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- Kraton 6s
So, my family has met up in Pigeon Forge for a week to hang out and my brother brought his Talion 6S. So we decided it would be fun to run them in a big empty parking lot to open them up and see what they could do. We each bought a set of road tires (I bought belted Proline Street Fighters, he bought Duratrax Bandito MT). We were having a good ol' time, his tires were ballooning pretty bad, but mine were holding like a champ. So, he decided to switch to his stick tires. Unfortunately, there was still a bit of water in his stock tires, so we learned that tires with water in them will blow the foam right through the tire tread. A valuable lesson I was happy to learn from his experience.
While he was putting his street balloons back on I was doing a couple of speed runs back and forth across the parking lot. I had a few spectators, so I was trying to open her up and show off a little. The parking lot wasn't huge, but it was probably abou 150 yards square with a couple of light poles in the center. Anyway, I had her going full speed across the parking lot, then as I was nearing the edge of the lot I hit the brakes to spin it around and my Kraton just kept hauling ass until it hit the curb head on and flew about 20 feet up in the air and tumbled off into the bushes. Needless to say, I was a bit concerned. I went over to pick it up and it was completely unresponsive. When I pulled the body off, I saw that one front tire was pointing way out, but I couldn't find anything broken. All three wires came un plugged from the motor, both batteries had come unplugged, and the pinion gear had shifted forward on the motor to the point that it no longer made contact with the spur gear. That was the end of our little excursion. We went back to the hotel and I started pulling everything apart to assess the damage and see what parts I was about to upgrade. I was shocked to find that there was not a single broken part, anywhere!! Not even anything bent! I put it back together and tried it out and everything looks good to go.
Now, I am no physicist by any means, but it seems to me that if you run a Kraton into a hunk of concrete so hard that the weight of the wires carries enough momentum to unplug them you were kinda doing something. And yet, there was not a single broken or bent part. The only adjust ment I had to do was to adjust the ball cup things in the front end.
Needless to say, I am thoroughly impressed by this beast's durability and resilience!!
While he was putting his street balloons back on I was doing a couple of speed runs back and forth across the parking lot. I had a few spectators, so I was trying to open her up and show off a little. The parking lot wasn't huge, but it was probably abou 150 yards square with a couple of light poles in the center. Anyway, I had her going full speed across the parking lot, then as I was nearing the edge of the lot I hit the brakes to spin it around and my Kraton just kept hauling ass until it hit the curb head on and flew about 20 feet up in the air and tumbled off into the bushes. Needless to say, I was a bit concerned. I went over to pick it up and it was completely unresponsive. When I pulled the body off, I saw that one front tire was pointing way out, but I couldn't find anything broken. All three wires came un plugged from the motor, both batteries had come unplugged, and the pinion gear had shifted forward on the motor to the point that it no longer made contact with the spur gear. That was the end of our little excursion. We went back to the hotel and I started pulling everything apart to assess the damage and see what parts I was about to upgrade. I was shocked to find that there was not a single broken part, anywhere!! Not even anything bent! I put it back together and tried it out and everything looks good to go.
Now, I am no physicist by any means, but it seems to me that if you run a Kraton into a hunk of concrete so hard that the weight of the wires carries enough momentum to unplug them you were kinda doing something. And yet, there was not a single broken or bent part. The only adjust ment I had to do was to adjust the ball cup things in the front end.
Needless to say, I am thoroughly impressed by this beast's durability and resilience!!