A few days ago I've rescued my two Kyosho Mega 16x2 motors. The one with the most faded label is the motor I've received as Christmas present from my parents when I've bought my Yokomo Works '91, ages ago. The other one is the one I've bought on the bay with the intention to restore it and use while my first, also restored, will be placed on a shelf as memory of the good old days.
I don't know about the reputation of the Mega motors in the golden era but I've ran mine in my Works '91 and in my TA01 Lancia Delta Integrale and I remeber the give a plenty of speed.
The day I've rescued the two motors I noticed (as never before) that the second one has a non Kyosho endbell and I surfing the Web to understand something about: I guess that the previous owner switched to a different endbell to avoid the use of 5x5 mm brushes.
Restoring theese two motors will be one of my winter project and will require new brushes, a deep clean and a pair of new MCI Racing decals.
Today I've rescued the Trinity Tru-Lathe I've bought years ago for a bargain price: it needs to be well cleaned and refurbed to be back to a good shape and be back in businnes so it will be my first winter project.
What is clear in watching the Kyosho Ultima SB is that its four dampers use fine pitch collars to preload adjustment. I'm a big fan of plastic dampers in bashing models but I'm not the same about threaded bodies. Of course the possibility to do fine adjustements is plus for racing models but is it the same in models built to run for fun? To me they are much prone to catch dirt and dust forcing to a more frequent maintenance. I will see... Meanwhile my Ultima still waits to be build. 😓
Holidays have been postponed, the build of my Ultima SB have been deferred to date to be determined.
In the wait for better times I've added to the parts needed to complete the car: steel suspensions bushings required to replace the plastic ones that came with the kit and some stickers to give, as usual, a bit of the good of days aura.
Before starting the build of my Ultima SB Dirtmaster I've purchased a set of KiCK RC yellow rims from JC Racing to mach my idea of Kyosho buggy and to match the paint scheme I've got in mind.
I've also purchased a couple of 4000 mAh Nimh from LRP to have because I'm trying to fill the shortage in my battery stock... as usual living in Venice doesn't help with the hobby (to be honest it doesen't help with anything).
Last week the kit I'm going to build during our next holidays has been delivered to my door.
It's a Kyosho, my first Kyosho kit since I'm in the hobby.
To be honest I've planned to buy a Kyosho several years ago, in 1991, but the Lazer ZX-R wasn't available so I've been "forced" 😄 to buy the Yokomo Works '91.
This time, after I had realized that I prefer 2wd buggies, I decided to go for a Ultima SB... at first I've considered the Dune Master but the appeal of a proper buggy is much stronger to me so I go for the Dirt Master.
Some extra bits have been orderd, some already delivered: Schumacher tires, Rude Bits bearings for the steering rack, Kyosho's universals, yellow rims from JC racing and Kyosho's steel suspensions bushings.
Hope I will a good time in building it.
In the wait for the kit I'm going to build during our next holidays I'm considering to use an ESC that I own from a while and that I've run only for a couple of time: my M-Troniks TT-60.
Last year it have been discarded in favor of a Ko Propo VFS-FR2 as ESC in my Tamiya BBX because of its footprint but, this time, it would find room enough in the new chassis.
I would like to start to use it because I'm always really proud to use something that is made in the UK and because finding good option to the cheap chinese is becoming harder and harder.
