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Archives for March 2022

LaTrax Servo Replacement

March 21, 2022 by justin 2 Comments

At our last outing to the frozen lake ice track, the stock servo in the LaTrax Prerunner finally gave up the ghost 👻 I figured it was a matter of time as I’ve replaced the included servos in all of our other ready-to-run vehicles: Slash & SCX24. I had a feeling this was inevitable.

I started with this video put together by the fine folks here in town at Dollar Hobbyz:

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Filed Under: Cars, Electric Off-Road Tagged With: kids, LaTrax, RTR Servo Dead, Traxxas

1/18 scale studded tires

March 7, 2022 by justin 2 Comments

Rather than making a snow track in the back yard this year, I decided to venture out and try some ice racing on a lake. There’s a group called MN R/C rally, rallycross and ice racers on Facebook and they create and maintain an ice track on Pickerel Lake in St. Paul.

Before we would visit the lake I wanted to make some studded tires for my daughter’s 1/18 LaTrax Prerunner.

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Filed Under: Cars, Electric Off-Road Tagged With: kids, LaTrax, Slash, snow, Traxxas

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