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Venom Pro Charger Ultimate
Venom has another new charger and this time it’s a fancy one. The Venom Pro Charger Ultimate DC Multi Charger has many features that high-end users expect. As the name implies it is a DC only charger that can charge multiple types of batteries, including LiPos, LiFes, NiMHs, and Lead Acid. It’s capable of up to 10 amps of charing [...]
Venom Easy Balance LiPo Charger makes charging and balancing…
Venom thinks that all these super complicated chargers are overrated. So they decided to simple it up a tad with their new Easy Balance LiPo Charger. To start with this new charger is made only to charge 2s – 4s LiPos, no other chemistries are supported to complicate things. Simpling it up a little more, they’ve made only one thing [...]
Kershaw Designs Gen 2 Brushless System for 1/10 scale
Despite all appearances Kershaw Designs is not just obsessesed with 1/5 scale brushless conversions. They also offer plenty of stuff for other scales. One of their newest products is the Gen 2 Brushless System for 1/10 scale vehicles. The Gen 2 ESC will support up to 3S Lipo or 4 – 9 cell NiMHs. The Gen 2 motors are available [...]
Kershaw Designs expands line of Mod 1.5 pinions
Kershaw Designs loves them some brushless converted 5Bs and 5Ts and to prove it they’ve expanded their line of Mod 1.5 pinions that mesh with the stock spur gears on the Baja Fives. The full line now includes 12 – 20 tooth 8mm bore steel pinions and 14 – 20 tooth 10mm bore hardened steel pinions. Prices are $14 for [...]
Team Associated Multi Tool V2
There’s no such thing as having too many tools. Unless you have to carry them all around. Team Associated has created a way to help you lighten your load with their new Stamped Multi Tool V2. This new version is now compatible with all the V2 shocks that Associated is putting on all of their new kits. It will also [...]
R/C Around the Web - Opening the Crowd Sourcing Paradigm Shi…
Photo of the Week:Bridge Crossing by Pah co chu puk If you’ve found a great link, photo, or video out there in the last week, feel free to drop us a line about it to brian AT bigsquidrc.com. Put “Around the Web” in the subject line to help us sort it from all the hundreds of other emails we get. Giveaway: [...]
Pro-Line Limited Edition Pit Bag
When it comes time to pack up the r/c stuff and haul it all to a bash spot, some people choose the plastic tote, others grab the old duffel bag, and then there’s those like me that just throw everything in the back of the truck and hope they don’t lose anything. A better solution for all though would [...]
Pro-Line officially licensed Jeep Comanche bodies
Those lovely gents at Pro-Line have some more paraphernalia for you Jeep addicts. The Jeep Comanche light truck is finally getting it’s just deserts and has been faithfully reproduced in crystal clear polycarbonate. Two versions are available, one specifically for the Axial SCX10 Trail Honcho and one for every other 12.3″ wheelbase rock crawler. Both versions of the body are [...]
Pro-Line PL-C Floor Pan for Axial Trail Honcho
Pro-Line is all about the scalers now-a-days. Licensed bodies, detailed interiors and floor pans, and all that jazz. The Axial Trail Honcho is a kit that is very popular with scale builders and as such Pro-Line has taken to making a lot of their scaler products compatible with it. Their PL-C Floor Pan is now available for the Trail Honcho [...]
Tamiya USA hosting F1 build contest
Scale modelers grab your hobby knives and warm up your airbrush compressors. Tamiya USA is holding a Formula 1 build contest. Two classes are available, plastic models and r/c models, so take your pick and start building. Entries will be accepted via email from August 18th to September 25th. Tamiya is offering up some great prizes to the winners. In the [...]
Upgrade RC End of Summer Sale starts today
Upgrade RC is, again, holding their End of Summer Sale. Starting today and lasting for a limited time you can take 25% off of their whole line of skins for your r/c cars, transmitters, and other gear. You can also get the same deal on their line of custom casual apparel for your body and head. All you have to [...]
FCC Proposing Changes to Part 95 of Rules
🙁 Despair, Inc. Here’s a bit of important info for our US audience. The FCC is proposing revisions to their Part 95 – Personal Radio Services rules that govern the use of many non-corporate civilian radio frequencies. The frequencies that a lot of us in the R/C hobby use regularly (27 MHz, 72 MHz, and 75 MHz bands being [...]
R/C Around the Web - Two in one week? What IS THIS MADNESS?!…
Photo of the Week: Traxxas Slash 4X4 PE by forum member PontiacGT201 So Brian found where Cubby hid the closet key and I’m free now, so here’s my version of the Around The Web. Build Log: Freeze’s Savage Flux “Frostbyte II” Review Roundup:HPI Mini Trophy Truck Review here @ Big Squid. RCTrax MiniQLO Rock Crawler @ MyRCBox.com Duratrax Evader DT @ Ultimate RCVideo of the Week:
RC4WD XR4 2.4 GHz, 4-channel budget radio
Hot chick not included… 🙁 RC4WD is more than just some awesome looking tires. They do radios too. Their new XR4 radio is a purpose built 4-channel, 2.4 GHz radio for competition crawlers and scalers alike. The third and fourth channels on the XR4 are controlled by 3-way switches. They’ll allow you to setup a DIG unit, winch, lights, or any [...]
Official: Losi Mini Rock Crawler Pro
Well it appears our corporate policy of willful defiance of The Man has forced Losi to show their hand. Only a day after our posting of the ad revealing the Mini Rock Crawler Pro, Losi has gone and officially announced it. We’ve already outlined some of the new features yesterday, but now we know what some of the other [...]
