It has a mind of its own!!
 

I have finished rebuilding the tamiya double blaze I got off of eBay. However when I connected the battery pack the thing shot off!!!

I checked the on/off switch and the throttle control but eveything is as it should be. Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers, mark

turn the receiver on first, make sure the crystals match.

Cool I will give that a go. The crystals should match as the servos came with the receiver, I never knew turning the controller on first would make a difference.

Cheers, mark

I did exactly the same thing when I got my first rc car :lol: mine smashed into the garden table and busted a couple of parts before I'd even used it. I learnt after that too.

I feel like a right idiot, the rubber marks on the sideboard didn't go down too well with the girlfriend. But then again I am fixing her Mini Inferno :)

Take the pinion off the motor, then turn the tranny on:wtf:, and then the car. Once you know it's all ok put the pinion back on.

Tis the start of the learning curve :thumbsup:

Or simply lift the drive wheels... TBH you should always do this when using crystals (rather than 2.4) just to make sure no-one else is turned on using the same frequency.

We've all done it though so easy! My wife still not forgiven me after I broke a glass!

Also put the ariel up before switching on. After useing 2.4ghz for a ages when I used my old jr-propo tx I forgot about the ariel and the dam thing went 20yards then went ballistic shot off at full speed and smashed into a kerb and snapped the chassis in two.

reprograme the esc to the radio gear is always good place to start and always make sure transmitter is always first on and last off.

it could be a mechanic speedo a lot of tamiya's came with back in the day with a slow servo

A good thread could be started on this subject, tell us about problems youve had, like your car shooting across the lounge and smashing into the tv haha What have you done???

Cheers for the help guys. I have managed to get it sorted at last, it is the mechanical servo type. It was really freaky watching this thing lurch back and forth like something from the exocist!!! :)

Would be an even funnier YouTube clip that!!

many moons ago at a large indoor off road event (which even now makes me cringe ) i hastily rebuilt a brushed motor for a final dropped on the grid ready for the off waited for the buzzer then reversed into most of the the other finalists :thumbdown:

dave

That is bloody funny :woot:

A few apologies me thinks

That's what Im talking about! That made me laugh out loud hehe.
Im sure you can laugh about it now :D