Wasp racing information

[SERENISSIMA]

I still have some decals.

[Peakey]

WOW now those decals you never see anymore any chance of getting a hi res scan so we can get them remade?

[Welshy40]

I know a man who can on ebay who will sell at a reasonable price so as per Peakeys email a pukka high res scan of these will be perfect.

[G stote]

Someone has kindly spent the time scanning old mags for any wasp stuff and emailed them to me, many thanks to Jirka.
I also found some old photos while moving house which I'll try and locate again.

i shall post the emailed picture in a bit

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If anyone has any machined wasp products ie anything in ally or nylon and your willing to let it go for a price let me know as I would love to have some of the bits dad made.

[Welshy40]

Nice images,brings back memories, i was in most of the fabiix ads when these were advertised, and a couple of the kyosho guys including me used sometimes the wasp spur with changing sections as 99 or 101 came in handy.

[Welshy40]

Originally Posted by G stote

If anyone has any machined wasp products ie anything in ally or nylon and your willing to let it go for a price let me know as I would love to have some of the bits dad made.

Think your dad had the spur gears made by RW Racing so may be an idea to contact. Also think a few soldering irons are still left with Spec racing, best soldering iron ive ever used, wouldnt and still dont use anything else.

[G stote]

I remember gear sets in the factory on the bench but I don't recal them being made so you might be right.

I only saw dad for a few years and even that was every other weekend so the information I have is very limited, a lot of you guys probably know more than me.

[Peakey]

I managed to track one of these down last year but I'm afraid to say it's going nowhere



It now lives in my XLS

[Naushad]

Some nice history there on Wasp. Thanks for sharing

[36racing]

Originally Posted by Peakey

WOW now those decals you never see anymore any chance of getting a hi res scan so we can get them remade?

If you can get a hi-res I can remake these in work if wanted

[Retro RC]

Originally Posted by G stote

Had a new lad start at work who's into rc cars his dad also remember sand down rc club which reminded me about this thread.

Hi dean, now that you mention it I do remember the gold car, your right I did have the black car but unfortunately it was thrown out by my mother as it was stripped for cleaning and she thought it was scrap or something? Totally devastated.

Yeah I remember the LRP motors, pink,white and blue seems to ring a bell and one of them was a struggle to get to the end of the race if I remember right?

If anyone has any pictures feel free to email me.... juddzey25@hotmail.co.uk

Cheers

Gareth

Man I wish we could still get some of his gear today....... I'd be absolutely broke by the time I'd finish ordering parts but it would be worth it lol.

I love the look of the cat rear geared gear box and the moulded tub chassis for the cougar and bosscat would have been bought for sure

[HatTrick]

A couple of weeks back I dismantled a Kyosho Salute I'd gotten as a spare parts chassis and found something I think would fit in this thread.
I just copied the text from the post I made over at RC10Talk, http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.ph...461540#p461540,
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As mentioned previously I got a spare part Salute chassis last week because it had the Belt Drive Kit I was looking for.

Something about it, maybe the red/brown belt got my spidey sense tingling though...


Began dismantling the chassis to take a look.
First thing I noticed was it didn't have the lexan cover for the pulley gear.


Rear gearbox.


The inside.



Rear Diff:



Front gearbox:


Front diff:



Not quite sure what I've got here. Looks like someone took a belt and some belt drive diffs and just chucked it in there.
Don't recognise the diffs either as I compare the parts with this http://theoptimahouse.blogspot.se/20...or-optima.html.

The belt pulleys on the diffs seem to be made of metal.

Anyone that can identify what I've got here?
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With the help of this thread, people at RC10Talk and some other facebook groups I've come to the conclusion that I've stumbled across a WASP Belt Drive for the Optima.

[Welshy40]

There is a wasp spur gear system for the Lazer zx/zxr on ebay.