OzBasher
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- Arrma RC's
- Kraton 6s
Hi all,
So I've taken the Kraton out every day for a week now and had an absolute ball bashing it. The highlight would have been learning to do backflips at the skatepark and seeing punters lose their poop over said backflips. I'm stoked with how much of of a beating it has taken, but alas today is the first day I can't take it out.
Not 100% sure how long it's been busted for, but I noticed today the front bumper was completely gone, the red brace the holds the control arms in place was just held in by two snapped screws. So instead of out bashing I thought I'd give a shout out to the parts I've broken so far.
So first run outside the back yard, didn't even get through a full battery pack before trying for my first backflip up quite a large embankment at the park, landing hard on the back wheel, snapping some sort of ball end. Would have been a cheap fix except I didn't realise the dog bone had fallen out. Oh well, I know next time - and I have a spare dog bone.
Next few outings I out scraped the bejesus out of the body and the chassis, figured out the whole backflip thing at the skate park and managed to not break anything.
On Friday after a few beers and heaps of successful back flips I got a little cocky and tried for a front flip... I came up high to give myself time to front flip and duffed it! Managed to stop dead upside and then watched it drop like a rock landing flat on the roof. Would have close to 3 metres I guess. Plugged the motor back it and it ran fine. Didn't notice until that night the chassis brace had snapped where it screws to the chassis.
No one locally has the part in, so took it easy on Saturday (although mainly because I got kicked out of the BMX track I tried to drive in) and did some speed runs around a car park. Sort of slammed into a cement pole at about half speed bang in the middle of the car. I'm guessing that's when the bumper got broken?
Sunday I went to the only basher RC track in Sydney and ran through a couple battery packs. No real big stacks and great fun flying around the track. Sort of surprised that the control arms didn't fall of if the bumper was broken since Saturday.
Yesterday I got to the park and then notice the front steering ball thingy was halfway out of the control arm, so went home, fix that and just did some speed runs and wheelies up and down my street to keep my neighbours entertained and discharge the lipo a bit
No damage at all really, but again, surprised it held together.
Anyway, loving this beast at the moment, hopefully the parts arrive before the weekend so I can bash it some more I guess until then I might as we do some more maintenance - I've got some 150K Huddy diff fluid that needs to find it's way into the centre diff.
So I've taken the Kraton out every day for a week now and had an absolute ball bashing it. The highlight would have been learning to do backflips at the skatepark and seeing punters lose their poop over said backflips. I'm stoked with how much of of a beating it has taken, but alas today is the first day I can't take it out.
Not 100% sure how long it's been busted for, but I noticed today the front bumper was completely gone, the red brace the holds the control arms in place was just held in by two snapped screws. So instead of out bashing I thought I'd give a shout out to the parts I've broken so far.
So first run outside the back yard, didn't even get through a full battery pack before trying for my first backflip up quite a large embankment at the park, landing hard on the back wheel, snapping some sort of ball end. Would have been a cheap fix except I didn't realise the dog bone had fallen out. Oh well, I know next time - and I have a spare dog bone.
Next few outings I out scraped the bejesus out of the body and the chassis, figured out the whole backflip thing at the skate park and managed to not break anything.
On Friday after a few beers and heaps of successful back flips I got a little cocky and tried for a front flip... I came up high to give myself time to front flip and duffed it! Managed to stop dead upside and then watched it drop like a rock landing flat on the roof. Would have close to 3 metres I guess. Plugged the motor back it and it ran fine. Didn't notice until that night the chassis brace had snapped where it screws to the chassis.
No one locally has the part in, so took it easy on Saturday (although mainly because I got kicked out of the BMX track I tried to drive in) and did some speed runs around a car park. Sort of slammed into a cement pole at about half speed bang in the middle of the car. I'm guessing that's when the bumper got broken?
Sunday I went to the only basher RC track in Sydney and ran through a couple battery packs. No real big stacks and great fun flying around the track. Sort of surprised that the control arms didn't fall of if the bumper was broken since Saturday.
Yesterday I got to the park and then notice the front steering ball thingy was halfway out of the control arm, so went home, fix that and just did some speed runs and wheelies up and down my street to keep my neighbours entertained and discharge the lipo a bit
No damage at all really, but again, surprised it held together.Anyway, loving this beast at the moment, hopefully the parts arrive before the weekend so I can bash it some more
I guess until then I might as we do some more maintenance - I've got some 150K Huddy diff fluid that needs to find it's way into the centre diff.
?
