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You skated in sand or water recently? Or your bearings are making noise? You need to clean them! 💯Here’s how to do it in 5 easy steps..What

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How To: Change Connectors on Your Battery and ESC

One of the ways manufacturers help keep costs down is to supply their batteries and ESCs with inexpensive connectors. On the plus side, these connectors can cost fractions of what the good, high end connectors cost, allowing them to pass that savings down to you. Because these connectors are so inexpensive, it also makes them massively abundant when it comes time to buy additional batteries or upgrade to a new ESC. In addition, most chargers come with at least one type of these connectors.

These connectors can have a pretty substantial downside, however. When powering your RC car or truck, the juice from a battery flowing through the wires to the ESC can generate heat. This heat can cause two problems: 1) The heat is basically wasted power and can be a reason your vehicle seems slow. 2) This heat can melt the connectors, fusing them together and potentially causing a serious situation (ie, fire!).

Changing to a good, quality set of connectors is a cheap way to both reduce heat (providing more power) and help prevent a meltdown that could destroy more than just your vehicle.

In this How To, we explain how to change the connectors on your ESC. The same steps apply when changing the connector on your battery, however you’ll want to take these additional precautions:

1) When removing the connector from your battery, DO NOT cut both wires a the same time. Doing so could create a bridge that WILL create a pretty spectacular spark. Cut one wire, bend it out of the way and cut the second wire.

2) Make sure you attach the wires to match the connnector on the ESC. If you attach them backwards and plug it into the ESC, you’ll be in for a big, smokey surprise when you turn your vehicle on.

For a explanation on the most common connectors in RC, check out this page: Battery Connectors and Balance Plugs Explained

That’s about it, let’s get on with the How To.

1. Tools Required

To change the connectors, you’ll need your ESC (or battery) with the not-so-great connector. You’ll also need a new set of connectors, shrinkwrap (color-coded is suggested), a soldering iron, solder and something to clip the wires with (scissors, side-cutters, hobby knife, etc).

2. A Set of Helping Hands

I would suggest, if you think you might be soldering quite a bit, to pick up one of these Pro’sKit Helping Hands Soldering Aid. This thing works great for holding wires and connectors while soldering.

3. Snip the Tip

The connector pictured is extremely common and referred to as a Tamiya connector, one of the most widely used connectors in RC. Snip that connector off and toss it in the trash. Take your scissors (or hobby knife, or whatever) and trim a small amount of the shielding off of both wires as shown. If you are working on a battery, trim the shielding off of one wire and fold it out of the way before working on the second wire. DO NOT LET THE EXPOSED WIRES TOUCH! If you’re still concerned, wrap a piece of tape over the wire and proceed to the second wire.

4. Prep Your Wires

Tin both wires with a little bit of rosin-core solder as shown. Make sure to coat the wires completely.

5. Check the Connector

All high-end connectors have the positive and negative terminals designated on the connector itself. You want to inspect the connector carefully to make sure you’re solding to the correct terminals. This Deans-style connector has the + and – near the tabs themselves; I’ve highlighted them in black so you can see them better.

6. Tin the Tabs

Apply a small amount of solder to the tabs on the connector.

7. Final Soldering

Slide a piece of shrink tubing onto each wire (I use Reedy’s pre-cut #650 Shrink Tubing). Carefully solder each wire to the new connector, again making sure you attach the red wire (or positive wire) to the + terminal (positive terminal) and the black wire (negative wire) to the – terminal (negative terminal). You can see so far how handy the Pro’sKit Helping Hands Soldering Aid is!

8. Seal the Solder

Slide the tubing down and over the connector terminal and use a heat source to shrink it to size. You can use your soldering iron, lighter or even a hair dryer. Just be careful not to burn yourself.

So there you have it, eight easy steps to change your connectors out. Your electronic system will waste less energy, your car will have more power and your connectors will make you look like a Pro. Great job!

How To: Change Connectors on Your Battery and ESC was originally published on CompetitionX

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How To: Clean Your Bearings

I’m like most of you; I love getting my ride out in the dirt or mud and having some fun! I always say, though, that even though you spend the day getting your car dirty or muddy, you had BETTER spend the day cleaning your car as well!

Clean cars are happy cars; that is my mantra when it comes to my rides. That brings me to one of the most neglected parts of any RC car – the bearings.

Almost the entire bearing is made of metal, which means if you get it wet, it will rust. Since it’s also has moving parts, if you get it dirty, it will just continually grind the dirt into the metal until it finally fails … and then you have to replace it anyway.

A little maintenance now will save you a headache later as well as a few bucks.

CompetitionX has put together a quick and easy method for cleaning your bearings. It requires a can of electric motor spray (I like Performance Plus 4 from T.A. Emerald), RPM’s Bearing Blaster and, of course, your dirty bearings.

1. Get Ready to Blast

First gather up your dirty bearings. You can do them all at once or only a certain few at a time. RPM’s Bearing Blaster will accept most wheel bearings, diff bearings, steering bearings and transmission bearings. If you need a Blaster that will handle larger bearings, check out RPM’s Mega Bearing Blaster.

2. Prep Your Parts

Since you’re about to spray the dirt out of your bearings, I suggest taking a paper towel and folding it over a few times to act as the liquid catcher. This will keep mom (or wife, or girlfriend) from slapping you upside the head when you get dirty spray all over her table.

3. Blast Away

Set your bearing into the lower Blaster half and dtop the other Blaster half on top. Using the tube that came with your RC motor spray, insert it into the hole and blast away. Use short bursts to help loosen the dirt. You may have to do this a few times on each side depending on how dirty the bearings are.

4. Admire Your Work

Pull the bearing out and check its condition. As you can see from this picture, there was only a little dirt in this particular bearing. I’ve had some that look like they’ve been sitting in mud for years.

5. Just Add Oil

Once you’re satisfied with the condition of your bearing, add a single drop of LIGHT bearing oil. This one drop will lube the bearing as well as help protect it from further contamination.

Now re-install your bearings and watch how much faster you car goes! Just don’t tell your friends your speed secret!

How To: Clean Your Bearings was originally published on CompetitionX

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How to clean your super gross bearings

How to clean your super gross bearings

As we discussed last time, I needed to clean by bearings. In fact, my skates need a total makeover, but we’ll start with clean bearings and go from there. EW GROSS LOOKIT.

Yuck yuck yuck if dust is really human skin JUST THINK ABOUT THAT.

If you’ve never cleaned your bearings, come along with me. I will assist you in doing an okay job at cleaning Bones Reds and similar bearings. (If you have…

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