"Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man" (jordaneer1)
08/16/2015 at 13:25 • Filed to: None
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"Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man" (jordaneer1)
08/16/2015 at 13:25 • Filed to: None | 1
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I’m trying to get a different Hobby grade RC buggy, but first I need to sell mine, and because of a clusterfuck with a spammer on ebay who refused to pay, I’m turned off by selling on it, so I thought I would try here since its like the Richard Hammond of cars, like one, only smaller. it’s a Traxxas T-Maxx from around 2002-ish and it has a ton of extra parts, I recently had to rip apart the entire front suspension to replace a half-shaft that broke and wouldn’t run, it’s a 2 speed transmission, and it also has reverse, and will hit around 35 mph, the transmission may need new gears in it, (or the centrifugal clutch, I’m not sure), but I have some gears for it, it has a ton of extra parts with it and an extra motor that could be rebuilt with a new piston assembly.
Price on ebay was $250+$50 in shipping, oppo discount is $225 shipped (to continental US)
Money Hustard
> Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man
08/16/2015 at 14:38 |
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My wife bought me a Traxxas Stampede for Christmas out of no where (I’m not much of an RC enthusiast). Modern RC cars are too much party.
TheOnelectronic
> Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man
08/16/2015 at 15:07 |
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I had a nitro truck once.
Once.
Got an E-Maxx after that. Loved that thing.
MM54
> Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man
08/18/2015 at 20:42 |
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I strongly recommend the T-maxx to someone looking to get in to R/C. That said, unless this truck is in very good condition, you may be asking a bit much.
I had a slightly-later T-Maxx 3.3 with the full kit (2-speed optishift trans with reverse and such) that I thrashed on an old strip mine for several years. It sat for several years and this past spring I pulled it out, took it entirely apart (down to every last screw) and cleaned all the nitro grease and exhaust off it, and did some machining to fab up mounts for a brushless e-maxx transmission, e-revo reveiver box, hi-tec waterproof metal gear servo (that was a hassle), and a 4S LiPo system with Castle brushless motor/ESC. To top it off I ditched the old analog radio for a new Futaba 2.4GHz system with features I’ll never use (like ABS, it’s weird).
I really dig the nitro, but in the past 5 or so years, lithium batteries and brushless motors have pretty much deemed them obsolete except in a few cases. Sure, the retrofit cost a little over 50% of what the truck cost new (a decade earlier) but it outperforms it in almost every way. I still have all the upgraded (e.g. aluminum) parts from the old weekly-thrashings and an entirely-waterproof (submersible!) truck.
The nitro t-maxx is surely a fun truck but unless you really want to carry around (and buy) fuel, the starter, and annoy the neighbors from the noise and exhaust stink or are simply just really into Nitro (and there’s nothing wrong with that), I can’t imagine not wanting to move over to something electric.