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Aran 27-09-2012 03:45 PM

Tresrey battery strap + black chassis
 
spotted this on the Tresrey blog!

http://tresrey.img.jugem.jp/20120927_2319842.jpg
http://tresreyblog.com/

The battery strap looks pretty good, don't see anything wrong with the stock one though, but I am interested in the milled out black anodised chassis! You can see it in one of the pictures :thumbsup:

AfroP 27-09-2012 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aran (Post 698548)
spotted this on the Tresrey blog!

http://tresrey.img.jugem.jp/20120927_2319842.jpg
http://tresreyblog.com/

The battery strap looks pretty good, don't see anything wrong with the stock one though, but I am interested in the milled out black anodised chassis! You can see it in one of the pictures :thumbsup:

Could be the new moulded chasis off the rtr model.

OneKiwi 28-09-2012 06:27 AM

Damn that revention pro isn't small is it

jo90 28-09-2012 06:54 AM

Why has the guy put a generator in his car...oh no wait, thats the speedo. :woot:

Aran 28-09-2012 09:45 AM

Does the plastic chassis have some milling at the front, looked aluminium to me!

The new sp pro disappointed me, thought it would be smaller

bender 28-09-2012 10:28 AM

the chassis pictured there is clearly aluminium, you can see the milled sections - i'd be amazed if that was moulded, plus you can see the colour difference between the chassis and the other plastic parts close to it

/tobys 28-09-2012 10:35 AM

RDRP chassis? Exotek maybe?

Will be an aftermarket part from someone...

Aran 28-09-2012 10:55 AM

its a Tresrey chassis ;)

probably +8mm too

Darren Boyle 28-09-2012 10:56 AM

I doubt that it is either of those two, since RDRP's is not out yet and currently Exotek have no plans to make one....

AndyG 28-09-2012 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneKiwi (Post 698748)
Damn that revention pro isn't small is it

quite like the look of the Reventon, so I took a look at sizes....

HPI Flux Pro - 37.5 x 37 x 29.5mm (with fan)
LRP Flow - 32 x 34 x 21mm (no fan)
LRP/Nosram SXX V2 - 30.5x33x21mm (no fan)
LRP/Nosram SXX V1 - 30.5x34x21mm (no fan) < what I currently use
Reventon Pro - 40 x 35 x 20mm (no fan)

not promising for a Durango 410, but not too different from a Flux Pro !!

Good price / feature set though.

Darren Boyle 28-09-2012 01:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndyG (Post 698840)
quite like the look of the Reventon, so I took a look at sizes....

HPI Flux Pro - 37.5 x 37 x 29.5mm (with fan)
LRP Flow - 32 x 34 x 21mm (no fan)
LRP/Nosram SXX V2 - 30.5x33x21mm (no fan)
LRP/Nosram SXX V1 - 30.5x34x21mm (no fan) < what I currently use
Reventon Pro - 40 x 35 x 20mm (no fan)

not promising for a Durango 410, but not too different from a Flux Pro !!

Good price / feature set though.

The Vampire SR1+ is quite favourable compared with some of those sizes too at 30.6 x 33.8 x 32.1mm and is proving very popular also...

AndyG 28-09-2012 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndyG (Post 698840)
quite like the look of the Reventon, so I took a look at sizes....

HPI Flux Pro - 37.5 x 37 x 29.5mm (with fan)
LRP Flow - 32 x 34 x 21mm (no fan)
LRP/Nosram SXX V2 - 30.5x33x21mm (no fan)
LRP/Nosram SXX V1 - 30.5x34x21mm (no fan) < what I currently use
Reventon Pro - 40 x 35 x 20mm (no fan)

not promising for a Durango 410, but not too different from a Flux Pro !!

Good price / feature set though.

For the Reventon, the "footprint" is listed as 35 x 35 x 20mm, but the manual says "size" is 40 x 35 x 20mm - guessing the difference is the PCB extrusion.

Need to compare apples with apples. 35x35 isn't too bad.

Aran 29-09-2012 11:46 AM

It's fits nice snug, seen the new sp Reventon pro in a dex410 and it seemed alright, but depends on your reciever too I guess!

AndyG 08-10-2012 04:00 PM

really? wow.

Got a picture ? would love to see that !

OneKiwi 08-10-2012 04:58 PM

If thats the molded chassis then that brace is surly going to stiffen it up if one set of screw holes aren't elongated

Aran 09-10-2012 11:49 AM

its official now! its a lightened chassis, except production model is clear anodised not black
http://www.area52.cc/news/2859-tresr...ck-towers.html

Cream 09-10-2012 12:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aran (Post 702273)
its official now! its a lightened chassis, except production model is clear anodised not black
http://www.area52.cc/news/2859-tresr...ck-towers.html


Wow I guess Tresery really did like my tower conversion. Guess it may be time to start just selling direct again and reducing the price.

Aran 09-10-2012 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cream (Post 702283)
Wow I guess Tresery really did like my tower conversion. Guess it may be time to start just selling direct again and reducing the price.

