Radtec RC have new hard-coated aluminium turnbuckles available. Coming as complete kits for the Tamiya TRF/VBC D07, Yokomo BD7 and Xray T4 a set of six turnbuckles weighs in at only 5g and they are also available as pairs in lengths of 16mm, 26mm, 30mm 39mm and 42mm.
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New from ProTek R/C comes the low profile 160T high torque servo. Featuring a robust 19.7kg-cm of torque and 0.06s transit time at 7.4V, the servo features a metal drivetrain, ball bearings and an all-aluminium heatsink case. Included with the servo, that is usable from 6.0V input on, comes a blue-anodised aluminium servo horn and aluminium servo ear guides.
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German Futaba distributors Robbe introduce the T4GRS 2.4GHz T-FHSS telemetry stick radio system. The transmitter offers a transmitting rate of 2.9ms, a large 128×64 back-lit display for realtime telemetry monitoring, Futaba’s S-Bus technology to make maximum use of the company’s S-Bus servos, controllers and sensors and the 4-channel radio is fully decked out with 9 widely assignable switches. The menu operation is done by a 4-way dial and two additional buttons with the transmitter offering a full load functions such as dual esc, gyro, brake and 4-wheel steering mixes along the usual array of settings such as dual rate, exponential, EPS and more. The radio will hit the stores by the end of December.
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Revolution Design Racing Products introduce their new line of dedicated greases for the use with ball differentials and thrust races. The Ultra Ball Diff Grease was previously sold under the Vampire Racing brand and now makes a revival in Revolution Design’s chem series. Although gear differentials are a more common sight in today’s vehicles ball differentials are still a welcome tuning option when running in low to medium grip conditions. The grease is designed to perform in off-road buggies, touring cars and pan/formula cars. The white-colour ball diff grease comes in cups of 5g. Also new is the black thrust race grease. Containing finely ground graphite for improved load stability the lubricant is ideally used on the thrust races of ball differentials. Like the diff grease the thrust race lube comes in a handy cup containing 5g of grease.
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MCD introduce the XS-5 conversion kit for the RR5 off-road buggy as well as optional Ackermann plates. Starting with the conversion kit, the set includes a XS-5 and decals, FT Spec 7075 anodised aluminium shock towers, FT Spec coil-over composite shock absorbers with high pressurised cell sSystem, the Rossa HS on-road tyres, XS-5 side guards, a full set of composite body accessories, a rear diffuser and front bumper. The set is suitable for all RR5 chassis and it converts the off-road buggy into an on-road Supercar.
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Last weekend saw the running of the Xmax Electric Off-Road Race in Paris, France. The 4WD class had Martin Bayer taking the TQ after winning all four qualifying rounds. The opening A-main saw Martin Bayer in a fight with his team mate Martin Wollanka but Bayer came out successful at the end. A2 and Martin Bayer had to fight with technical problems and he scored a DNF so he had to win the final A-main in order to take the overall victory and thanks to a win from tone to tone in A3 Martin was able to grab the title from Martin Wollanka and Reno Savoya.
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The 2014 Kyosho Masters USA was held this past weekend at RC Tracks of Las Vegas, host of the 2016 IFMAR 1/8th Buggy World Championships. Held in the classes of 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th E-Buggy the event saw the attendance of World Champions like Jared Tebo, Cody King and Yuichi Kanai alongside Europe’s Elliott Boots and Jerome Aigoin and other swift Kyosho drivers. The weekend was dominated by the battle between Jared Tebo and Elliott Boots as both chased for the top positions in the Nitro and Electric classes. In E-Buggy Elliott took an early overall TQ by winning three out of four qualifiers with Jared Tebo taking the final round Sunday morning.
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Following some controversial discussions about the surface of the 2015 1/10th Electric Buggy World Championship at the Yatabe Arena in Japan IFMAR now released the final decision following a vote to update IFMAR’s existing “surface” rule that previously saw dirt as the only allowed track surface. The new rule, that was accepted by three of the four IRMAR blocks, now allows for both dirt and (up to 100 percent) artificial turf tracks and it reads like this:
5.1 Surface
The track surface can be dirt, or else partially or entirely covered with artificial turf. (Commonly referred to as Astro turf) Other materials can be used in sections of the track such as table tops and jumps to assure the durability of those sections for the entire event. Such other materials must be limited to less than 20% of the total track length.
Dirt sections should be of screened top soil / clay free from rocks and debris with only a minimum amount of sand and hard packed to provide a durable consistent racing surface for the duration of the event.
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