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Team DieSexy saadly can't make this as I'm a Rugby Ref and I have a match to officiate that day.

Best of luck to eveyone!

Basingstoke will be nice, hopefully won't lock my keys in my car again...

EpicentrE wrote:What are those ESCs, if you don't mind me asking?

These are the ones, I have others ordered which I hope will be smaller and will report on this thread when they arrive

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191904374955? ... EBIDX%3AIT

For some perverse reason it amuses me that you have a power switch as well as each ESC having its own little power switch. My robots go the other way and have no switches at all...I like systems like this though, I think as good as Rory's kits are (and I'm going to be getting more soon!), it's not ...

Okay, I've now got duel ESC's working with a programmable break, but because I haven't got a mixer I'm have to use the right and left sticks. Here's a a few photos of what I've done. Now in no way am I recommending this route. With the kit Rory has you can do this so much better, lighter and smaller...

Hogi wrote:I too would quite like to know the answer to the ti cutting question. I thought it was one of those things that required specialist equipment but I would be interested to know if there was a cheaper tool that would be up to the job.

Tin snips can cut through 1mm titanium without any difficulty

Shakey wrote:That is indeed the 'brake' on the ESC.

Thanks. I love trial and error. Off to buy some new ESC without brakes!!!

Once I'm done doing all this, I will write am idiots guide - should be easy given I'm a ...

Hi Everyone Despite having one of Rory's brilliant t kits I'm also trying to figure things out for myself and have hit a snag. I have a brushed micro motor and brushed ESC with a brake through a Lemon RX I've bound to a Blade Heli Controller Spektrum MLP4DSM DSMX. My problem is that if I want to rev...

Lovely bot, you've obviously really thought out the chassis...

Looking very good!