All About Tamiya Racing Factory VG Bearing Oils and Greases
What is TRF (Tamiya Racing Factory) VG (Viscosity Grade) bearing oil? How does it compare to other TRF and other brand bearing oils? And what is the difference between bearing oils and thrust bearing ...
2 Kesä 6min
Tamiya's Dirt Four-Wheel Drive R/C Model Vehicles: The DF-01, DF-02, and DF-03
What makes Tamiya's dirt four-wheel drive series so special in the hearts and minds of many R/C model vehicle enthusiast? What are the difference between the different generations of the DF-01, DF-02,...
1 Kesä 6min
Tamiya's Dirt Two-Wheel Drive Series: The DT-01, DT-02, DT-03, and DT-04
What makes Tamiya's dirt two-wheel drive series so special in the hearts and minds of many R/C model vehicle enthusiast? What are the difference between the different generations of the DT-01, DT-02, ...
31 Touko 6min
What Hollywood, Mass Media, and Commercial Ads get Wrong About the R/C Hobby
Just like skateboarders and TTRPG (Tabletop Role-Playing Game) players, the media gets the R/C model vehicle hobbyist community wrong on so many levels. Why does this persist? In this episode of the R...
30 Touko 5min
HOW-TO: Install a Gyro into Your R/C Model Vehicle
If you have every considered installing a gyro in your R/C model vehicle you might have wondered how difficult it is. It's relatively straightforward, however you do need to have specific types of ser...
29 Touko 6min
Why Some R/C Model Vehicle Hobbyists Hate Gyros and AI
While in general, the R/C model vehicle enthusiast community has accepted new technologies like ball diffs. ESCs, 2.4GHZ radio equipment, NiMh, LiFe, or LiPo batteries, etc. there still seems to be a ...
28 Touko 4min
Trust But Verify: The Advantages and Disadvantages of R/C Forums vs. Podcasts
The R/C Forums are in many ways a lifeline of the radio-controlled model vehicle hobbyist community. However, with so the information they have and the good that they do, there are major disadvantages...
27 Touko 5min
The 1980's R/C Racer Uniforms of the Golden Era of Radio-Control
In the iconic 1980's Punky Brewster episode, "Girls Will be Boys", the backyard R/C racer boys, as well as Punky Brewster herself, wore racecar driver racing jumpsuits when racing their vintage Tamiya...
26 Touko 5min
