A chain of recent developments have been made concerning the RC truck.
Possibly THE most important is the simple fact that I have gotten a replacement carburetor for the engine and after bolting it in place, the engine started and ran on it's first crank and has been running properly ever since! I will post some videos soon, once I am able to take them.
Another important step has been the finding of proper axles, evidently as many as I want at VERY reasonable prices! The selection includes plain axles with a differential and sprocket as well as motorized axles from common "mobility scooters."
A co-worker of my father's has offered an RC transmitter and receiver pair as well as 4 servos for as little as $40. There may be an issue since the system is of the older AM band and may or may not work properly in the presence of electrical interference from the engine.
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About Me
- Blaise.B
- Augusta, Georgia, United States
- Born "Michael William Henry Renaud" on 28 January 1980, Mike was raised in a small town in Connecticut that even his own parents had never heard of. By the time he was 4 he was wearing glasses and was promised he would only need them until age 8, that, however is another story. On his 6th birthday, the NASA Space Craft "Challenger" disintegrated 73 seconds into its flight over the state of Florida killing 7 occupants including one Christa McAuliffe, a school teacher from Concord New Hampshire, but that is another story. At age 8, one of his infamous projects led to him cutting the last inch of his left thumb and thumbnail in half along the bone. This event in his life spawned the short lived nickname "3 Thumbs" as well as the phrase "...I F****D Up, BIG time!". THAT however is another story. Around age 13, he was the first student at his middle school to test the newly adopted Zero Tolerance Weapons Policy. He was grounded for 2 weeks. Don't ask. At 15, his older brother in trying to find something in common with him tried to teach him how to drive. Uncle Skip's Olds was never the same after that and neither was Dad's Courier pick-up. Again, don't ask.
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