Traxxas Spartan

[Make-a-Wake]

Thanks for the vid................6s outta be a hoot!

[oscarel]

One of the better video's so far, looks like it handles really nice on 4s and is pretty quick. Was that still about 33 mph like the data showed?

Yes, that was the run from the data in post #36 for 4s.

[GeoVW72]

Here you go, it's not the best quality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOshzDb6s58

Isn't that the same pond traxxas used

[Make-a-Wake]

Isn't that the same pond traxxas used

Thats the first thing i thought of when the vid came up!

[oscarel]

I even used the same park table!

[Brushless55]

Was this with the stock prop Oscar?

[oscarel]

No, that was with X442.

[GeoVW72]

thought it looked the same, had to find the other videos to compare

I still don't have a boat, but I did get a VXL-6s and motor on ebay
had fun today tearing them apart.

the "stainless" hardware is bad screws are still somewhat magnetic too soft, stripped the head on one
if anyone is going to attempt to take the motor apart you at least need to heat the end caps up to loosen the thread-lock
the motor jacket is interesting(turned inside-out for pic) seems loose but works

esc is sealed in goo, good rubycon caps. anything else would require getting it out of the goo, but looks similar to a castle to me
'course I'm looking for it to be a castle, board length looks the same, lower controller board bump

any thoughts on escs designed similar to castle's?

[Brushless55]

thought it looked the same, had to find the other videos to compare

I still don't have a boat, but I did get a VXL-6s and motor on ebay
had fun today tearing them apart.

the "stainless" hardware is bad screws are still somewhat magnetic too soft, stripped the head on one
if anyone is going to attempt to take the motor apart you at least need to heat the end caps up to loosen the thread-lock
the motor jacket is interesting(turned inside-out for pic) seems loose but works

esc is sealed in goo, good rubycon caps. anything else would require getting it out of the goo, but looks similar to a castle to me
'course I'm looking for it to be a castle, board length looks the same, lower controller board bump

any thoughts on escs designed similar to castle's?

Traxxas does work with Castle on other products they have

if you don't mind me asking, how much did you have to pay for the motor?
Thanks for the killer picks of the insides

[Make-a-Wake]

Great pics!

[GeoVW72]

Always happy to pull something apart
sent an offer of $230 to someone who was parting out a boat, he sold the hull and accepted the offer
castle does work with traxxas, but not directly designing as far as I know

[oscarel]

Yeah, those are great pics.

[Brushless55]

Always happy to pull something apart
sent an offer of $230 to someone who was parting out a boat, he sold the hull and accepted the offer
castle does work with traxxas, but not directly designing as far as I know

$230! rip off
traxxas does use Castle products
but then again this could be an esc straight from Taiwan

[martin]

Theirs magnetic & non magnetic stainless steel, The magnetic has more iron content. It is usually tougher than the non magnetic but does get traces of rust spots on it due to the extra iron content. I had a simular silicon water jacket come on an Hor Osprey fitted with a Leopard 4074, The jacket had splits in the silicon where both brass pipes had been put in, The silicon was very thin in places. Luckily i noticed it before i ran it otherwise id have had pumped water into the boat. So i would do a water test with silicon jackets just to make sure its water tight. Thanks Martin.

[Brushless55]

Not sure yet, but I may cancel my Spart order at Tower for the new
AquaCraft Motley Crew Off-Shore FE Catamaran Boat
designed with racers in mind
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0002p?M=AQU