006 - Servo gremlin

Since I've bought my new Ex-5 a month ago I've a problem with my low budget Futaba servos (Fp-s148 and S3003). After the switching on it is all right but after the first servo movement, when it returns on neutral position,  I start to hear a "grr" and servo overheats.I tried to solve this problem with the several set up possibilities of my new radio but the gremlin remains and I really don't know what to do.

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.

004 - The Long Desired EX-5 And Finally I Bought It!

In the early 90s I was a teenager and from the first time that i saw the KoPropo Ex-5 in a model shop I fell in love but unfortunately at that time I had no money enough.
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 to realize that dream: I bought an Ex-5 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!