! I need to do some more practice with the soldering iron.










After my soldering experiments I decided to discharge a battery and to test a new set-up for my Stadium Blitzer: full preload for the front shocks, zero preload for the rear ones and 15T pinion instead of the stock one (13T). Mission acomplished! With only a Sport Tuned motor this truck runs fast and get an amazing handling: I like it!

It will need another 2 or 3 upgrades but the way is correct to have a fast basher.

My second packet is arrived from Modellbau Seidel in Germany with some new parts for my FF03: the uni joints,the carbon motor stay and the aluminium spur gear mount.



martedì 3 maggio 2011

004 - Finally I have it!

In the early 90s I was a teenager and from the first time that i saw the KoPropo Ex5 in a model shop I fell in love. Unfortunately at that time I had no money.
Now I'm an adult (really?), I have a job, some money and a new era is started: the 2,4ghz era.
So finally I decided to enter in this new era and to realize a dream: I bought an Ex5 with 2 Kr407s receivers from Fioroni here in Italy (they work very well, the prices are fine and their delivery service is quick).
two euros and one of the two Kr407s receivers... awesome!