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stum · 02:24 AM

Nice job tonight holding me off.. Well I just did some late night repairs.. No wonder this buggy was a mess out there, LOL, I had 2 completely shot/seized bearings and 4 that were almost there (grinding). One of my shock spring base retainers was off as well.. heh
Man I blew that race tonight 1st to last ;) The pisser is that other kid is slower than me I should have beat him, but I just couldn't keep her 'decent' w/ all those issues. I'm happy I found the bad bearings though as it was taking its toll on my ESC and batteries... one of my packs has a bad cell now, I'll prolly run it for 5min qualifiers but it can't ever be run to LVC again... not w/o some real issues. May have to try a flightmax 4s 5k, hard to pass up the price. The next choice battery would be a SMC 14.8v 5400 but those are 2x as much (170). Ahh well, can't race on Sunday (wedding anniv) so I'll see you next Thursday provided it doesn't rain.

Did the repair on my truggy's wires as well.. should be in much better shape moving forward :) LOL I had the entire field by more than lap when she quit! That would have been an easy win ;(

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stum RC-Monster Aluminum Offline Posts: 603 Join Date: Jan 2008	06.26.2009, 02:23 AM Nice job tonight holding me off.. Well I just did some late night repairs.. No wonder this buggy was a mess out there, LOL, I had 2 completely shot/seized bearings and 4 that were almost there (grinding). One of my shock spring base retainers was off as well.. heh Man I blew that race tonight 1st to last ;) The pisser is that other kid is slower than me I should have beat him, but I just couldn't keep her 'decent' w/ all those issues. I'm happy I found the bad bearings though as it was taking its toll on my ESC and batteries... one of my packs has a bad cell now, I'll prolly run it for 5min qualifiers but it can't ever be run to LVC again... not w/o some real issues. May have to try a flightmax 4s 5k, hard to pass up the price. The next choice battery would be a SMC 14.8v 5400 but those are 2x as much (170). Ahh well, can't race on Sunday (wedding anniv) so I'll see you next Thursday provided it doesn't rain. Did the repair on my truggy's wires as well.. should be in much better shape moving forward :) LOL I had the entire field by more than lap when she quit! That would have been an easy win ;( 8ight-e (B&T) MMM - Hyperion Lipos Ofna Hyper SC 10 Pro - Medusa 4800kv Last edited by stum; 06.26.2009 at 02:24 AM.