Late 1980s Vintage Tamiya HotShot II and Hornet (10th scale RC cars) – Page 2 – Chat Forum

GrahamS · 2017-09-08T12:50:22Z

A mate of mine found these in his mum's attic. Apparently they used to be his brothers. He was planning to fling them as worthless, but knowing that I like to tinker with stuff he wondered if I might like them instead. :D [b]Tamiya Hot Shot II (Kit No 5862)[/b] [url[url[url[url[urlTamiya Hornet (Kit No 5845) [urlManuals: Copyright says 1987. Amazing how much work people had to put into making these things compared to today's toys. There are steps for assembling the gear boxes, filling the suspension dampers, pinning together the linkages, and of course painting and applying the stickers. [urlDecidedly dodgy looking electrics. That charger is literally a transformer and a mechanical cooking timer. But amazingly those Ni-Cad batteries still seem to take a charge! [urlThe big question is: what do I do with them? I've investigated the Hot Shot a bit and it looks mechanically sound. Pretty simple construction really: basically just two servos driven off the receiver. One servo does the steering and the other rotates an arm on a big variable resistor to act as the speed control. A lot of the wires are frayed and exposed though so I wouldn't dare try to power it up without replacing a lot of them. The Hornet is pretty much just a shell and frame. No receiver and missing come linkages. I'm quite tempted to gut them and see if I can get it all working so my daughter's can play with it (ahem!). But out of curiosity I had a look on eBay and found [urlHotShot 1 sold for £170[/url] (and I saw [urlunbuilt Hot Shot 2 kit go for £500[/url]!! 8O ) So I'm also tempted just to flog them. Thoughts?

stumpy01

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Yeah, fair enough.
Tamiya ESC is only £15 though so not exactly money pit material.

http://www.fusionhobbies.com/product/45057-tamiya-tble-02s-brushed-brushless-esc

Although worth checking it'll work with your other kit.
The bloke who runs that site is a colleague of mine and well clued up on Tamiya stuff.

Posted : 09/09/2017 9:38 pm

GrahamS

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The bloke who runs that site is a colleague of mine and well clued up on Tamiya stuff.

Would you mind asking him what a used 1987 Hot Shot II with original box and manual is worth these days?

And if I am better off trying to get it to run with replacement parts before selling it, or just flogging it non-running but with whatever parts it has on it.

Thanks.

I'm happy to tinker with it, but I don't want to be the guy on Antiques Roadshow who's had a go at restoring a Rembrandt in his shed with some leftover Dulux. 😆

Posted : 11/09/2017 9:30 am

giantalkali

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Somewhere deep in a cupboard at my parent's place is a Tamiya Bearhawk with a Schumacher Ultrastock motor. Runtimes back in 1990 topped out at about 3 minutes 🙁

I wonder if it's worth retrieving for the child to smash up...

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Posted : 11/09/2017 9:51 am

racefaceec90

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i'll just leave this here 😀

Posted : 11/09/2017 9:59 am

GrahamS

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Awesome. The steering on the Wild Willy looks a bit frantic! 😆

Posted : 11/09/2017 12:31 pm

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