Its Finally Finished NEW PICS

[Jai]

well after a whole afternoon, and some procrastination about what motor to use i have finished my TLT ROCKBUSTER.
now i only have to paint the shell......
Pics will follow.............. !lmao

[James]

crank that shit up. should come to ryper with it :)

[BAGES]

. !picsorban .


!lol

[remotebandit]

hes teasing us ... lol

[Jai]

thats right.... mmwwaahhhaaaa

[James]

where's the pics! cmon!!! !whistle

[imported_admin]

this is big brother.

show us the pics goddamnit.

[Jai]

this was the build....

F*&K there are alot of bits... haha

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[Jai]

now finished but with no body shell.....

Special paint still coming

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[Jai]

finished with other 68 'Stang Body
Custom Pearl paint (sorry pics arent great)

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[Matt]

here is a nitro converted one...



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[Matt]

another pic



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[JD]

woot nitro!

[remotebandit]

hijacking threads matto ? ... uhhm .

Celipa , i love the body mate , would be nice to see the spray job on an outside sunny day pix if you get a chance .

[Jai]

yea matto... huh who do you think you are? i think we need to take this outside..... hahahha
yea the body shell looks hot under daylight....
my mods will arrive this week... so i'll post more pics when its finished...
or re-finished i should say....

[Jai]

here are my finshed pics...
well one of them anyways.
still need tyres

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[BALISTC]

Looking good ;)

As for that nitro powered TLT-1, thats fair enough...but that guy is nuts to use a Tamiya FS-15LT...second worst motor ever made, right behind the Tamiya FS-12LT.

[Jai]

yea if your going to mod a tlt to that extent then really you'd think you would go to town.... and put a hardcore petrol engine....
but i think that it wouldnt really have the torque needed for rock climing

[JD]

and wouldn't a nitro have fuel line issues, if the car is at crazy angles... starving the engine for fuel.... or making it really hard to get the fuel there

[Jai]

yea thats a good point... when its vertically climbing a wall.. youd run out of fuel

[JD]

but it would still struggle to pull the fuel to the carb, cos by your explaination I could run 300M of fuel line up a mountain,and as long as theres no leaks there shpuld be fuel at the top :P...

MASSIVE exaggeration I know. But with the crazy angles and stuff, and i don;t think the engine would be reving high, so would there be enough pressure from the exhaust?

[Jai]

i dont believe it would work.... even with correct fuel pressure GP engines need heaps of revs and often want heaps of speed, the high torque/low speed of rock climing would damage the clutch packs... but then looking at that other TLT is looks stock lenght with very little other mods. so i dont think hes all that keen about rock climing and more of a smash and crash driver. using it as a monster truck.

[JD]

true, I totally forgot about the gearing... I was thinking the engine would be reving pretty low....

but yea... gearing is the key :D

[BALISTC]

The problem with fuel starvation at crazy vehicle angles is a very easy one to solve..

What happens to planes and helis that fly at all sorts of angles?

They use whats called a clunk...its basically a small brass pick up on the end of a piece of fuel line in the tank, which moves to the lowest point in the tank at any given time, which is also where the fuel would be, no matter what angle the tank is at.

Problem solved :)

[James]

word of the day is "clunk"

!lol

[BALISTC]

Thats what its called!! :)

[remotebandit]

good call balistc , helis also use a tiny reserve tank that feeds off the main tank in series to the motor . Come to think of it , once presurised , you could place this reserve tank at halfway and its own tank pressure would help suck fuel along out of the main tank .

[remotebandit]

here ya go

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[BALISTC]

Nice :)

They do the same thing on Savages, they use a small Hayes tank as a reserve tank, to keep fuel pressure constant to the motor, as the Savage tanks have a tendency to lean out the motor as they get emptier..

[BAGES]

sorry off topic but - how PHAT dies that Heli look !!!! :-)

[remotebandit]

that helis old bages , you should see the new ones out these days .

im pretty sure that reserve tank will fix any issues if there are any once you get it going .

[Narf]

Kyosho .10's proove good for something after all. (The piston from mine now resides proudly upon a keyring. Bless it's flooged out soul) !smile

[Jai]

ive never really got into heli's arent they really hard to fly... like you need full on training and shiiit

[remotebandit]

hey Jai , i swear that if you buy one of those flight sims off ebay , your half way there , even for the planes . The new flight sims are getting more and more accurate .

Ive got a projector at home here that i link up to my PC and shoot it on a 3 meter wall when everones gone to sleep and practise on that atleast 3 nights a week and even though i know how to fly with my eyes closed , it still helps with the confidence and the screen setup on the wall makes it even more realistic .

You got a 4 channel remote ? ( pref JR as the interface works better ) .

[Jai]

oh nah i dont have a heli and dont have any real plans to get one.... i was just curious. like i heard it takes hours and hours to even get the thing to hover...

[RohaN]

Hey when you see those guys flying Helis upside down and doing all that tricky buisness, is the rotor blade angle adjusted by the flyer or via some kind of sensor?
i've always immagined one cocking-up and making a very quick decent to terra firma when it rolls over

[remotebandit]

lol , the flyer definately adjusts it .

I am not at that level so cant comment from experience but I can tell you what happens . What you do is bank it either way and when you hit it pretty much at 100 degrees , you flick an invert switch that changes the pitch on the blades to push air up rather than push it down . Alot also invert them nosing forward and over like a somersault , same thing , get it to 100 or so degrees and flick the switch .

[RohaN]

ahh ok. a switch makes sense.
i saw a vid in a hobby shop once of a dude flying at night with coloured LEDs on the tips of his rotors and all over the heli doing those front roll-over things and hooning round upside-down in the dark.

impressive stuff!

[Jai]

man that sounds pretty farking wiked.. would be awesome to watch. does a heli controller have heaps of sticks and buttons etc?

[Jai]

ahh ok.. yea i saw a pic of one... only two sticks but your constantly changing channels to control diff parts?

[Matt]

nah jai, _both_ sticks have up, down, left, right direction...

ok, so the throttle stick goes up and down like every other stick controller, but also goes left, right

freaky! check this...

the steering stick goes left, right like normal but also goes up, down.

there are 4 channels there without having to flick switches yet.

then, there are switches on top to control extra servos on high end machines with say, a 6 channel radio.

[remotebandit]

Basic run down of the transmitteer i use for my heli are in the pix .

Throttle is actually mixed with main rotor blades pitch control but when you get into high end flying , you turn off the throttle / pitch mix and use one of the side sliders as your pitch then 1 of the top switches for your inverted pitch for acrobatics .

The remote pictured is a 9Channel so your only using 6 channels to fly and can have 3 for anything else you can think of .

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[remotebandit]

jr

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[remotebandit]

jr

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[KingBob]

Needs a good dusting :P

[remotebandit]

just took it out of the case for photos now , its in a case with that foam moulding shit that it sits in and it grabs heaps of particles on it from there but very visible under macro and flash conditions ... lol

[Matt]

WHOA!!!!

[Jai]

ok, holy crap..... hahah thats awesome.... i dont think i would ever be able to fly one of those things... now i think someone said before that you plug your controller into an interface on your p.c to practice? like flight sim style?