026 - Team STRC A Waste Of Money

Some month ago I bought from Team STRC a rear lock-out kit for my Cr-01 that includes a pair of stainless steel axles as posted here.
This afternoon, after holidays, I was cleaning the Cr and in rebuilding the rear axle I noticed that a semi-axle was bent. It's quite strange for something (stainless steel) that usually means strenght and it more strange if it happens after only some hours of non-hardcore four wheelin'.
There is only a pair of thing that are clear: I've got a problem to solve and the solution will not come from Team STRC, I will not buy again their rubbish.

So for the moment I returned to Tamiya manual solution awaiting for a good idea to solve this problem.

025 - Ooops!

Yesterday, finally, I found what looked like a nice place for crawling and to get some beautiful pics to post here: a small torrent under the trees with (of course) rocks, water and sand.
What is happened is clearly explained by the pics and the teaching is: first explore and (only) after crawl.
I saved all the electronics switching off the radio and drying it all before re-switching on.

024 - CR01 Future Plans

As noticed some days ago (and probably as  the entire world knew) the stock CR01 shafts are butter made: infact during a non-hardcore four wheeling ride the front shaft snapped out and it results bent. So I've used one of the two extra sets of shaft that fortunately Tamiya puts into the kit. I will swap it soon with something better and tough.
I noticed also that my Robitronic 55t motor has a plenty of torque but it's too slow and it's necessary to replace it.