Skeleton to a Basher
 

In the begining all fresh and clean. Notice those silly shocks. I was a newbie.
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...e/P1010364.jpg

Internals added
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...e/P1010331.jpg

Then she got too hot for her own good :005: Fans added. Notice the shock change?
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...e/P1010036.jpg

The melt down
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...P1010023-1.jpg

Repaired and back with military type might :027: I painted that :eek: Ok its a pic from the early days, but it follows my story line :028:
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...e/P1010325.jpg

Nothing beats brushless or all the help you can get from this forum.

Very nice maxx. Have fun with it. Those new shocks should be so much better than the previous ones.

nice dont feel "sucked in" by the coolness of those shocks i too have a set of blue msr5 shocks just laying around new out of package and i was so diapionted with there performance (just by hand testing them) i bought a set of bigbores work like a charm hoping to sell them soon i have seen them go for good money on ebay so i am wishing for high hopes.

He now is using the UE shocks..

I remember that IB metldown.

all and all, a very nice maxx.

wow, i've never seen an exploded nimh before

How did those batteries explode? Too hot of a set-up?

No, for just being IB's.. their first batch tended to do so.

I had the same thing happen to my IB 4200's.. thats why i didnt go ib ever again.

Happened to me too. But, I sent it back and they sent a brand new pack back to me.

Not to hijack the thread or anything, but what are the best nimh battery packs?-

id say that GP's are very good. Nice truck, must be fun to bash with. Whats wrong with the ib's sooo many problems.?

When those batteries melted down they were hissing and smoking. They were still VERY hot 10 minutes after the incident.
I was "told" the batteries must have shorted on the metal chassis even though they had battery wrap on them. I dont buy that story. I wasn't offered any help from the place I purchased them from either. I wont say who it was, but we all have purchased from em :010: Eventually, I was offered a replacement pack at cost and I was pleased with that resolution because NO help was offered from the original seller.
My max really tears it up. It sure is fun and at times frustrating building one up, but not even close to the frustration of nitro. Been there done that:035:

I've seen pics of several melted NiMH cells. Maybe the cell's shrinkwrap wore away where it was touching the other cell (from constant vibration) and ended up shorting?

That is exactly what happened to mine BrianG. The shrink just wore off, from sliding a bit to much, and it shorted on my aluminum pede chassis.

Nice truck man! I can say that I never bought batts from them then if you got no assistance with that issue. Also, you may want to put some type of padding on the chassis or the batts, you may run it that problem again, fyi...
Again, nice truck! Love the body!

even if some cells have failed i think IB's are best.
but i run gp's or lipo.
cuz if i go IB i need new charger bla bla bla,...
but yeah, all the pro's race ib's.