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Meng Tzu once said, “When a man’s finger is not like those of other people, he knows to feel dissatisfied; but if his mind be not like that of other people, he does not know to feel dissatisfaction. This is called ignorance of the relative importance of things.” With that, we are on to the first letter of the week… ========== “hi [...]
Yet another week, yet more questions…. ========== “Hi Cubby! My friends and I have really gotten into the new Losi Micros Rally/SCT. These things are great on lipo! Since the batteries are so small (using FlightMax 350s – perfect fit!) we were wondering if we could make a harness to charge two of them at the same time. We’d set the charger at [...]
After missing last weeks edition (I was slack’n as usual), I present you with this weeks best questions (with rather iffy answers). ========== “Greetings, I was amazed at the live feed setup that you had at the expo and was thrilled to view it. This was a terrific idea and hats off to your team for pulling off such an endeavor. Thanks [...]
I typically post shorter questions that we have received, just to save people time, but I’ll start off this week with a long one. Enjoy! 🙂 ========== regarding your article ‘Pay Up Suckers! ‘ I read your article on local tracks organizing trophy races to keep afloat and completely agree with your observation on the growing trend of racers domination in this hobby. [...]
A teacher once told me that “there is no such thing as a stupid question”. Well folks, I beg to differ… ========== Cubby my charger keeps telling me i have a connection error every time i try to charge my lipo and my guess is that there is a bad connection inside the pack. It’s a Turnigy 3S. Can i repair my [...]
Here I am, still saving the world from gasholes, one at a time… ========== Bigsquid I am having a problem keeping the clutchbell bearings in my OFNA Pirate from blowing up. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? I like the new look of your website. Earl Cubby– Ofna Pirate eh? Damn those things have huge tires. Tell ya what, here’s your problem- it’s nitro, and [...]
I am just now getting back from a delightful weekend in Colorado watching the Red Bull Motocross Of Nations. Rc racing doesn’t have anything like it, but in moto, one weekend a year the top 3 riders from different countries race against each other (on different tracks across the globe each year) to determine which team/country is the best. America [...]
Has it already been another week? Read on as I go through all our mail and grab a couple for the BigSquidRC front page. Here’s what I yanked this week… ========== “Dear Bigsquid, After hours of researching on-line, I decided to buy a new HPI Vorza. My question is should I go with a 4S lipo or a 6S lipo? Max” Cubby– Nice pick on [...]
Every week we get tons of email, and every week I pick the two that are easiest to answer and use them here! Hehehe ========== “Hello, I was wondering whatever happened to the HPI Hellfire that was supposed to be the next big monster truck for HPI? Patrice from Québec” Cubby– What’s going on up there in the land of hockey, curling, donuts, fries w/ mayo, [...]
You shoot us your questions, I give careless advice…. 🙂 ========== “What is your favorite brand of nitro fuel? Karl F.” Cubby– Ummmm….. I’m not sure where you got any kind of indication that I like nitro in any way, shape or form. Nitro sucks, horribly bad in fact, and is nothing but a PITA. I’ve stated before that I’d like to drive nitro, [...]
Is it just me or am I a day late with this as well? 🙂 Let’s get on with your questions/comments…. ========== “I’ve really enjoyed your battery and charger shootouts. It’s nice to see someone take a somewhat scientific approach to this stuff. Too many people make crazy assumptions that if you pay 3X as much for something, that it must be 3x [...]
Yup, it’s Thursday, hell ya, so here’s some of your questions…. ========== I was a little surprised when I compare the average voltage under load from the second shootout and compared them to the first shootout. In both cases you reported using the same discharger set to the same current. According to your results all but one of the batteries in the [...]
Ya know, I still can’t get over that rc airplane hitting a full scale plane video that Brian posted last night….. Anyways, here’s this weeks ASK Cubby. ========== Brian, Why does Cubby hate Associated so much? I have been a loyal Associated driver since 1993 and have always thought their cars were the best. Just tell him to back it off on Associated [...]
It’s Thursday again already? Oh my does time fly around this joint….. ========== Cub Reporter When is Losi going to put out something decent for a change? Hot D*ck Willy Cubby– Great question, I think? Ok, everybody knows Losi isn’t really “Losi” anymore. So to properly re-word your question, it would be “When is Horizon going to put out something decent again under Losi badging?”. Well, [...]
You ask the questions, we do our best to make up some kind of ridiculous answers…….. =============== was up i need some help with a delima im looking to get a tamiya clod buster and i do not like the stock wiper speed control that it comes with and was woundering what type would be best as an esc would be -simon hello brian ive [...]
