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Just make sure you don't cross-polarize the injector wiring. This message brought to you by Rivet Counters Chapter 48

Excellent post! Marcus> I suggest if you can find a used/replacement speed controller board cheap enough to go that route rather than mess with an unknown quantity of failed parts on the board you have, it may be the difference in resurrecting your tool or finishing it off permanently.

very nice.... unfortunately, I have to get one of these kits now...my brain told me that I've never seen an El Camino version of of a Rivvy.

There is a specific thread for our 1:1 cars in the General folder... hint, hint...

I seem to recall seeing those headlights on a show rod kit...

Depends on how carbonized the board has gotten, I've had some work and some that literally caught fire due to catastrophic failure.

Since I can't see any code rings on it, I'm thinking the value was printed.

The r3 on the circuit board means it is a resistor. Contrary to common experience, some precision wire-wound resistors do have their value printed on them, I would post an example but I'm typing this on my phone. Burned resistors rarely give proper value readings so I wouldn't trust it if you do get a reading. To reduce the risk of failure or fire you need to find an exact replacement resistor, that one looks like it may be a half or one watt rated wire-wound resistor. Try searching for photos of your speed controller online, you may find one that shows what resistor goes there.

I concur, those are fantastic looking wheels, nice design and great craftsmanship.

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Looks more like a wire-wound resistor, most of the time the values are printed on these.

Ahh...thank you for playing. I'm just guessing you've heard of the "potfur" also...

is that because 1:1 electrons won't fit through 1/25 scale wires?

Well, this thread took a sour turn. I had already poked at John about his transmission details, when there was no response I let it go... Can we just let this go and enjoy John's work when he puts it here?

will that include "Making the Correct Size Muffler Bearings" and "Adding the Correct Day-n-Night Rear-view Mirror Lever" ?

I'm guessing most detailers do drill the plug holes, makes it easier to tailor the wire lengths, at least it does for me when I'm doing wires.

That was a fine bit of rivet counting...

My wife thanks you too...

no need to do all that...just make the tranny with four reverse gears and one forward gear and yer all set. 8) I guess I will get to build that beastie myself with a flat-6.

wow...that's a LOT like building a real car except there's a lot less wrenching and a lot more gluing....I'm guessing there's probly the same amount of swearing.

I thought it was the 58 Henway...not Henderson. You don't have to worry about threadcount on the seats of the Scripps-Booth Mosquito, it had the new and improved Gel seats...

the hood ports that we have all grown to hate also seem a bit larger "scale-wise" than the 1:1 version. and what's up with everyone sticking those fake Buick fender ports on their cars....??!!! that's almost more ridiculous than those "fart cans" they tack onto the exhaust. I do like the tires and wheels though.

I suggest if you have a local hobbyshop that deals in RC stuff to take on of the tires you want to use there and see if any of the RC wheels will fit, most of the staff at my local hobbyshops seem happy to help with stuff like this. I have seen 1/10, 1/12 and 1/8 scale RC stuff so there might be something you can use.

be different, put the flat four in front of the firewall replace the transaxle with a 4-speed tranny and fit a third member from a TR4a in the back end. then you could whip up an external oil cooler to put in a shortened Model T radiator shroud. or you can forget all that and I'll just have to do it later myself with a Corvair engine I've had sitting around for a while.

I did this and found quite a few decent looking options, click or paste this into your browser address box: https://www.google.c...NEqmf2QWTyoC4Ag 1/8 scale RC and diecast would seem to be your best options.