Couldn't find parts for mine locally.(lower arm, upper arm and servo saver) myrc said 4-5 weeks for the parts, so had to search the interweb thingy.
Got the last lower arm that rchobbyestore had listed

http://myworld.ebay.com.au/rchobbyestore/

I get most of my parts from rchighperformacehobbies on ebay, however sometimes they can be slack with there postage, and I hate postage being late, i will pay extra to get it delivered express if I have to...

http://stores.ebay.com.au/RC-High-Perfo ... ies?_rdc=1

Yeah I like myrc, all of his stuff is in his garage of you have been there, nice guy. I try and get most stuff from him, but allot of his stuff is for the nitro stuff, and 1/10

Yeah, been round to Troys a couple o' times so far.
The guys at OZ RC @ Geebung have some HSP (so i've been told)
And the guy at Willowong handy to me as well

Mine was the dining table. I religously put white paper down on it first. I glued some tyres onto the rims the other day with CA and thought they were dry and placed them domn on bare table one by one. glue leaked out and stuck em to the table, now my workbench is outside on the brick pavers right mear the couch that i sleep on at the moment. EPIC FAIL

Haha nice, yeah I use to use the Dining table, until I burnt a hole in the top of it, and spilt solder on it, and... Lol, then I got given a desk yay for me, and its inside to haha....

Nice Siggers. That storage container under the bronty for all your parts, is from Aldi and is the same one I use for all my parts lol

I actually got the Red and black one from the Reject Shop ($10), and the clear one, I don't remember, had it for AGES... So much good stuff to use at those bargain shops, I saw a set of o rings there, but I don't think they are small enough for the diff cups, only like 2mm to big...

Red, Black and Clear. You've lost me? The big flat container with the black base and clear lid is the one I am talking about? I don't see any others?

The one laying down is the black with clear top, and red dividers, and there is a smaller clear one, hard to see which is on the right sitting on top of the big one...

Gotcha

A typical Friday night .. wife at work .. parts strewn all over the dinner table .. everything packs back into the two aluminium boxes then is banished back to the garage for the week.

It's a shamless hobby ain't it stanto.
I've been in the garage the whole week toiling away from the family in my room of insanity!!
The family has become fatherless
Oh well

haha oh well. Nice to see some commitment

hahahahha, quiet time

Parts washing
Half the fun of RC buggies is the cleaning (not!)

Here's a system that I used in my cycling days but works really well with the RC parts for cleaning/de-greasing the smallest and the biggest parts.

We're big coffee drinkers at my place and Maconna is our choice of poison, great coffee and even better jars.
We buy the BIG jars and they make great cleaning jars....

Here's my system..


4 Jars with Kero, Niftti (Spray Cleaner), water and metho in them. (in that order)
I use the large jars as you can get your hand into them easily and they are large enough to put in a whole front or rear assembly (minus the wheels)

A parts bag made out of a bit of fly screen folded in half and stapled along the sides, leaving the top open.
And a bulldog clip to close it of at the top for the smaller parts.



I just drop all the components into the bag, fold the top over and clip it closed then drop it into the jar, seal it and shake the s#!t out of it then let it stand for a while then shake it again

I then pull the whole bag out and let it sit on top to drain the excess liquid out.....



Then move it to the next jar and do the same.

I then open the bag contents out onto some paper towel to let the metho evaporate then I drop the parts into a small labeled container and spray with a bit WD40 then onto the shelf ready for the rebuild.




If I'm cleaning bearings I like to "repack" the bearing grease by using HT bearing grease into a sandwich bag and massage in the grease into the bearings while they are inside the bag



It's taken me about 2 weeks but I now have a fully functioning workshop that I find easy to work in.



Hope someone finds this helpful

Cheers

Tim

Onya Tim for the thread.

If the bearings have good seals, I very much doubt whether you can "massage re-fill" them.

Your workshop environment looks very sterile, unlike my "beyond the black sump" rural conditions here in the bush.
Dirt road and closest neighbour about 2km. A very down to earth, rural existence in isolation. GREAT !!

Might post some pictures later, as to the hobby overtaking my house; (with no missus after 36 years plus; to winge and complain no more).

I now have brought my hobbies into MY house, once I got the goats, cooks and ducks to stay outside.
My bedroom door was kept closed, so I slept in a clean environment.
The shower area was no problem, as I worked away any animal deposits with my feet, down the drain, as I was showering.
It was good for the feet, with the absorption of urea etc.

However, there was nothing worse than fresh animal crapp on the carpets or lino, causing buggy wheel-spin, or trying to find an C clip, flicked of into a pile of chook s#!t, on the kitchen table.

This is fixed now; the pets are temporallily banned from the house; and all their crapp has since dried.

The large kitchen table is now "The technical work area", with adjacent tool and small parts racks.

The lounge room is my parts storage, heli storage, battery storage / charging and memorabilia area.

The engineering workshop is in the BIG shed, with dirt floor.

The technical communications area, is in another room; where I am sitting right now;
TYPING ALL OF THIS CRAPP.

Nice one Tim. Excellend post. I prefer to put off the whole cleaning thing, but if I was going to do it, I would try and follow your industries lead!

PS - I love the decepticon on your bench

Decepticon? What Decepticon? Where? Is that what keeps moving my tools and screws about while I'm not looking. I'm going to have to get Megan Fox around to keep an eye out for it!!
"Yes Hun, I do need her here, just to keep an eye out for the Decepticons

I just looked up, Mannum, South Australia, on Google maps.

you are BEYOND THE BLACK STUMP

Good idea. I will have to beat you to her!