I think a few copycats liked your shock towers!

av4625 09-10-2012 10:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cream (Post 702283)
Wow I guess Tresery really did like my tower conversion. Guess it may be time to start just selling direct again and reducing the price.

dude if i was you i would be rippin u designed the bloody thing and made and it looks beast and now 2 or 3 other companys are making EXACTLY the same thing with no differences god damn!

Cream 09-10-2012 11:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by av4625 (Post 702509)
dude if i was you i would be rippin u designed the bloody thing and made and it looks beast and now 2 or 3 other companys are making EXACTLY the same thing with no differences god damn!

Gives me open house to do the same to them. Which I've done my best to avoid in the past. I still belive mine is the best. Made from high grade light weight materials.

Aran 10-10-2012 12:00 AM

make a lightened chassis, one standard length, one +8mm length. you can't stop them, they can't stop you!

rcjunky 10-10-2012 01:45 PM

Of the few things I sell I've always made sure not to copy anyone when they first come out, but seeing this is basically saying they could care less if they rip anyone off. I can get somethng very similar done if there is interested. The cad files are done for the standard length, +8, ST and SC chassis are all done, so its just a matter of making them thicker and doing some milling in them, and making a jig to make the kick up thinner, but its all easily done if there interest. I'm just waiting to see what kind of price they release them at.

AfroP 10-10-2012 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cream (Post 702283)
Wow I guess Tresery really did like my tower conversion. Guess it may be time to start just selling direct again and reducing the price.

should always patent your designs dude
if its something you invented its worth securing and then you can sell licence to people like tresrey

Cream 10-10-2012 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AfroP (Post 702646)
should always patent your designs dude
if its something you invented its worth securing and then you can sell licence to people like tresrey

Do you know what a worldwide patent would cost? massive. for suprisingly little return, and certain countries don't give a stuff and make things anyway.

atomicsickness 10-10-2012 03:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rcjunky (Post 702630)
Of the few things I sell I've always made sure not to copy anyone when they first come out, but seeing this is basically saying they could care less if they rip anyone off. I can get somethng very similar done if there is interested. The cad files are done for the standard length, +8, ST and SC chassis are all done, so its just a matter of making them thicker and doing some milling in them, and making a jig to make the kick up thinner, but its all easily done if there interest. I'm just waiting to see what kind of price they release them at.

I would be interested in the +8 :)

Origineelreclamebord 10-10-2012 04:51 PM

It is kind of the best solution if you want a carbon tower on a DEX210, so it's no wonder Tresrey (and others apparently?) copied it. I still think the Cream one looks better (it's the details that do it) even though I would prefer to have the aluminium pieces anodized (just to prevent corrosion).

Anyway, nice bits by Tresrey. I'm not sure about the extra thickness of the chassis plate though: Won't that mean all bottom screws are 1mm less in the plastics, plus a few misalignments with the sidepods etc?

Darren Boyle 10-10-2012 06:15 PM

To be honest that "design" of alloy tower mounts with a seprate carbon tower was actually first used on the B4 and designed by KFactory, it has just been copied/adapted/carried on by "EVERYONE" else from there.

In our DMS Partz range we made a replacement carbon tower for the B4 mounts that KFactory did (since theirs was not available on its own if you broke it and ours was pure carbon at the time and theirs was not).

Noel (Cream) then made his superb mounts for these type of towers too (as did MK at the time, but the Cream ones were always much nicer - hence why we have teamed up with Noel to bag them with our towers in a set). Noel sold them also, then eventually made his own version of the "tower" so he could sell it with his mounts too in his own set.

The idea then got applied to other cars, including the DEX210, but lets not carried away here guys, the idea/design does in fact originate from KFactory, all others have copied, borrowed and improved on it from them....

This topic of "copying" came up a few weeks back about the RDRP option items for the DEX210 when they were accused of copying, yet in that case RDRP first showed their prototypes over 4 months before any others were even out, yet they still got accused of being the "copy cats", some people need to look at dates and facts before they point the finger incorrectly sadly.

At the end of the day, copying is never nice, how do you think X-Factory reacted when they saw the first mid motor buggies from Team C/Ansmann, they are as close as you can get without being exact in so many ways, but they have simply said they cannot stop it and that it is the best form of flattery to have somthing copied that closely............

Cream 10-10-2012 08:18 PM

You are right Darren. It was inspired by teh K-factory part for the b-4

I only started making them because K-factory stopped producing them yet there still apeared to be a demand. (I belive MK only started making them well after I started making them?)

The DEX210 version was thought up by me, wrapping the mount around the tower was as far as I'm aware completely new. All other versions at that time had just a flat carbon fiber replacment.
I've sold a lot of them, inc to Tresery USA. Who suprise suprise a few months later had a brass version made by 8-racing. Now followed by their own. Not that bothered, I know my product is stong, if it can withstand my driving all is good :D, just won't feel restricted if I feel I like an item they produce. You pay your money you make your choice.


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