Old Tamiya MANTA RAY - Bringing it back to life Part 2

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began as a simple Mantaray, now this is the place. launch kit, but it's practically identical, so I've done some, if you can call it modifications, I mean, it was like 10 years old, so if you look at some of the modifications, there are Meccano

part

s in there, there are all kinds.

There, if you look at the driveshaft, it was so poor that I couldn't even afford spare

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s. I used to have to try to fix it and make do with what I had, so these bodies are still available today and If you look on eBay, Cobham, what are they called, but I think they're still there, so this one is the second part of the original video. I did a little rebuild video on this car about a year ago and now the new guys keep saying. keV when you're going to bring it to life, so in this video I'm going to try to make this come to life again.

Now in the last video people said you worry about a lot of other pots that have cracks you have to fix everything but I want to keep it as original as possible this will be like my nostalgia car and to keep as many original parts as possible There like I had it when I was a kid, so yeah, not a lot of broken pieces. The parts are worn out but if I were to replace them all then there really wouldn't be anything left of the original car and it would probably be more like this and I already have a new one.

My main goal really is just to make it work if I can make this thing work with as many original parts as possible. I mean let's look at this jean, hey we got a wood screw oh my gosh I don't know what's going on. Here guys, look at this, this is all loose. I think these shock towers were turned off like a superior force or something. I mean, this thing has definitely seen better days. There are missing pieces here. I mean, things really had it, but I mean, it's nostalgia. me and it would be nice to re-type so I still have the original mechanical speed controller hanging around somewhere at home but I can't find it and I also have the original a comms techne plus that this car came with.

In the past I bought this car for the modders excitement and this used to be my favorite shop when I was a little kid, for now what I'm going to do is put an electronic speed controller on it and I'm going to use this spectrum radio here. Ian from Claire's Australian channel kindly donated the spots needed to get the drive working again, so in this video I'm going to put in a bit of effort and see if I can get it. drive a car and then there will be a third part of this video when I can find with a mechanical speaker test a US audio regional technical radio.

The large area was a car, not a stick radio, but for now less procrastination , less talk and more heartbreak. Oh, subscribe and if you like these videos, give us a thumbs up or a thumbs down if you suck because every little bit helps so this is the original screwdriver that I first built this car with all those years ago. Remember I took it out of my dad's toolbox and I'll still have it, so I guess for nostalgia's sake I'll go all out with this today, oh my gosh, look at these driveshafts guys, completely worn out. I have another one here, maybe this one is in better condition, cut the tape off.

Over here to make up for the missing plastic part, but this is how I used it when I was a kid and this is how I will do it now. Oh, the system is

back

up and running, so now it's putting in some electronics, so I'm. I'm going to mount the speed controller up here. I'm not going to tighten it too much because it will come

back

out. It's only temporary. I'm going to solder them onto the motor receiver. You can enter here like this. So we have direction tunnel one. and throttle channel two haha, it's live, it's live, but notice how slow we do it, this is the original communication servo there, so next and now I have to solder the motor cables, notice, This is a triple team fifteen with kinship walls. engine in one day this thing was ballistically fast oh here we go this is the moment of truth it's going to work oh it's one way Oh guys I just broke it off the cams they picked it up and these two rear screws also broke straight off so I asked them to replace them, oh I'm removing this cover here and I've remembered now, look, I have the RW racing gears here because in stock they used aluminum gears from the companies, but these used to make such There was a mess there and It used to turn all the fat there until it turned black.

Oh, I screwed it back on. I actually found a couple of the original screws and they fit perfectly, I'm not sure why the way I had them they had these brass screws here. and I had them going this way and then I had a nut holding it on the other side and I guess the reason I did it is because I didn't have spare screws, you know, my pores completely broke, this thing that It took me like a couple of years to save up so I fooled myself, it has to come to keep it going, we're a bit sad hanging around but anyway it should now be ready for some action.

