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Tooling recommendations please
Hi all,
Thank you to everyone for letting me borrow there tools so far, but over the past month it's become quite apparent that I am crying out for a decent set of tools to be able to work on Charlie's car . It just so happens that Mrs Edwards is dying to buy me some for Christmas . So please can you suggest a brand and what she should buy; I am thinking of hex and nut drivers etc. They dont need to be top of the range. We have a B4 (and a Losi 22 is on the way - but Charlie doesnt know that ) many thanks, John. |
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Imperial http://www.modelsport.co.uk/fastrax-...products/28765 http://www.modelsport.co.uk/dynamite...products/36390 Metric http://www.modelsport.co.uk/fastrax-...products/28766 http://www.modelsport.co.uk/bmi-nut-...products/20928 http://www.modelsport.co.uk/bmi-nut-...products/20929 These are a cheap option but will get you going.......
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Hi John, I was one of the lads helping a little last night, the problem you have is the B4 is imperial and the 22 will be metric I believe
This might work out quiet expensive to have a full set of each!! I personally use EDS drivers, these are quiet expensive but they do tend to last, other brands I can think of are Arrowmax,hudy,RDRP...... What I would say is be carefully of some of the "cheap" sets as they will tend to round off or even snap so May work out more expensive in the long run |
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EDS are expensive but Arrow Max are cheaper and they use the same tips as EDS. I've got a set of imperial nut drivers that you can have for £5 as all my cars are metric. I've got some hardly used imperial wrenches too that you can have a look at.
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Those imperial nut drivers will be ideal for the B4, thank you. As for the Losi (metric), then the purple Arrow max look like a good bet; I even like the colour Thanks again, and see you all Sunday. |
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More useful tools are body reamer curved lexon scissors point nose pliers wire snips etc |
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Thanks Davo!
Please can anyone recommend a soldering iron in addition to some dos and dont's about soldering in general please? I can't solder at present but believe it will be a good skill to get the hang of in the future. Thanks. John |
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Soldering is one of those things that the more you do it the better you get.
My personal tip is clean the tip during use (damp sponge), a good hot iron with tip well covered in solder when going in to do the joint. Tin the wires well before soldering, hold wires with pliers. What you don't want is a dry joint (where you don't have enough solder in the joint) this will be visable by being able to see the strands of the wires, what you want to see is a nice smooth finish on the joint. Hope the above helps.
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I use a Portasol Super Pro, it's a gas soldering iron which comes in handy when you have no leccy. You can also get different size tips.
Tips on soldering: Tip both wire and connector first with good quality solder, place wire onto connector apply clean tipped iron job done, oh remember heat shrink before you attach the two together if needed. Job done. Hope this helps..
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Also about the soldering use a solder sucker to remove old solder second most handiest tool to go with it, soldering iron being the first
And i agree the portosol pro is the best, been using it on cars for years and when the tip finally seems to not be heating the solder enough change it out asap if your soldering onto the esc, far too much heat transfer there. The vent on the tip also doubles as a handy heat shrink heaterer.
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So I am planning on getting a Super Pro 125, but please can you tell me which gas refills you use; there doesn't appear to be a Portasol refill available?
Thanks. |
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