Tarnish
Airbrush wannabe.
- Messages
- 45
- Location
- Peterborough, ON (near Toronto)
Went to the LHS yesterday (May 11th, 2011) to finally pick up my new SC10. Took me the rest of the day, but I put it together last night.
I'm not entirely sure of the total time spent building as I was wandering around every now and again for a break cause my back didn't like my posture over the table I was working on. I think I need something higher than a card table. Meh.
The grand opening:
Okay, let's get organized about this and make sure everything is here:
Okay, it's all here. We're off to the races.
This looks easy enough. Little did I know they started you out with the most annoying task of all.
Dang, these are some small parts. I mean, look at the size of this steering rack.
So, I worked at it a little more and got everything seated, or so I thought.
Something didn't seem right, plus the fact that I didn't like how much that servo was buzzing, so I went and grabbed a steering servo off the e-Revo (waterproof), removed all the screws and started over.
I was right to redo, I had some longer screws in the wrong spots so I swapped them for the right size and made sure I had my calipers handy to measure the screws to be sure. This is where HPI is so much better for their manuals, they tell you a) what bag you are working on and b) they have a checklist of the parts in that bag with actual size diagrams of the screws in the margin so you wouldn't need calipers.
Anyhow, this is Part 1 done. I took 45 pics of the build, so bear with me posting them all.
I'm not entirely sure of the total time spent building as I was wandering around every now and again for a break cause my back didn't like my posture over the table I was working on. I think I need something higher than a card table. Meh.
The grand opening:
Okay, let's get organized about this and make sure everything is here:
Okay, it's all here. We're off to the races.
This looks easy enough. Little did I know they started you out with the most annoying task of all.
Dang, these are some small parts. I mean, look at the size of this steering rack.
So, I worked at it a little more and got everything seated, or so I thought.
Something didn't seem right, plus the fact that I didn't like how much that servo was buzzing, so I went and grabbed a steering servo off the e-Revo (waterproof), removed all the screws and started over.
I was right to redo, I had some longer screws in the wrong spots so I swapped them for the right size and made sure I had my calipers handy to measure the screws to be sure. This is where HPI is so much better for their manuals, they tell you a) what bag you are working on and b) they have a checklist of the parts in that bag with actual size diagrams of the screws in the margin so you wouldn't need calipers.
Anyhow, this is Part 1 done. I took 45 pics of the build, so bear with me posting them all.