One of the most satisfying things you can do when building your radio controlled tractors or construction vehicles is to add LED lights. You can very quick see the fruits of your labor even before you’ve sorted out the control you can just temporarily wire them up and get a […] Beginners guide to LEDsMay 8, 2013 in Electronics Talk tagged Components / LED / RC Conversion / RC Digger / RC Excavator / RC Lorry / RC Tractor / RC Truck / RC Wheel Loader by RC Tractor Guy
Here is a great video about how one guy built his own 1:32 scale radio controlled excavator. I think it might be a plastic model which would make things a lot easier, the biggest problem with my Hitachi zaxis 210 is the weight of the excavator arm. He clearly shows […] A great example of a homemade RC excavatorMay 6, 2013 in 1:32 Scale Models tagged Example / RC Excavator / Video by RC Tractor Guy
Here is a great example of how to convert a standard 180 degree servo into a continuous rotation servo. You might want to do this to make screw drives for a radio controlled excavator model or to drive the wheels of an RC tractor model. A servo consists of a […] How to modify a servo for continuous rotationMay 3, 2013 in Electronics Talk tagged Components / RC Excavator / RC Tractor / Servo / Video by RC Tractor Guy
Okay so I taught I’d just address the question most of you are asking which is “Why don’t I just buy an RC excavator?”. Well there are a few issues with the plan. 1. Small Scale RC Excavators are well…….rubbish! The below video is an example of the quality of […] Why you don’t want to buy an RC excavatorApril 26, 2013 in General Discussions tagged Bruder / RC Conversion / RC Excavator / Real Hydraulics by RC Tractor Guy