It all started because of one of Capt. Crashes threads, I don't remember when and which, but it all began with him
I can't blame him directly for the addiction but boy am I glad he reminded me that I had it in me
I had this PT Hull, half finished from two years ago when I tried to put a 0.15cc nitro engine in it, lying around, doing nothing. It had actually had it's water trails and had run,
well a very small distance, at one time. But with the pull start cable broken I would have to take the engine out and repair it, before I could run again. This was also my first encounter with nitro and because I live in an apartment I don't really have the room to accommodate a nitro but being stubborn as I'm I had purchased a nitro at that time and.....blah blah blah!
Anyways nitro is to much a hassle so I decided I had to go BL because the motors are much more efficient than the normal brushed motors which I had extensive experience with etc. etc.
So instead of finishing what I had begun (the sub) I had gone on with "No balls". No balls because the prop shaft uses no ball bearings at speeds which calculated should come close to 40.000rpm's
Well I had begun at the end of May more or less and just because of the tweaking it had taken me so long to get a tightly balanced setup which should give me between 40-60kph. In between the build and the tweaks I have let the smoke go out of one 4500Mah Nimh cell, two ESC's and one motor
I've acquired 4 ESC's, 3 motors, one
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