Tamiya Denmark have announced that Steen Graversen is back with Tamiya. Steen has decided to go back to the Tamiya team, after some years as a Factory driver for Kyosho, and will have his first race with the new car at the EFRA Grand Prix in Prague next month. The multiple European Championship finalist will be racing the Tamiya TRF416WE in the first races, and will switch to the new TRF416X when it is released. The power will once again from Team Orion utilizing the Swiss company’s motors and batteries. Steen wished to say “many thanks, to the Kyosho Factory in Japan, for the last years”.

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Nosram have introduced a number of new items including their new line up of VTEC LiFe receiver packs and their VTEC pre glued Carpet tires. The batteries are a combination of today’s most used battery types, the robustness and impact resistance of NiMh batteries combined with the capacity, long lifetime and weight advantage of a LiPo battery. They also impress with a higher number of charge cycles and higher cell safety compared to LiPos and the further advantage is that it can be used without an extra RX-regulator. The new VTEC CPX tires offer a newly developed high-traction tire specially for indoor carpet racing. The pre-glued tire features a special low-profile design, which prevents traction-roll on medium to high-grip tracks. With the new CPX pre-glued carpet tire, Nosram also offers a wheel for carpet touring car racing that guarantees 100% controlled racing. The answer to all tyre cheating possibilities are the semi-transparent rims, through which you see the inside of the rims, the result is no cheating.

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Team Titan have introduced their new line up of arm reamers. Designed for resizing the arm hole to fit the suspension pin perfectly, they come in 3 sizes, 3.0mm, 3.5mm, 4.0mm. Sporting a lightweight blue anodised aluminium handle this is the best tool for freeing up your binding suspension.

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I’ve been on an RC kit building binge over the last several weeks. And it started with the Scorpion. The Axial AX10 is a 1:10 Scale Competition Rock Crawler comes in four different configurations or levels of completeness from ready-to-run (just add batteries) to a kit where you not only supply the electronics, you build the rock crawler.

With a kit, you assemble everything from putting together the gears and axles (step 1) to assembling the transmission (steps 15 through 18) to mounting the tires and body (steps 35 and 36)

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My Adventures in Building the Scorpion Rock Crawler originally appeared on About.com Radio Controlled Vehicles on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 09:10:30.

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