What extreme things have you done to support your RC hobby?

[durok]

Originally Posted by mikebecher

I almost forgot about all the crap I put together in Google Docs:
Rock Crawler Basics
Axial Vehicle Comparison
Tire Spreadsheet
Speed Calculator Worksheet
Build Sheet

And not to mention my crazy QR code gate check in hack:
Gate check-in via smartphone

I nominate MikeBecher's spreadsheets for a sticky!

I have saved them as links, but if newer members were all able to be made aware of them more easily upon arrival to this site....

...There would be less repeat questions posted here!

Trouble was, every time he posted a new one, I could only give 1 "like".

[Mirkinator]

1. Graduate High school
2. Get job
3. Buy RC Cars
4. Go to College
5. Use loans to buy moar RC cars
6. Graduate College
7. Buy even moar RC cars and plan to sell them for kids college

[durok]

^^^ I like your post, however I can't resist this wisecrack - Are they gonna learn how to teach you how to spell "more" correctly in college?

[Mike Flea]

^ You're lucky this is the Newbie thread

[OSRC]

I turned 1/3 of my house into an RC workshop....it's the basement - it's dirty, spiderwebby, and damp at times....but it's my favorite room in the house.

[alexleblanc]

I spend the equivalent of a nice car payment per month to fuel my obsession with the hobby.

[WHITE-TRASH]

I've sold most of my 1:1 offroad stuff to buy crawler parts. 90% of my non crawler stuff is gone for the same reason. Just Sunday I made a nearly 300 mile round trip to some fantastic rocks to play for a few hours. I do that once a month or so and play locally the rest of the time.

[ROWDY RACING]

The Violator offered me a BJ for some tires before.

[Vagos2]

Made my 3.5 year old son go crying on his mother cause he wants a proper model crawler instead of his toy one.... hehehehe but but honey we can't break his heart!!! So I am bringing my second build to life now (actually the first serious one..)

[CM9000]

I bought a house so I could have room for my rc's. but I need to knock 2 walls down if I want better organization. right about now.. my basement floor is filled with boxes of parts and cars.

I could just sell everything I don't use anymore and just keep the crawlers and race rigs I actually use.

[betty]

So crazy! You just made 300 miles by yourself?

Originally Posted by WHITE-TRASH

I've sold most of my 1:1 offroad stuff to buy crawler parts. 90% of my non crawler stuff is gone for the same reason. Just Sunday I made a nearly 300 mile round trip to some fantastic rocks to play for a few hours. I do that once a month or so and play locally the rest of the time.

Admirable! I would never have courage like you.

Originally Posted by WHITE-TRASH

Yup. It was kind of a spur of the moment trip this time so I just rolled solo. I'll usually give my buddies a good enough heads up that at least 1 will go with me. It's a huge area clear full of lines, pretty much every boulder has at least 1 killer line or 10, it's pretty epic.

I really didn't take any pics last time but the trip last month still had a bunch of snow hiding a lot of it. There is easily 20x's this just by the road.

[Pat M]

Ben made us have Nationals in Entiat WA. and now i'm in charge of doing signs,banners,stickers,artstuff galore. Good thing that i'm a graphic designer and work at a print shop.

[ColdFox]

Originally Posted by OSRC

I turned 1/3 of my house into an RC workshop....it's the basement - it's dirty, spiderwebby, and damp at times....but it's my favorite room in the house.

That's heaven

[nightcrawler48]

Originally Posted by OSRC

I turned 1/3 of my house into an RC workshop....it's the basement - it's dirty, spiderwebby, and damp at times....but it's my favorite room in the house.

Excellent. I have an 8 ft. x 6 ft. corner in my wife's "art room". At least that's what I was allowed in the beginning. Inch by inch I've been slowly expanding that. Either she hasn't noticed or she's not prepared to bring it up for discussion yet. I'm okay with that.

[cloudswimmer]

Originally Posted by betty

What extreme things have you done to support your RC hobby? Let's see how diverse we are.

Well about 5 years ago I sold my very expensive DSLR camera (Canon 5DmkII) to buy the even more expensive Nikon DSLR that was to be released a month or two latter. I got tired of waiting for the camera to get to stores and ended up blowing the wad of cash on RC Crawling stuff, and went back to shooting my film cameras

[WHITE-TRASH]

Originally Posted by betty

So crazy! You just made 300 miles by yourself?

Yup. It was kind of a spur of the moment trip this time so I just rolled solo. I'll usually give my buddies a good enough heads up that at least 1 will go with me. It's a huge area clear full of lines, pretty much every boulder has at least 1 killer line or 10, it's pretty epic.

I really didn't take any pics last time but the trip last month still had a bunch of snow hiding a lot of it. There is easily 20x's this just by the road.

Originally Posted by betty

Admirable! I would never have courage like you.

No big deal, I'm a truck driver so 300 miles is just another afternoon.

[durok]

Well, I did quit cold turkey after 30 years of smoking, but after 3 years I started again. Much harder now...

[WHITE-TRASH]

Quiting is easy, just stop buying them. It fawking sucks for a bit but it's sooo worth it. I quit cold turkey 11 1/2 years ago. I still want one most every day but now it's all about the personal resolve to not throw this run away.

[Alexander_0_1]

Just sold a pair of late model catterpillar 631c scrapers. I'll use a large portion of it for RC stuff.

[Rumpelhardt]

RC cars are my hobby. My Mustang and guns are my addictions.