Oh, and by the way, this is the spur gear I used to use. run because on the original standard Tamiya spur gear when you took it apart you had to buy the entire gear set but once you did the RW conversion we were able to do all you had to do was buy the actual RW ring gears and obviously the car came. with a wing like this, but I remember that back then I couldn't have replaced it with an ABS plastic one and I can't find it. I thought no, where the hell is it, it's probably at home in the rest box. of my stingray stuff, but I have this Tommy Hawk rear spoiler and although it's not exactly the same, it's better not to have anything there haha, check it out guys, imagine when I was ten years old how epic this would have been today in day. of them prefer Xbox, sad world and the best thing about the Aussie pastime is that it gets you away from your friends, it makes you have fun and learn about tolls, it makes you heartbreaking, but anyway, enough blathering, let's plug it in and hit it. a wonder Oh guys, this is

bringing

back some memories oh oh, the steering is very clever but guys, that gearbox is alive.

Oh hey guys, I think we'll save it for this video, we'll have to take a little look at the stream. is clicking. I thought he was farming, but I think I'll take a look at him before we cause more damage. I know some of you, I said before that you wanted to sneak past the jump, but no, this is a bit. of vintage nostalgia for me and it definitely won't be destroyed. I want to get it running again and then leave it sitting on me to be happy forever and here it is with an original body and this brings back some memories because back.

On the day I started using it, I ran it with this shell, not exactly this shell, one that I tweaked for this one, but I ran it with a shell like this and I remember when I bought these wheels. Here I can I didn't run it with this body first so this actually brings back a lot of memories and now here you can see the inside of the re-released stingray so when putting this together I didn't notice much of a difference it was pretty close. compared to the original and the only thing that really stands out is that this one comes with an electronic speed controller, on this one it had a servo here and while the mechanical wiper style speed controllers you had to press the resistance up here and that's where they used to peek out over here and I remember this sign here, caution, do not touch, touch, the only other difference that I can notice in this kit is that in this one it has this little bump here on the driveshaft and these cups here are silver. on the originals there is no small mark on the driveshaft and the cups are black, so as far as modifications go, as far as I can remember it goes back a few years, obviously I changed the wheels or scuffed them from the company that manufactured them. completely forgotten wheels, I think they are probably Schumacher tires and maybe fast track swimmers, I don't know, I can't really remember and I have carbon fiber shock towers that come out of maximum force because these are plastic These used to break all over time if you hit them under a car or something, or jumped on them and rolled them, they broke quite often and then I made this homemade adjustable top of the wishbones here so I could adjust the tilt because when you look at the original, it doesn't they can have solid links and then I replaced this type of four wheel drive center drive shaft.

It's very thin and used to bend very easily, then it starts to flap and make a noise, so I upgraded it here with a heavy duty one. I changed the springs and I'm pretty sure these offered some kind of Schumacher car, the tower of superior force shock in the rear here too, the walled Brian King edition of 15 by 3. or 15 triple motors, obviously, the body and the wing and the part from there. I think the rest of this thing is quite original more or less mmm my little budget updates whatever you want to call them so I can't in this video what I wanted to achieve it and it brought back a lot of memories from the screwdriver to this thing even moving it takes me back to the member of the dial when I have this thing, I was sitting in my room on the carpet, the green carpet, I will remember.

Now I am putting this together with this same screwdriver and I think today I have achieved what I wanted to achieve and just get this thing working again, like this Next I want to solve the problem by grinding the gearbox. I'm really not sure what's causing it, it'll probably need another spur gear, maybe another motor mount, and we'll try to fix it and then once I found the mechanical speed controller and that resistive thing on top, I want to turn it back into that but I say that although when I made Gracie I had an electronic speed controller in there and it burned up so I'm going to throw it in the trash so maybe I'll leave it with this ESC here but I think I need to dig it out that. coms techne plus put the receiver back in there and just brought it back to how it was when I used to run this back in the day and you know what guys, no materialistic thing has ever excited me as much as this and you know.

I remember the day I first got this, I was so overwhelmed with emotion I couldn't believe it was true. I mean, this was my absolute, absolute dream and it was more fun for me to get this than it is now. but I hope that once I get this free thing here up and running and I get some of those feelings back, it'll be here on my shelf, so that when it's here in my store I can see it sitting there and just kind of remind myself: you know where this whole great hobby started for me, so I have no idea when the next videos with this one will come out;

There will be another video, I have no idea when, but for now check out one of these other videos and I'll see you there in a second.