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[essex2visuvesi]

I'm not sure where to put this or if anyone is even interested, but over the weekend I had a bit of fun with my stepdaughters transmitter.

She's into RC cars and boats and has a Robbe Katja and a short course truck.  Both use the same old "hand me down" TX that I think I have owned since the mid 80's.

So while she was away at her dads for the weekend I had a plan.....
I carefully removed all the electrics and cleaned th case.  As I said the unit is years old and looking a little sorry for itself.



Next we masked up the black area as I wanted to keep this as it is


Off to the paints box and a quick experiment with some tamiya polycarbonate spray I had left over from painting her Katja.  Its stuck to the case very well and gave a nice durable finish



Yes its pink! very pink!
Have to say it looks so much better with the new paint job.  I have since sprayed the case with a couple of coatts of automotive clearcoat
Next will be the addition of a little bit 'o' bling (some stick on Gemstones)

If anyone is interested then I'll post up more pics when its complete.

On a side note does anyone know of any company that does a 2Ch 2.4Ghz traditional twin stick TX?

[Neil]

the femine side of us comes out in the strangest of places

[essex2visuvesi]

LOL yep... was one of those "Hmmmm I wonder if..." moments

[Netleyned]

Acoms do a 2 Chann Twin Stick.

Ned

[essex2visuvesi]

Acoms do a 2 Chann Twin Stick.

Ned

Yes I had seen that one, but having had Acoms 2.4 (Acoms Hyabussa) in the past 2 things put me off

1 the price of the Receivers (and there are no compatible clones)
2 The Acoms 2.4G system is not very good.  There are a lot of stories of binding issues and a high failure rate of receivers (which I can back up with my own experience)

I have to say having used acoms stuff in the past (through the 80s and 90's) I was quite suprised about the issues I had with the 2.4

[w3bby]

On a side note does anyone know of any company that does a 2Ch 2.4Ghz traditional twin stick TX?

With the price of the 4 (and more) channel offerings such as this I wouldn't bother looking for just 2. You don't have to use all the channels

[Martin (Admin)]

Interesting!

 Can you expand on cleaning the surfaces and what you used to prep them for painting please?

 Martin

[essex2visuvesi]

Interesting!

 Can you expand on cleaning the surfaces and what you used to prep them for painting please?

 Martin

after stripping the unit down I rubbed down the areas with chips and scratches with old 1000 grit wet and dry used wet.
Next I cleaned it down in soapy water...  Use the cheap stuff, not the ones endorsed by Nanette Newman et all, rinsed thoroughly in clear water. 
A quick rinse in a water/vinegar solution followed by another rinse in clear water.
Pat Dry with a lint free cloth and then leave to dry thoroughly for a few hours at least.
Mask with your chosen tape.
On to the painting.  The paint I used was tamiya polycarbonate spray, I test sprayed the inside of the battery cover to see how well it stck and it stck very well.

[essex2visuvesi]

Just a quick update.... test sprayed another Futaba TX last night (Son wants his in red) and the polycarbonate paint would not stick.

SO

please check before spraying

[Martin (Admin)]

 
"A quick rinse in a water/vinegar solution" - is that a sort of etch primer?

[grasshopper]

You can get reasonably priced stick radios on 2.4GHz from the likes of Tamco, Code and Etronix.

[Martin (Admin)]

... yeah but not in Girlie Pink! 

[bikerdude999]

... yeah but not in Girlie Pink! 

Are you planning on painting one to match your err, uhh.... 'colourful' shirts then Martin?

[essex2visuvesi]

"A quick rinse in a water/vinegar solution" - is that a sort of etch primer?

No not really, it just helps to remove any residual soap and oils.... well this is what I was told and it seems to work