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Just made sure my Mutilator and Speed-NT were ARO'd for storage, and got to thinking. How do you prep your nitros for a cold winter?

I have yet to think of a good place to store mine, since my garage isn't heated, and I have had chemicals freeze during a cold winter, and my basement sucks, it's always damp. Might have to clean out a closet and make some shelves!

Do 2.4ghz transmitters lose their memories if the batteries are removed for long periods?
 
Hi there !

Store it near your heating sytem in your basement ?
alien13 said:
Just made sure my Mutilator and Speed-NT were ARO'd for storage, and got to thinking. How do you prep your nitros for a cold winter?

I have yet to think of a good place to store mine, since my garage isn't heated, and I have had chemicals freeze during a cold winter, and my basement sucks, it's always damp. Might have to clean out a closet and make some shelves!

Do 2.4ghz transmitters lose their memories if the batteries are removed for long periods?
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If your really concerned, you could take the engines off, pickle them (lots of ARO inside), clean them up and put them in a ziplock baggie to store inside. Less space needed. That's what I do with my backup engines when they aren't being used. I have an old tired OS21RG that I run in the winter since I don't care about it.
 
I got your cold weather Florida man...;) Yeah, totally jealous.:) I do the same thing olds does. My family doesn't enjoy my Maxx in the living room like I do, so I pop the engine off, make sure it's aro'd real good, and put it in a plastic baggy. I try to work most of the air out of the bag. Makes me feel better. Now, the RC10 I've had for 10 years has lived it's whole life in the garage. Finally got it running this year, and it runs so well, I think it gets to spend the winter indoors too. Didn't seem to affect it much sitting out in the ambient temp all that time, but now that it turned out to be a screamer, I couldn't sleep knowing it was cold and damp.:)
 
olds97_lss said:
I run one of my rigs in that white stuff... Last year was the savage, this year will be my revo since it's been so reliable.
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I'd like to run the savage in the snow, but since my force .32 is down, I don't have any old engines to run. How bad is it for a new engine to run in the winter? I can pre-heat it and bring it in the house when I'm done, and wrap the head before I run, would that be enough?

I like the idea of jumping snowbanks, sounds like fun!
 
Well... each believes his own experience usually, but I have had experience with running newer engines in the winter and they don't hold up well. Then again, it seems to be more of an issue for a newer engine, like in the midst of break-in or breaking in. The XTM I ran in my revo all summer was run all last winter in my savage. Seemed to run fine this summer if you ignore the OWB issues (really bad slipping).

You won't catch me running my good summer engines in the winter though. I'd rather burn up a $120 engine than a $200 engine just for fun. The performance in the winter is hideous due to the severely fluctuating temperature of the engine. If you can keep it running semi-stable, then your doing good. So running a more expensive and powerful engine is somewhat pointless.

My advice would be that if you want to run in the winter, run the engine you have now, but save up over the winter for a new one in the spring. Then you will have one you can run in the winter (this year and next) and not be so concerned about the spring coming and your engine being weak.
 
olds97_lss said:
My advice would be that if you want to run in the winter, run the engine you have now, but save up over the winter for a new one in the spring. Then you will have one you can run in the winter (this year and next) and not be so concerned about the spring coming and your engine being weak.
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If all goes well, I want to get either an LRP 28S3, or an LRP .30 to drop in next spring. Or I could suck it up, order the head button for my .32, put it back together, and drop that in for the winter.
 
IMO - you definitely want to run something this winter. The snow is a lot of fun if the temps aren't too ridiculously low.

For what it's worth and as Olds stated "each believes his own experience", I don't don't do any special prep for the winter on my Savage. It sets in my garage(attached-semi heated)all year 'round. I do think I'll take STS .28 off(first year I've had it on) and use the stock .25 though,it's been almost trouble free in the snow. I haven't even waterproofed any of the electrics. Lucky I'm sure,but I dry it off with a heat gun every time after running in snow,making sure that I hold it in a way that water runs away from important items. It's survived 4 winters so far - knock on wood!
 
Anytime I've run in the snow I came back a few days later to find my wheel bearings were seized or at least notchy. I don't do snow, but in the cold dry weather I run my well worn engines. I have extra heads this year, I'm gonna cut them down so they run warmer on those 30 degree days. I want them to run around 180-210 in 30 degree weather so they'll still be useable when it's 50 something out. Then if it's over 50 I just switch heads and all's well. I'm going to put my 18tm's, 454's, and s27 in bags this year, leaving the 3.3 on my beater revo. I hate to even do that, since my 3.3 runs better than any trx engine I've encountered so far.
 
This is a tricky situation, especially since it is so much fun to rip in the snow. With mother nature supplying all of the track/jump building material for free, it's hard to pass up. But I do believe that planning ahead and saving for a rebuild or a new mill is mandatory. Stuff happens, and you can expect to pack your head with snow, from roll overs or a jump gone wrong, at least a few times. I'd suppose even once would wreak havoc on the pinch. My plan was to run my OS .18 over the winter, then send it off for a rebuild/mod job. I just don't know if I can bring myself to do it. This engine runs spot on, with just over a gallon through it...:)
 
Metalhead Matt said:
This is a tricky situation, especially since it is so much fun to rip in the snow. With mother nature supplying all of the track/jump building material for free, it's hard to pass up. But I do believe that planning ahead and saving for a rebuild or a new mill is mandatory. Stuff happens, and you can expect to pack your head with snow, from roll overs or a jump gone wrong, at least a few times. I'd suppose even once would wreak havoc on the pinch. My plan was to run my OS .18 over the winter, then send it off for a rebuild/mod job. I just don't know if I can bring myself to do it. This engine runs spot on, with just over a gallon through it...:)
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I wouldn't, them os engines run awesome!
 
I hear ya man. I know that in the spring, I'll be able to throw this engine back in the Maxx and go like hell again for the whole summer.
 
Racer 1966 said:
IMO - you definitely want to run something this winter. The snow is a lot of fun if the temps aren't too ridiculously low.
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I think this has been touched on before, so I apologize, but...what do you guys consider too cold to run?
 
25F or less usually keeps me indoors.

I'm usually able to get out a few times around Christmas time. I have taken Christmas and new years weeks off from work for the past 10 years... I tend to burn about 1/2-1 gallon of fuel over Christmas break.

Not this year... being management sucks! Most of my guys are off and leaving them to their own devices could be disastrous.
 
Thanks guys! Guess that means the Revo's parked for the majority of the Alberta winter...
 

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