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12-24-2005, 08:41 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In the shop terrorising the cat with the heli.
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|  Another venture.
Been doing alot of net browsing lately and the rc drag cars have caught my eye. So im going to step out into a new venture and take it up a notch. Rc sand dragsters.  I have talked to some of the lhs owners and racers who run dirt and they say there would be a good interest on thier off weekends. We have 40 acres here on the farm so this spring we will start construction on a 66 foot sand strip, and hopefully start having comps in late april, as long as it doesnt keep me from missing a crawling comp  . Really looking forward to this. I have quite a few ideas for topfuel, funny car and 4WD jeep tube frames. First of the year I will start getting set up with some of the specialty parts manufacturers and distributers and put this into motion. The new site rcsanddragsters.com will be up mid january hopefully.
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12-24-2005, 08:47 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence.
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You just gave me an idea for that Tamiya WW body. Didn't want to make a crawler because it really isn't scale enough. It will make a nice dragger though.
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12-24-2005, 09:24 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In the shop terrorising the cat with the heli.
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Glad I could help. That will be $5 for sparking the idea.  Gotta pay for this new venture somehow. My son is almost out of college money with the tubewerks venture. |
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12-24-2005, 11:22 PM
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| MODERATOR™   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ohio
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And I thought RC Crawling was a small niche... Good luck, and it sounds awesome. |
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12-25-2005, 12:03 AM
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| Diggin' the new SCX10 II!  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Norcal
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I can't believe how this RC dragster thing is taking off so much. That is all I hear about lately.
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12-25-2005, 12:35 AM
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| owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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What type of motor are you going with? Motors wound for large burst currents would kick ***. The sky is the limit with the motor power if it is in bursts.
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12-25-2005, 05:35 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In the shop terrorising the cat with the heli.
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All the prototypes will be direct drive. Planning on running 7 to 10 turn motors in them with servo avtivated micro switches instead of speed controls. Running a cobalt or neo would be great but the people around here would go into sticker shock at the price. But a 7 turn motor on a direct drive rear end should interesting on a 66 foot run.
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