Tamiya Durga DB01 EP Buggy (A cheaper 501X?)

[DCM]

diff halves are metal I think, with a plastic mounting base, I shall measure them up against the TA05 stuff to.

Does the Swiss Tamiya shop ship to the UK?

[gargadud]

I don't know.

Here is the mail of the shop owner named Andi

info@tamiyashop.ch

He hes been very helpful so far.

[wayneski]

Just got a mail back from Andi.
He will ship to uk but you need to email him for quote etc.
Will accept paypal and will send parts with tracking number. Seems quite the gent and fast response too

[drinternat]

Originally Posted by DCM

oh bugger, they got them stupid diff halves. BG8 is the diff ring, place it on the plastic holder with a little diff grease, don't glue it, but I would recommend gluing BG6 and A7 together, and the according parts for the other side

OK BG6 is metal and A7 is plastic. Would you still glue them. I see some parts are made of a flexy polythene type of plastic. Part B5 which covers the hole in the bottom of the tub is made of that and can be overtightened and stripped. I thought more of the screws were hex heads but most are the cross heads. The bags are not numbered as per Tamiya's usual either but its easy to work out what bag is what.

[jimmy]

I did it opposite to DCM, I didnt glue the outdrive to the plastic holder - but I did glue the diff ring to the plastic holder..... that is on the DF03 which looks to have similar construction.

[drinternat]

Jimmy,

The sooner you get your car and do a review on the build the happier ill be

[DCM]

ah yes, I remember now, do it Jimmy's way, the plate spins on the holder otherwise!

[wayneski]

so jimmy whithout sounding like an annoying self interested Tw*t when will you be getting this model and doing a review?

[jimmy]

I should maybe get it the back end of this week - and start it pretty much right away.

[DCM]

mine is stuck in customs grrrrr..... I will use Stella next time

[budgio]

Originally Posted by DCM

mine is stuck in customs grrrrr..... I will use Stella next time

Same here mate .......so annoying i should,ve used stella.

[DCM]

I used rc-champ thinking I would get it quicker... stella is faster

[Chris Green]

LMAO! I was just searching for Stella Models, as its a shop I hadn't heard of before.

StellaModels.com

mmm. Maria Paeck is my personal favourite at the moment.

Don't worry, its not POrn!

[drinternat]

You guys need to bite the bullet next time. Support your local sheriff (or the shops in the UK that have stocks) and play one against the other for the best price. (Easy for me to say. My wife bought mine for my Xmas)

[DCM]

lets just say, the price I paid, retail, is less than the shops in the UK can buy it at trade, and those shops who had them in early had done what I had done, bought abroad....

[jimmy]

That's pretty crazy when you think about it. I bought mine overseas - if someone wants to give me one for free to review go for it, but I already have too many cars than I have time for - I need to get a car asap (hence overseas - stalled launches are a new thing on me!) and cheap as possible since I spend far far farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrr too much on oople.com as it is.

if I could steal the thing I would.

[DCM]

should get some hot driver to autograh the cars and flog em on FleaBay... or stage a burglary, and get the money of the insurance company heehee

[Carlos69]

I wonder if Tamiya will bring out a DB01 centre oneway pulley ...? I also wonder if the TOA5 centre oneway (16T) pulley is adaptable....hmmmm,...I wonder ?!

[jimmy]

They failed to bring one out for the 501X - but you never know. Hupo Honigl said they were working on it (for the 501X) but not sure what happened there.

[DCM]

it would need a shorter gear adaptor and a larger gear on for the one-way, thats it.