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Don’t Mess Up! – 5 Techniques To Apply Decals

5 Techniques To Apply Decals

Sure you can peel a decal off the sheet with your fingers and stick it to your newly painted body. Then you can look at your finger prints stuck to the adhesive of the decal for months to come. Don’t …

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10 RC Newbie Mistakes To Avoid

10 newbie mistakes

We’ve been in the RC hobby for a long time, no really, a looong time and have seen a lot of new people enter the hobby while hanging out at shops and tracks. Over the years we’ve seen common recurrences …

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Be Preppared To Pit – Here’s what you need for nitro racing pit stops

nitro racing pit stops

We’re getting ready for some ⅛ off-road nitro action and spent some time packing up a trackside pit bag with all the essentials needed to make tuning tweaks and trackside pit stops a breeze. Greg goes through what he personally …

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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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Heading to the Track? Remember to Have Fun and Don’t be a track tool

Have Fun

If you have ever been to the track, you’ve probably seen one. You know, the guy screaming “Rubbin’s racin!” at the top of his lungs as he t-bones an innocent buggy into the wall. Or that kid duct taped to …

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How Does A Radio System Work? – Get Into RC

Radio System Work

Everyone had a first day in RC… EVERYONE! In Episode 003 of our “Get Into RC” video series, we are going to give you an idea of how a basic radio system works. We’re going to talk about how the …

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Touch To Charge – Duratrax Onyx 260 Dual Touch Charger Video

Duratrax Onyx 260

It appears that choosing a charger is more difficult than choosing a new RC car nowadays. The selection of chargers available seems endless. So how do you pick one? Sure you look for features like charge rates and types of …

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Get To Know Your Radio – Get Into RC

Know Your Radio

Everyone had a first day in RC… EVERYONE! In Episode 002 of our “Get Into RC” video series, we are going to show you the anatomy of your basic radio system. Even though the radio (or transmitter) you may have …

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Today At RC Driver – RC Tool Set Overhaul – 4/19/17

RC Tool Set

Today in the RC Driver workshop… was a day dedicated to our RC Tool Set. Or, well at least hunting down our tools that have been scattered about during various project builds. Not only is having the right tools on hand …

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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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How To Power On/ Off Your First RC Car – Get Into RC

Power-Switch-Basics

Everyone had a first day in RC… EVERYONE! And it’s pretty safe to say nobody started off as a pro. Everyone had to learn about their new hobby, some learned from a friend and some learn on their own. And …

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Reminder: Subscribe to RC Driver on YouTube

RC Driver YouTube

We’ve been spending a lot more time behind the video camera lately and we’ve been posting  a lot of links to our YouTube videos here on rcdriver.com. We just wanted to send out a reminder to subscribe to our YouTube page …

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Mounting Bodies Is Easy… Seriously! – Dynamite EZ Body Post Marker Set.

Dynamite EZ Body Post Marker Set

Mounting bodies is one task in building an RC car that many people dread. But you don’t have to! If you’ve painted or purchased a painted body, you don’t have to worry about possibly ruining the finishing details of your …

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Power That Servo – Castle Creations BEC 2.0 Waterproof Voltage Regulator

Castle BEC 2.0

Some of the new top of the line servos on the market need increasing amounts of power to achieve their maximum performance. If the speed control or power source is not up to the task of feeding these power-hungry servos …

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How To Hop Up SCX10 Gear Swap – Robinson Racing Lightened Output Gear

Robinson Racing Axial SCX10 Gear Install

Axial’s SCX10 and SCX10 II are tough trucks on the rocks but we love to upgrade and in the video posted below we show you how to install a Robinson Racing Lightweight Output gear into the AX10 style transmission. This …

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