RC Cars: Do-It-Yourself Help (Part 1)

Not everyone is a engineering geek and even if one is then sometimes a quick tip or a helping advice is always welcome. We all want some kind of help on how to keep all unwanted particles coming into your car. A simple remedy to the same can be securing your air filter. Anther option can be to buy du-bro body clip retainers and make sure that they remain clipped and do not get loose.

Sometimes your car may act fancy. Like if you turn on your car, it keeps steering to one side. This may happen even if you keep the wheels straight. A good idea in this case would be to give a check if your car has a “steering trim” knob/wheel/button option. If there is none then may be adjusting steering servo armature length should do the trick.

A lot of dirt gets accumulated under the chassis and the most to get affected are the screw heads. To get clean and sparkling screw heads under the chassis, spray denatured alcohol on screw heads and then pick the dirt with the help of paper clip. It is an effective way to clean your screw heads that are packed with dirt enough so that your hex driver can have enough meat to grab on. It is recommended to use denatured alcohol as it seems to work better than the simple green or motor cleaner.

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