Good news for the Twin Force

[Trac95ker]

I read, on this site that Kyosho was going to stop making the Twin Force. Thats wrong!!! Kyosho's 20 yr. contract with Great plains has expired. They felt that they were'nt getting the exposure and product support they deserved. Kyosho reevaluated their goals and decided to open a headquarters in Ca. Its been open for five days! You can buy direct from them or go through a vendor. The headquarters get parts directly from Japan.

The Twin Force will be offered as a RTR and they still have the kits. Kyoshos policy is to manufacter parts for 5 to 7 yrs after they stop making the product.

[syco133]

Yep thats true they are now kyosho USA.I had a talk with a couple of people from kyosho and they said thats why if you look at the rc racing scene they are coming back strong and to look for more new stuff coming out.

[snakeman]

Got this from great plains today when asking for any form of a store list that sells Kyosho since tower is out of everything I need.

".....Also as of April 1,2005 we no longer are the North American distributor
for Kyosho as they have actually set up their own Kyosho America
service center and distribution center in California.
What this means is we no longer handle service and support issues for
them at this time.
Listed below is the information for Kyosho America and you could
possibly contact them for their stock status of the parts in question.

Kyosho America
20322 Valencia Circle
Lake Forest,CA 92630

Main Phone number :(949)454-8854
Customer Service Toll Free:1-800-716-4518
......

Found a guy (thanks a_vdk) that will have the front hub carriers that I have been NEEDING for a while now in 2 weeks. Tower keeps moving the date back and back and back...

[Trac95ker]

Did you snap one? I rolled down a hill and broke one.

[snakeman]

Yeah, I broke the left front clean off on the "ears" of the front axle. I have the CAD drawings to build a metal front, but to do it right, its going to cost almost 100 bones! More than I want to spend.

If you want the CAD drawings for the pieces I can send them to you! You'll need 4 3" pieces of 1" o.d. .250 wall tubing, and about 1 sqft of 4 mm thick metal (or aluminum, I chose metal for ease of use). Them have a machine shop do the milling while you do the cutting.

Jeff

[Trac95ker]

I don't want to spend that either. There was 4 on e-bay but I missed it. Hopefully I can get one before the 16th. We're having a get together.