Épisodes

  • HOW-TO: Fix White Stress Lines in Your R/C Model Chassis
    Jul 15 2025

    Your gently drive a screw in your radio controlled vehicle's chassis or gearbox and those white lines appear. You now have those horrible stress marks and you know it's not good. How did it happen and how do you fix it? We take a deep dive into these internal breakages in this episode of the RC Deep Dive podcast.

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    7 min
  • HOW-TO: Fix Lexan (Polycarbonate) Body Shell Cutting Mistakes
    Jul 14 2025

    You are carefully cutting out your polycarbonate body so that you can paint it with your choice of PS paints. But then your hobby knife slips and you cut a line or make a hole in the shell, tearing a place where there shouldn't be one. What do you do? How do you fix it? We take a deep dive into the multiple ways to fix your Lexan R/C vehicle body in this episode of the RC Deep Dive podcast.

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    7 min
  • Should You Grease Your Gearbox Where it Connects to Your Chassis?
    Jul 13 2025

    Vintage, classic, and rere (re-release) radio controlled buggies like the Grasshopper, Hornet, Grasshopper II, Super Hornet, Rising Fighter, etc. have a pivot point at the back of the bottom of the chassis that seems to be a friction magnet that could be improved with grease. But if this theory is correct, which R/C Grease should be used? AW (Anti-Wear), Cera Grease HG (High Grade), or something else? We take a deep dive into this pivot point and greases usage in this episode of the RC Deep Dive podcast.

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    6 min
  • R/C Rally Car Legends: Audi Quattro vs. Lancia 037
    Jul 12 2025

    In 1983 Tamiya made the 2 most iconic class B rally cars into 1/10th scale R/C models. However, when they re-released these radio controlled vehicles in the modern era they used different chassis and modified other parts, including the body shells, changing them from off-road vehicles to on-road RC race cars. Why did Tamiya do this and are the vintage or more modern recreations better? We take a "rally" deep look into these RCRC (radio control rally car) legends in this episode of the RC Deep Dive podcast.

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    6 min
  • R/C Jargon: Racing, Bashing, Crawling, Drifting, Speed Running, and More!
    Jul 11 2025

    The R/C hobby isn't just collecting, building, and racing. There's also bashing, crawling, drifting, and speed running, each activity having a number of sub-genres within that radio controlled vehicles usage. We take a deep dive into our virtual hunting dictionary to help new RC model hobbyists understand the radio control hobby jargon and specific sub-communities in this episode of the RC Deep Dive podcast.

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    8 min
  • What are Parma Double Wheel Adapters and How Do They Work?
    Jul 10 2025

    In the 1980s, Parma created one of the more unusual hop-ups that allows you to put double wheels on both the front and rear axles of your Tamiya Frog, Grasshopper, Hornet, and Blackfoot radio-controlled model vehicles. We take a deep dive into exactly how this hop-up option works and both the advantages and disadvantages of the mod in this episode of the RC Deep Dive podcast.

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    6 min
  • Do Softer Shock Springs Require Harder Damper Oil?
    Jul 9 2025

    There's a lot of confusion about how radio control model vehicle shock springs and damper oil work together and exactly what each one does. In this episode of the RC Deep Dive we dive deep into what damper oil changes are necessary when your CVA (Constant Volume Adjustable) oil-filled shock gets softer shock springs on the Tamiya Frog R/C buggy's ORV chassis or any other radio controlled vehicle.

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    5 min
  • The Importance of Supporting Your Local RC Hobby Shops and Race Tracks
    Jul 8 2025

    Why is it so important to support your local R/C model hobby shop and RC car race track, if you are lucky enough to have one (or more). We take a really deep dive why supporting your local experts is not only helping them, but actually helps you and everyone in your local radio controlled vehicle hobbyist community in more ways than you know in this episode of the RC Deep Dive podcast.

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    7 min