Available now and designed for the Slide Drive system are new gear differential outdrives from Serpent. Usable on the SRX-2 Buggy and SC truck and made from high-quality spring steel the outdrives allow to use the performance enhancing Slide Drive system in combination with gear differentials and not just the standard ball differentials.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
New from Scorpion Power Systems and designed to help replacing the ball races of the RS-3420 motor is the bearing maintenance kit. The precision tool is made to easily and conveniently replace worn or damaged bearings without harming any parts involved. The tool set is made from 6061-T6 aluminium, it comes black anodised and it is available now.
Source: Scorpion [scorpionsystem.com]
Round 3 of the 2015 Jimmy Babcock Racing League Electric Series was held at the SDRC Raceway in San Diego, California. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class Kevin Motter came in 1st from Shawn Blackwell Sr. in 2nd and Blake Beyett, who completed the top 3 result.
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Team C introduce a heat sink fan mount for most of today’s 1/10th brushless speed controllers. The part is designed to mount 30mm fans onto of brushless ESC in order to improve heat dissipation over the standard 25mm fans. Made from aluminium and coming orange or gun metal anodised the fan mount offers a 25mm mounting pattern for the controller heatsink and a 30mm pattern for the fan. Additionally the fan sits at an angle to blow towards the motor, doing away with the need to use an additional unit. Included with the mount comes a genuine WTF 30mm fan.
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Axial have a range of new parts for the Yeti XL and SCX10 off-road vehicles available. First up is the 3.8 Falken Wildpeak M/T all terrain tyre that will offer tons of traction on many surfaces, even with its rather conservative pattern. It comes as pairs in sticky R35 compound, including foam inserts and the tyre fits the Yeti XL off-road buggy.
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The 29th annual Hank Perry 240 was held this past weekend in Spokane, Washington. This race doubles as round #2 of the Northwest Championship Tour and always draws a large entry count, in part due to being held on Memorial Day weekend each year. This year was no different and “The Hank” attracted close to 300 entries. The 3 day event consisted of Friday practice, 3 rounds of qualifying Saturday and triple A-Mains Sunday with single 30 minute nitro A-mains. Q1 of the 2WD Buggy class with 26 entries saw the AE of Dave Gullickson edging out Kyosho’s Tayler Wonders by only a tenth or two. Q2 and Q3 would see Kyosho’s on top with Tayler taking round 2 and Derek Rasheed taking round 3. After all the qual points were calculated, and the tie-breakers were accounted for it, would be Rasheed with the overall TQ with Dave 2nd and Tayler 3rd.
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Following the RC Blood multi-functional grease RC 110% Racing have now introduced RC Sweat, a lubricant ideal to prevent the seals of shock absorbers from swelling. One of the biggest issues with shock absorbers is that the shock O-rings will swell up from the silicone shock oil, which will cause the shocks to bind up, completely taking away their smoothness and consistency. Using the RC Sweat lube during building and maintenance will not only keep the seals from swelling but the grease will also make for silky smooth shock action over a longer period of time.
Source: 110% Racing [race110.com]
The second round of the Norwegian Grenland Cup was held in Skien over the weekend. Different from round 1 the race saw the introduction of a control tyre and everyone was keep to get some laps under their belts in practice to get used to the new tyres. In the qualifiers it was again Marlin Karlsen (Xray) who came out fastest by winning the first two rounds to take the overall TQ for the triple 12-minute A-mains. The finals then saw Malin taking comfortable wins with the only 21-lap runs of the day. Erik Fink (Mugen) came in 2nd while Petter Strand (Mugen) rounded out the podium in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
