Hi, new to the group been out of the rc game for a while . Picked up this crawler today at a garage sale for 30 bucks. A couple questions I have are,what model is this? The transmitter and receiver are traxxas or is it a Frankenstein? Secondly did I do ok for the money? I’m sure I will have many more questions as I decide to get back in hobby. Thx
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That looks like an XTM X 1/8 crawler to me, but modified a bit. The chassis looks different.
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it looks really cool! i think you did cool.
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I'm not really into crawlers but for $30... I'd have to guess you did well!
Looks like a fun truck to try even just to get back into RC again.
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I'm not really into crawlers but for $30... I'd have to guess you did well!
Looks like a fun truck to try even just to get back into RC again.
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Yeah, I think you did ok, I'd have bought it just for curiosity!
Yeah, I think you did ok, I'd have bought it just for curiosity!
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Welcome in @nelly1199 , cool rig. For $30 it was a awesome find.
There is well over $30 in parts.
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I'm pretty sure you'll get more than $30.00 worth of fun out of it.
I'm pretty sure you'll get more than $30.00 worth of fun out of it.
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What's cool about that rig is it is a dual motor on axle (MOA) crawler. With the right radio, you can setup channel mixing on a knob to control the overdrive or underdrive on each axle. Then you can dial in front wheel drive, equal drive, rear wheel drive etc on the fly with just the turn of a knob. Your current radio won't do that though, but you can buy a decent radio with channel mixing for around $125 or so. Here's a video on doing that with the Radiomaster MT12 for example. Lots of radios have similar capabilities.
