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Post by GuidoK » Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:29 pm

I think I was 12 or 14 years old or so when I used that boat. Bought it 2nd hand (I think it was already an older boat back then) and fixed it up with my dad.
I thought it was always interesting to control. But the nitro engine was a hassle. I converted it to electro back then but motors and batteries back then werent powerful enough to make it spectacular like nitro did. Now that would be no problem with lipo/brushless motors.
See this vid on youtube
https://youtu.be/Q3qGccqJ2OM
plenty of power by the looks of it.
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Post by bluespit » Sun Nov 05, 2017 12:20 am

I’ve done the lot. RC cars boats and planes, petrol, electric and nitro.

Boats were a pain as I always ended up in the lake when they conked out.

Won a few trophies with 1/8 nitro gran prix back in the 80s, but that became too expensive so I bought a motorbike!

Used to do exhibition flying with a 1/4 scale ultimate and 52cc zenoh petrol engine. Knife edge loops were my thing.
now I'm about to have more time I've suddenly got less toys to play with!

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Post by slick » Sun Nov 05, 2017 8:39 am

My son and I race Losi 5Ts off road nationally ( 5th scale petrol )
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Porsche 987 Boxster 3.4S
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Post by groovy_hippy » Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:01 am

slick wrote: Sun Nov 05, 2017 8:39 am My son and I race Losi 5Ts off road nationally ( 5th scale petrol )
That’s cool - I thought 1/5 LSOR had kind of flopped in the UK? Which tracks do you go to? There was one near me - Notts Derby off-road, but I think they only do 1/10 and 1/8 off road now :( I remember Nene Valley in Northants was a good one!
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Post by TonyP » Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:30 am

I used to race 1/8th IC (nitro) back in the 80's, mostly locally at Bournemouth & Southampton & occasionally Mendip, Bournemouth & Southampton are long gone but Mendip is still going strong.

Happy days, I give up the 1/8 IC as it was hugely expensive & definitely not because I was cr@p at it :wink: , most of the top guys were sponsored & so there was quite a bit of hand-me-down cars, spares & radio gear going on.

I also did 1/10th electric at a local church hall for a while, thinking back now what a pain it was, we used to roll out carpets every night, mark out the track & then at the end of the evening roll & keep the carpets under the staging, we also used to wreak of the special tyre goo that we used to apply to give us more traction.

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