Mongol Pete
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- 145
- Location
- Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Greetings from Mongolia Barrage fans,
This build started great and has quickly taken a turn for the worst. I was very pleased with the build experience, for the most part. Just a heads up, the gearbox and the axles need grease. I heat wrapped the pins in the front axles to keep them from escaping, and then I flipped and later removed the front cross member to get more suspension clearance for the servo. Then I moved the shocks up to the top position to drop the chassis.
However, I am very disappointed to report that the TEAM STAB Barrage broke badly on the maiden crawl! What's worse, and shocking, is that it broke falling less than a foot from the sofa onto a carpet. It broke before we even crawled it outside, before it even touched a rock! One of the body posts split and the screw going through the left steering spindle snapped in two, leaving the bottom half in the now useless spindle. Add to that the fact that the stock servo is too weak to turn the wheels, and I am left with a very disappointing first impression of what I believed was a great value crawler. I hope Horizon Hobby will make this right. I have heard good things about their customer support.
For now, at least I can say that we are happy with our Amp BTD kit, but the Barrage unfortunately leaves too much to be desired, especially in the all important durability catagory. I hope I will have better experiences with this kit in the future.
Here are some pics,
MP
This build started great and has quickly taken a turn for the worst. I was very pleased with the build experience, for the most part. Just a heads up, the gearbox and the axles need grease. I heat wrapped the pins in the front axles to keep them from escaping, and then I flipped and later removed the front cross member to get more suspension clearance for the servo. Then I moved the shocks up to the top position to drop the chassis.
However, I am very disappointed to report that the TEAM STAB Barrage broke badly on the maiden crawl! What's worse, and shocking, is that it broke falling less than a foot from the sofa onto a carpet. It broke before we even crawled it outside, before it even touched a rock! One of the body posts split and the screw going through the left steering spindle snapped in two, leaving the bottom half in the now useless spindle. Add to that the fact that the stock servo is too weak to turn the wheels, and I am left with a very disappointing first impression of what I believed was a great value crawler. I hope Horizon Hobby will make this right. I have heard good things about their customer support.
For now, at least I can say that we are happy with our Amp BTD kit, but the Barrage unfortunately leaves too much to be desired, especially in the all important durability catagory. I hope I will have better experiences with this kit in the future.
Here are some pics,
MP