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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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Arrma Granite Voltage Brushless Upgrade How To

Granite Voltage Brushless

The Arrma RC Granite Voltage proved to be a great entry level RC truck when we reviewed it. The kit includes everything you need to get started in RC and most importantly, get into RC successfully. We’ve put a lot …

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May 2018 Video Question & Answer Help

May 2018 Video Question

Every once in a while, it dawns on us: “Hey! Grab some viewers questions, turn on the camera and answer them!” And that is just what we did here. We grabbed a few questions posted in some of the comments …

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How To Install New Electronics in Your RC Vehicle

How To Install New Electronics

Getting new gear, be it a new servo or an upgraded aluminum suspension part, can be one of the most exciting parts of the RC journey, quickly removing the old parts, preparing for the install of the new part, and finally getting to try out your new parts.

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How To Install Your Servos Properly

How To Install Your Servos

Few vehicles put more stress, wear and tear on a servo than an 1/8-scale buggy, truggy or monster truck. First of all, they’re larger and heavier than just about any other car or truck (1/5-scale not included), second, they’re run in some of the worst conditions imaginable and third, they have to withstand the occasional cartwheel off of a big jump.

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Fix My RC – Drivetrain/ Transmission Pt 2

Fix My RC

Fix My RC! Why does my RC have wheel wobble? We have received a number of messages about this issue and in this video we show you some of the probable causes and fixes. This video also talks about why …

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How to Set the Gear Mesh on Your RC Car or Truck

Set the Gear Mesh

The driveline of an RC car or truck is truly a work of art. Whether you’re dealing with the mesh of a clutch bell or pinion gear and spur or a ring and pinion gear inside a transmission casing, your vehicle’s gears are all about transferring power as efficiently as possible while withstanding the strain placed upon them.

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Fix My RC – Drivetrain/ Transmission Pt 1

Fix My RC - Drivetrain

Welcome to our first video in a new series we’re working on dedicated to help you diagnose and repair problems on your radio control car or truck. In this series we’re going to talk about many different parts of your …

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10 Things You Need to Know Before You Get Into RC

Before You Get Into RC

With any new hobby information overload is a huge problem with people firing off recommendations and advice right and left. While everyone has good intentions, sometimes it can be quite overwhelming and frankly scary. I strongly believe that the radio …

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RC Soldering Basics – What You Need + How To Solder Wires & Connectors

RC Soldering Basics

Having to solder wires and connectors is common in the radio control hobby. At some point you’ll probably want to upgrade your speed control or motor and find out, you’ll need soldering equipment to do so. Many run from this …

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Simple RC Body Painting Tips & Tricks!

Body Painting Tips

We’ve been working on a project truck for awhile and the Pro-Line Racing Ford Bronco body with trail cage we ordered for it just arrived. Since we had to paint the body, Greg decided to turn on the camera and …

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Seal up your sensored motor

Many drivers are bashers only, and have rigs set up for all conditions. I have such a rig in my fleet and folks are always amazed at my scaler’s ability to take on waterlogged trails and water crossings with ease.

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Upgrade Your Traxxas Slash Axles – Pro-Line Racing Pro-Spline HD Axle Install

Traxxas Slash Pro-Line HD Axles

So it’s that time, you’ve added more power to your Traxxas Slash and you’re noticing the stock slider shafts twisting or worse, the universals keep popping out of the yoke. It happens, but luckily there are plenty of upgrade options …

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Don’t Make These 5 RC Car Maintenance Mistakes

Vehicle maintenance is a task that often gets 'put off' for one reason or another. However, to keep our vehicles in top condition, preventative maintenance is something we all must do between enjoyable sessions of racing or running our vehicles! Here are a few tips that will keep you running your vehicles rather than working on them.

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Drivetrain Maintenance

Part of owning an RC vehicle is performing maintenance to keep it running at its absolute best. Wrenching on your ride is actually one of the aspects that makes RC so much fun. Not only are you keeping your car operating at its best, but it also gets you familiar with how it works.

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Installing Gear Head RC Lights on the Axial Yeti XL

I really enjoy my Axial Yeti XL and wherever I take it, it constantly gathers a crowd. People seem to love its enormous size as well as its alarming amount of power! While I don’t run it on 6S much anymore (it was scaring the local children as well as many small animals), I figured it was time to start investing in some hop-ups to bolster its wow factor even more.

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