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As the temperatures drop and more people start to head indoors, or if you must quarantine for few weeks there is no reason the RC fun has to stop. Luckily, the RC hobby has a wide verity of 1:24 scale rigs, from On-Road to Off-Road, even construction equipment. The Axial SCX24 is in my top 3 when it comes to [...]
This past weekend, my monster truck club Trigger King R/C ended our 2020 outdoor season. We barely got it in, as the forecast was jumping around all week. The final race of the year was held in 45 degree weather with heavy cloud cover. Despite being a chilly day, it was a lot of fun! I had the best racing day [...]
Last weekend Brian and I got to spend some time at a RC Swap Meet held at Crawler Canyon in Rockdale ILLINOIS. Proceeds of the event went to the Wounded Warrior Project so spending the day with a bunch of RC nuts and helping a good cause made for a perfect Sunday Funday! Surprisingly, this was my first RC swap [...]
I’m pretty much the last person that needs to tell ya’ll that 2020 isn’t exactly great. For me, it’s been the toughest year of my life. Emotionally and professionally. At some point here I’m going to write about one of those reasons- the loss of my dear Dad- but those words continue to be much too tough to write. You know [...]
Much like your favorite TV show, you probably have a YouTube Channel you like and visit often, BIG SQUID RC should be one of them too lol. The problem with YouTube is that there is a massive number of channels that have great content and never get the time of day. When you do a search like Scale crawler for [...]
Just wanted to thank you for the many Big Squid articles and Trigger King videos over the years. Really helpful for me as I got into the hobby a bit and am enjoying it with my son. I was completely bitten by the solid axle bug here in Va. I have two SMT10s and I have a couple of questions [...]
Its officially go time for the Ultimate Scale Truck Expo, now is the time of year where we must put all our ideas into motion and start making them into a reality. I think we have upped our game for USTE 2021 compared to the previous ones we have attend, a big part of that goes to Greg for his [...]
Today we are going to talk about the solid axle monster trucker’s best friend- Shoe Goo. Yes, what a sexy topic! Here’s the deal, folks. If you have a solid axle monster truck that means you probably have Clod sized tires and wheels. Outside of large scale r/c vehicles or expensive machined wheels, they are about as expensive of a set [...]
After two weeks of digging deep into the rear setup of a car and how angle and length of the upper link affects camber, it’s time to relax (for me!) with an unpretentious look at miscellaneous things going on out there. For a starter, MST surprised me a little while ago, by announcing a release that actually fits into the general [...]
If you did not catch last nights Big Squid RC live stream then you missed out, not only on a good time but also a new tool we talked about from DSM Off-Road. The Beadlock Buddy. I know from a lot of people myself included that dread doing beadlock or wagon wheels when the time arrives. Setting a tire on [...]
Hey all, sorry for the late column this week. Gonna be another two-fer as I combine the MTM and LR topics into one. This week I wanted to talk about tires, as there have been some big releases in both the monster truck and drag racing worlds as of late. Let’s start with drag racing. Wide tires are coming to no prep [...]
Today I’ll continue my endeavour to explain rear geometry, an enterprise that is quite the challenger, but the effort luckily rewards me with one geometric discovery after the other. Ha! Hands up if you saw what I just did? Two missing, true, but since they are verbs rather than nouns, I consider myself excused. But I digress. It happens. Well, as [...]
Today I am going straight to the topic: why are upper and lower A-arms never parallell? Previously, I have written about how camber gain when the car squats, depending on upper arm angle and upper arm length. The short story is that a short upper arm means more camber gain with squat (acceleration), a long upper arm less. More upper [...]
Hello everyone and welcome to this week Everybody’s Scalin’! If you have been watching the Big Squid RC live streams on Thursday nights then you would know we went up to the Great Lakes Gauntlet last weekend. And before I get some Karen emails there were hand washing stations and all that fun stuff. This years event was the first [...]
The other day after our monthly monster truck racing event, my buddy Aaron Janes decided he would try a stunt that we’ve joked about all summer- sending a solid axle monster truck across the pond that sits next to our racing surface. Naturally, we had to get it on camera! A little about the truck that’s used- his “Hellion” bodied truck [...]
