What Should I Do With It?

[HPIguy]

OK so I have a dilemma on my hands. I have an old Bender SW2 shafty (pic below) that at the time was built with all the cool stuff, Bender chassis, pede tranny, Integy lathe motor, Tekin Rebel ESC, blah blah. It's THE one RC I swore I'd never sell, due to the fact there was no kit, no instructions, and required some fab work on your part to make it all work together. But, I haven't touched it in probably two years ( only ran it maybe a dozen times and got bored since I had nobody to crawl with) and I'm starting to re-think that statement. My question is, is it even worth anything at all on the market, and are people even running shafty's anymore? I'm not going to give it away, but I know how re sell on the RC market works. So, do I throw it out there and be prepared to take a beating, or just keep it as an interesting item for my desk at work?

 

[Rolex]

I would suggest cleaning it, waxing it, doing up the tires with Armoral and putting it on a shelf.
...But hey, that's just me.

 

[slowngreen]

Honestly its not worth anything now really, wouldnt get much out of it at all. Nothing on it has a place it today's crawlers really. Axial axles and trans or losi' axles/trans are about the only shafty's that sale now days and you can get axial axles and trans for $60-70 used alot of the time, often with alot of hop ups too. I've bought complete axial rollers for $100 shipped which were only minus electronics...
Id just keep it if you dont want to basically give it away.

 

[abadk9420]

I would suggest cleaning it, waxing it, doing up the tires with Armoral and putting it on a shelf.
...But hey, that's just me.

Honestly its not worth anything now really, wouldnt get much out of it at all. Nothing on it has a place it today's crawlers really. Axial axles and trans or losi' axles/trans are about the only shafty's that sale now days and you can get axial axles and trans for $60-70 used alot of the time, often with alot of hop ups too. I've bought complete axial rollers for $100 shipped which were only minus electronics...
Id just keep it if you dont want to basically give it away.

X2 Or maybe use the axles and tranny in a scaler chassis. Just an idea if they would work for that.

 

[HPIguy]

I would suggest cleaning it, waxing it, doing up the tires with Armoral and putting it on a shelf.
...But hey, that's just me.

Yeah, as bad as I hate to do it, that's probably what will end up happening. Maybe do up a nice display body for it and all. I wonder if they'd freak out if I came into work carrying this and a bag or rocks to put on my desk?

Honestly its not worth anything now really, wouldnt get much out of it at all. Nothing on it has a place it today's crawlers really. Axial axles and trans or losi' axles/trans are about the only shafty's that sale now days and you can get axial axles and trans for $60-70 used alot of the time, often with alot of hop ups too. I've bought complete axial rollers for $100 shipped which were only minus electronics...
Id just keep it if you dont want to basically give it away.

That's about what I figured SNG, just needed to hear it from someone who's in the know on the crawler scene. Think there's any way to ditch the chassis and make a scaler from all the rest, or just a waste of time and money and be happy with it for what it is?

 

[rollinlow]

what axles is on it

 

[HPIguy]

what axles is on it

They're TLT axles rollinlow.

 

[rollinlow]

yea man u could make a nice scaler with most of the parts if u wanna do that tlt axles are still used

are u can sell it to me lol

 

[HPIguy]

yea man u could make a nice scaler with most of the parts if u wanna do that tlt axles are still used

are u can sell it to me lol

Sent you a PM.

 

[NCNitro]

Hell, I would make a scaler out of that for sure. TLT axles are nice to use because of their narrow width, and parts availability. You could still use the motor, axles, electronics and I'm sure many of the other parts to build a sweet scaler.