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Speed Checker Check-In
Mini4WD cars have a lot of accessories available for them, but my favourite is this, the Speed Checker. It’s a little pocket dynamometer, so you can take your 1/24-scale toy cars to the dyno and see just how fast they are without all the confusion of a track.
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Tandy Turbo Beetle ESC swap
The Tandy Turbo Beetle’s original Atcomi electronics merge a radio receiver and motor speed controller all in one very dense single-sided board. In this part of the project, I’ll figure out what each wire does, and install a Quicrun 1060 ESC alongside a Flysky radio receiver to get this car’s motor usable again.
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Starting a Stampede
First working machine posted on this blog! This story is all about re-powering my Traxxas Stampede 2WD, which was given to me alongside a big bin of parts. Some of those parts are the right ones, and some of them are the wrong ones. The only way to figure out which is which is to do the world’s greasiest 3D jigsaw puzzle.
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Re-tiring a retired Tandy Turbo Beetle
I had one of these neat Tandy Beetles when I was a kid. The combination of Baja Bug-esque styling and fun big tires is a winner. Recently, I found a much sadder one on eBay, bereft of its transmitter, tires, battery door, and suspension. Let’s figure out how to cobble this thing back together into a running car.
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Rising Trigger Revival
Getting some of the late-90s Mini 4WD bodies, such as the Rising-Trigger in the Aero Mini 4WD series, can be really expensive. Luckily, a lot of those bodies have been reproduced by Daxing, and you can buy their kits from AliExpress. The only problem is that those kits show up smooshed once in awhile.
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