Anyone near Tampa?
 

I see most of the people active on this forum are in the Sanford area or norther Florida. Is there anyone near Tampa? I've been talking with All Scaled Out in Weekie Wachee and will be getting up to his place soon, but I know quite a few places near Tampa that would make great spots for trail riding.

Right now I have a losi MRC pro, but I'm in the planning stages for a scaler. Just not sure if I want to build one out of the MRC or go with the standard Axial.

i ordered the new dingo kit and ill let u know what i think when it gets here but as of now its still not here :evil: been sence saturday sence i ordered it

My thing is I hate to buy a kit, then cut the frame to change the wheelbase, or move everything around to fit a scale interior in it.

My friend swears he has a few sets of TLT axles, and we should know exactly what he has in a few weeks. I may just get a set of axles from him and settle on a body so I can start building a frame and going from there.

Im buiding a scaler out of the mrc pro right now, waiting on some parts to finish. Im using the tcs l trail chassis, which is not a direct bolt on but will work with a little mod. ill get you some pics shortly.

New Red in Ocala is having an event in January, Ocala is not to far from you.

Rick, I would love to see pics of your chassis and body setup.

I see you are in Deland. You're very lucky as that seems to be the crawler capital of Florida. I have family in Deland (cousin used to work at Stetson) and have friends in Debary. In fact I even was at the Sanford boat ramp a year or two ago for a competition. Good times.

tampa rc track has a pretty cool crawler set up and yea im very interested to see ricks set up and i have a scx10 and a losi mrc i love them both

Deland is far from the crawler capital of Fl... I think that would have to be Gville or way down south :ror:

It does seem like there's something of a scaler revival in the area though - lots of stuff startin pop up all over the state.

I'm in St Pete just picked up a venom creeper and plan on building a scale f350 crewcab.

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Im in Largo/Seminole. I have a scaler and know 2 others with scalers. We have a good place to run over here in Pinellas. I would love to try some other places, but dont know of any.

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I ordered a motor for my MRC/scaler project and USPS lost it so I'm out of commission for a while (old motor can't be used). So I have to wait for them to find this one or officially declare it lost to see what my options are. But once I get a motor I'll be glad to meet up with people at the different spots around here.

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I'm in Clearwater, by the St. Pete airport, where do you run your scalers? I have 2 other crawlers as well, been looking for a good place to go around here.

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Well, looks like a good little group is forming. Hopefully we can start meeting up.

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I'd love to find a decent spot to meet everyone. There used to be a group that went to the Skyway bridge but nobody goes anymore. I have a LCC, a super, and a scaler so if there is a spot somebody knows about that would be good for any of those let me know!

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Pm'd you, don't slow down

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We have a comp at the Skyway at least once a season.
Some nice lines there "thumbsup"

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Once a season? :roll: I was looking for something a little more regular than that. :ror:

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I know this is kind of an old thread, but im in the middle of building a independent suspension 2.2 rig. Its more for trails and light rock crawling, its not the greatest thing in the world, its not the prettiest thing in the world, but....ill run it lol I`ll join a get together some time. Im only in the Lutz area. "thumbsup"

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I'm right down the road from you in Odessa.

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found another place in Pinellas County this weekend. Was fun, might not be fore everyone but would definitely kill a few hours out of a day. plus there is a great spot for rock crawlers, which I dont have.

Here is a quick video of my truck running around.

SCX10 Honcho playing in the water - YouTube

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That looks like a cool spot. I guess I need to work on waterproofing HAHA.

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waterproofing is easy. just get a waterproof esc, brushed motor and silicon your receiver box shut. thats all I did, so far so good. oh and make sure you have no holes in your wheels...dont want your tires filling up with water and ruining your foams.

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January 8th I plan to go out trailing/crawling. Would love to have some more folk join in. I have two pretty good places for scalers over here in Pinellas. I start pretty early, 8:30-9am. I plan to hit up two different places, second place that I go that day is where you would need to be waterproofed. this location also has a excellent crawling area with large rock areas.

anyone want to join, pm me.

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I would love to but I will be on a cruise and won't have a motor in my crawler yet :(

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Well Dave_in_florida, let me know if you want to and we can get together some day. I should have my 2.2 project running and possibly be buying another 2.2 scaler hopefully also all this weekend. I wouldnt mind getting together with some Tampa area based people that are into crawling. "thumbsup"

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Aweasome. I found a motor at the hobbytown in Brandon so I'm headed out there now. I'll let you guys know when I'm back in town so we can set something up.

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Me and 2 friends took some rigs to the Tampa Indoor R/C track. For all of my comments check out their thread in this forum. It was very fun and challenging.

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scott just likes to play in the water like every other kid who got told to kep his rcs clean. had fun killing hoss with you today scott. going to be built better and stronger now..

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When are you going out again for crawling Scotty-J? I live in Largo off of East Bay Dr!

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i dont think I'll be able to go till the 22nd. PM me next week and I'll give you a definite answer.

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Hey guys, moved back to Clearwater and finally got my stuff out of storage. Glad to have all my RCs back and I'm in the process of getting my hobby area set up and going to start reviving all my stuff. Once I get everything up and running I'd love to meet up for some crawling.

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Im game in case anyone wants to meet up some time. I just got my 1.9 scaler up and running and im working on getting all the details worked out with my 2.2 project, so im game also! "thumbsup"

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Hey guys,Im in Sarasota and been thinking of opening a indoor crawler park..any inputs

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1. price to get in
2. size of indoor squre footage
3 and i would say if your building it for CRAWLERS make it challenging so that they will come back for more..

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X2, You'd want it big and super challenging. If it's something you could
make in your backyard they're not going to come back. Especially if they're
paying for it. :mrgreen:

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No,this isn't going to be a back yard course..A warehouse about 6000 sqt or so.In Sarasota.Mix of rock comp and trails.

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We ben hitting the spot off 66st and BryanD RD, Bill and I and another friend all have Wraiths and ben havin' a feking blast with them.
Were prob going out again next Sun, why dont you guys meet us out there ?

Bob Zombie's first run - YouTube
HOSS - YouTube

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I'm going to try and revive this thread and see if you guys are still around. After a couple months of getting a schedule down, wife finding a job, and getting my RC's going again I'd like to find a place and group to go with. Let's get a roll call going and see who is in the area now and let's get something going. "thumbsup"

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I'm subscribing to this thread so I get notified when you guys respond. :mrgreen:

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I'm in a similar boat. I finished school, got a job making decent money, so I'm ready to play. I have a stock MRC for now, but want to either build it into a scaler or buy an Axial and transform it into a scaler.

BTW, my job is in Clearwater (Belleair Rd) but I work overnights, so we may be able to figure out a compromise. In another thread on this forum, there's a guy that is moving to Clearwater soon and he wants to build some things in his back yard, plus he owns an online hobby shop, so that's a plus :D

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Haha that's funny. I work an overnight shift too. 11pm till 7am, go home and sleep till 12-2ish. The wife started working and I will have some afternoons free while she is working. I saw the other thread about that other guy, but not till June or so? I actually just listed my LCC for sale because I haven't used it in over a year. Maybe I'll hold onto it for now. I also have a super and a scaler.