New Winter Build - Associated RC12 R5 Pan Car
Discussion
So browising one of my favourite Euro RC shops last week I came acros this Associated RC12R5 Team Edition Pan Car for not much more than £110,such a bargain I bought it!
There’s method in my madness, as my local RC Car Club runs 1/12 Pan Car races during the winter, so I thought why not.
My other 1/8 car build has stalled as parts are missing, so I started this on Sunday.
Well I have just loved putting this kit together, the beauty of the machined alloy and carbon parts and the attention to detail is just fantastic.
So much so that I did most of the remaining parts tonight and it’s almost finished.
Warning this thread is going to be picture heavy.
Factory pictures to start with!
There’s method in my madness, as my local RC Car Club runs 1/12 Pan Car races during the winter, so I thought why not.
My other 1/8 car build has stalled as parts are missing, so I started this on Sunday.
Well I have just loved putting this kit together, the beauty of the machined alloy and carbon parts and the attention to detail is just fantastic.
So much so that I did most of the remaining parts tonight and it’s almost finished.
Warning this thread is going to be picture heavy.
Factory pictures to start with!
cholo said:
Nice!
These things go like s
t off a shovel.
Are you truing those tyres?!
Cheers!These things go like s
t off a shovel.Are you truing those tyres?!
That’s the one tool I don’t have in my collection, so to start with will run them as is, it’s only a cheapy set to start off with, to see what compound works best, I can’t recall what these are I think 30 shore?.
Also sorry for no more pic updates, the motor issue has stopped the build.
The motor is great and is mounted now, but I’ve realised the sensor cable to the brushless controller is too short, so need to order a longer one to get the ESC in the right position.
I’ve mmaged to get a new but cheap Spektrum receiver off eBay too, but only won it last night so it won’t be here for a few days I geuss.
Will, add those pictures when done..
Then it’s onto the dreaded painting of the body shell, the one thing I’ve never been good at, but will do my best to make,it look nice and. Bright!,
nigelpugh7 said:
Steering servo install next, and the first build issue, the servo saver included in the kit is for Airtonics ( Sanwa in the UK I think!), and the high speed metal geared Servo I bought is a different thread size!
Can't really say I know much about these things, just built a few Tamiya kits in the past, hence my question; What's a servo saver?Bookmarked...
Zombie said:
Can't really say I know much about these things, just built a few Tamiya kits in the past, hence my question; What's a servo saver?
Bookmarked...
Glad you liked it enough to bookmark it, sorry I’ve not done any other updates, work and kids have got in the way!Bookmarked...
That’s a good question, ie what’s a servo saver, but it really is as obvious as it sounds, it’s to save the servo, in the event of a crash.
As a lot of racing crashes are often front near side or off side corners at the front wheels, when traveling at over 50mph, the forces that hit the front wheels, Travel back up the steering arms directly into the servo, often stripping the gears.
That’s a bad thing of course, but perhaps more serious in the older servos that only had plastic gears, this one I have fittted has steel gears and a ball raced output shaft so should be stronger.
The servo saver is mounted on the servo output shaft, and has a coiled spring inside it, which allows it to “ absorb “ the shock of a crash, hopefully saving servo.
Here’s what i need.
https://corally.com/Import/Team-Corally-Servo-Save...
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