Keep yourself warm and cosy while showing your passion to everything RB with the French company’s new winter hat. Made from black fabric and coming with an embroidered RB logo the hat keeps your head warm on and off the track.
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New from BMT and made for the 984 on-road car are several option parts to enhance the performance and durability. First up is an aluminium clutch housing with a special hard-coat surface to make for less wear and improved durability. Also new is a hardened steel servo saver axle, again made to improve reliability and durability. Last but not least are two new rear anti-roll bar wires in 2.6mm and 2.8mm diameter that help to fine-tune the roll characteristics of the car.
Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]
From Radtec for the Yokomo BD7 comes a set of low-profile pivot balls that sport a reduced height to allow for more traction in corners when used as camber link ball studs. 1mm lower in height than the original Yokomo ZC-206SH parts the 4.3x10mm balls come made for hex head wrenches and they sport a hard-coated surface for super-smooth suspension operation.
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VBC Racing have a range of new option parts for the Wildfire D07 touring car available such as a chassis mounted steering post set, a steering rack stiffener post, a 2-point suspension mount shim set as well as front and rear stabiliser sets. Starting with the steering post set, the parts allow to convert the “floating” steering assembly into a conventional, chassis mounted steering in order to adapt the cornering characteristics to your liking. Included is a pair of bellcrank posts and countersunk screws.
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New from Teamsaxo comes the TS01097 formula bodyshell. Its design resembles a late 1980’s, early 1990’s formula 1 car and it is best used on medium to high speed tracks. The body is made from clear polycarbonate and made to fit most of today’s formula chassis.
Source: Teamsaxo [saxoracing.com]
Fantom Racing introduce the Tour Spec 10.5T IONv4 540-size electric brushless motor. Specially built for the new 10.5 Tour class that allows the internal resistance to be a minimum of 7.7 ohms the motor is available in Spec, Team and Works Edition versions while retaining all other specs from the original IONv4.
Source: Fantom [fantomracing.com]
Better known as the organiser of what is regarded as one of the best World Championships to date, Finland’s Jussi Luopajärvi has been working on another RC project called Testlogger, a tool for collecting and analysing track performance. Starting with a vision for a better way to collect data from test and race days compared to notepad or MS Excel, this tool stores laptimes, setups, conditions and comments, with weather conditions automatically fetched for outdoor tracks while laptimes can be imported from Mylaps. The collected data helps to compare and analyse track performance of single days or in the long term from yourself or your racing buddies. A social sharing function helps spread the word with the public or your friends only, using the Testlogger feed or through private messages. A comprehensive archive function stores past setups with every set-up change being accessible while runs, sessions and notes can be tagged for future reference. The web based, and currently completely free to use, service is available here with a lot of new features being added all the time to further improve the tool.
Source: Testlogger [testlogger.info]
New from Etronix comes the 150A watt meter and power analyser that helps to prevent peak current damages of batteries, speed controllers, motors, wirings and connectors as it measures and analyses a range of parameters such as ampere, voltage, watt, ampere-hours and watt-hours. It comes in handy when setting cut-off voltages and to check battery capacity and health. Other applications include battery charger operation checks as well as receiver and servo current measurement of multi-servo applications. The compact device measures 85x42x25m, it weighs in at 82g and features a backlit 16×2 LC display.
Source: Etronix [etronix-rc.com]
