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June 17, 2025

Team Bomber HQ lightweight clamp hub

1:12 specialists Team Bomber from Japan has released this new HQ lightweight clamp hub for its AK12 series chassis. Designed to lighten the drive system and improve the rotation accuracy directly linked to driving performance, they are made from high-strength, high-quality 7075 aluminium material. The design uses waste-free materials and is approximately 30% lighter (about 3g → 2g) compared to standard products. Additionally, they use a counterweight shape that optimises rotational balance, making for a smooth high precision rotation. This makes the cars’s movement a whole lot sharper and reduces traction loss during cornering. This provides a solid advantage, especially for stock class users looking to harness limited power. Also, the bis in the clamp section, which contributes to the lighter weight, was changed from the traditional M2.5 to the M2 bis. For concerns about torque shortage due to small diameter, adopting a high-strength specialised steel plated small head cap bisque ensures reliable tightening torque, and you don’t have to worry about loosening.

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May 27, 2025

Team Bomber T-Bars for Tamiya Group C kits

Japanese 1:12 specialists Team Bomber has announced it is to release a range of parts for Tamiya’s once popular Group C series chassis of 1:10 kits. With the cars having become popular with the resellers of famous cars of the past years, to make them more easy to drive Team Bomber has produced two types of ‘HQ High Traction T-Bar’. Featuring a new design and new material they help achieve a more stable ride in all conditions. In addition to the original design aimed at improving the rear grip and improving the gap breaking performance, this product uses a high-quality natural FRP that boasts a gentle twisting characteristic. The new T-Bars, available as a soft or medium option, are a direct replacement for the original Tamiya kit version. With the T0Bar release Team Bomber are already working on developing their second, third Group C kit specific parts.

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April 3, 2025

Team Bomber 1:12 HQ Steel Composite Shaft

Japanese 1:12 specialists Team Bomber has released this HQ Steel Composite Shaft. In development for 3-years, this spool shaft does not use the common method of fixing a clamp-style hub on the shaft, but rather a method of pressing an integrated aluminium wheel & spur gear holder directly to the shaft. As a result, the weight balance during rotation has been significantly improved to achieve overwhelming rotation accuracy, and with its precision and strength, it has achieved surprising rear traction. Another feature of the HQ Steel Composite Shaft is the hollow steel shaft section. While a steel shaft it achieves carbon shaft lightness and boasts high strength. Carefully selecting the best steel materials, this allows the tube to be extremely thin while successfully achieving lightness and strong strength.

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May 22, 2024

Team Bomber AK12 Quick Battery Holder Set

Japanese 1:12 specialists Team Bomber has released this optional Quick Battery Holder Set for its AK12 series 1:12 chassis. It was developed to improve the disadvantages of standard tape-fixed battery installations, such as the hassle of replacing the tape and the possibility of the tape breaking due to interference with the road surface, causing the battery to move. Removing the battery from the quick battery holder set is really easy. First, remove the centr eshock, loosen the two screws that secure the battery holding plate, and remove the plate to quickly access the battery. In addition, battery positioning, which has been ambiguous until now, can be done reliably by replacing the included 3D battery plate, which is also useful for quantifying settings.

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January 31, 2024

Team Bomber Australia 1:12 Ball differential for asphalt

Melbourne based Team Bomber Australia has announced details of its upcoming 1:12 ball diff for racing on asphalt. Compatible with cars from Team Bomber, Bezerk Katana, Roche, CRC, Destiny, Schumacher, Yokomo and Xray, prototype versions of the parts were recently used to great effect at last weekends TFTR Masters event, taking the title in 1:12 Modified and 2nd & 3rd places in 1:12 Stock. Team Bomber Australia have designed and manufactured two parts. Titanium Ball differential rings are cut from gr5 certified titanium and machine lapped for precision parallel flatness and mirror polished. They are also processed in two coating options. TiN – gold finish, coating with superior wear resistance / hardness and ultra smooth surface. The second option is TiCN – gun metal finish, coating with ultimate wear resistance and hardness, also yields a very low coefficient of friction for smooth operation of the differential They are available in 3 outer diameter sizes to suit spur gear range 74t – 92t.

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September 25, 2023

Sobue adds Japanese 1:12 National title

Having won the All Japan 1:10 Touring Car National title earlier this month for Axon, ISTC World Championship podium finisher Akio Sobue has just added the National 1:12 title to his tally. Racing for Team Bomber at the Radio Controlled Heaven track in Nagoya City over the weekend, Sobue would secure the overall TQ from the similar TB-AK12 of Takashi Kato having topped three of the four rounds of qualifying, Kato topping Q4. In the triple 8-minute finals, Sobue won the opening encounter by 3-seconds from former 1:12 World Finalist Hideo Kitazawa. A2 would see another win this time over Kato to secure the overall title. Winning A3, Kitazawa would finish 2nd overall with Kato completing the podium.

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August 24, 2022

Team Bomber AK12 front suspension arm support plate

Team Bomber has released this optional front suspension arm support plate for their AK12 Series 1:12 chassis. This 1.0mm plate is mounted on the upper side of the front suspension arm to alter and strengthen the carbon lower arm so the twisting of the carbon lower arm and warping during driving are suppressed and strengthened to change the handling characteristics. Depending on the track conditions and layout of the circuit, you can easily apply subtle set-up tweaks to the handling “with plates” and “without plates”. If you insert more than 1mm of spacing between the front suspension mount and the suspension arm, use the included 3×10 screws to the arm mounting.

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July 11, 2022

Sagami RC Fab AK12 battery stopper & rear brace

Sagami RC Fab has released two new hop-up parts for Team Bomber AK12. The first is a new battery stopper, the successor of BO-002 with enhanced functionality. It consists of an aluminium front stopper and a carbon rear stopper and gives the battery the option of 3 different positions. It can be used with both battery brace in the AK12 kit and the carbon battery brace made by SRF. The other new items is an aluminium rear brace. Machined from 7075-T6 and matte black anodised, compared to the carbon rear brace included in the kit the assembly accuracy and the rigidity of the entire motor pod are improved.

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