When I was about 10 years old, the nice guy at the hobby shop showed me how to do all of this. I miss hobby shops!

@nitromancer6460

5 ай бұрын

There a few around and we need to buy our stuff from them when possible.

nice video! thanks for the share!

Circa 1965 I would modify a thunder. Jet chassis into a 4 wheel drive ! Just splice two gear trains together and flop second crown gear over...really raced FAST !!

@nitromancer6460

5 ай бұрын

I bet that really helped make it run better because I always needed more traction. I tried that but never had glue strong enough to hold the top plate together.

I will take the tube of polish and with just a little dab sticking out of the tube, I put the tube right on the armature commutator. This leaves a nice circular spot of polish. I use a cloth (I’ve even used a paper towel) and rub off the polish. I repeat until I get a shine. It make take two or three applications; one car in this batch took ten times to get it clean. It won’t matter exactly how you do it. Just smear a thin coating and rub it off.

Can you please explain exactly how you polish the commutator with the simichrome polish? Thank you

Those are totally restorable.

@nitromancer6460

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely they are restorable. At this point I’m just looking for running chassis. Often I keep about half & sell off the ones I won’t use.

@JeffRyan

6 ай бұрын

Personally, I'd be think able I'd be able to restore a number of those bodies back to factory minty-freshness-ness. I'm up for the challenge.

@nitromancer6460

6 ай бұрын

@jeffryan What’s your email?

@jettafixer7

4 ай бұрын

I know you could do it.@@JeffRyan

@JeffRyan

4 ай бұрын

@@jettafixer7 do tell.