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 Posted - January 23 2015 : 11:18:40 PM
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Has anyone heard of the Hollywood Foundry? It's a company in Australia that makes power trucks and other chassis and drive systems. They look of good quality. Mashima motors and so on. I wanna buy the hustler conversion kit. Impressive unit with a flywheel drive and all and a more reasonable gear ratio.
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Posted - January 24 2015 : 09:19:54 AM
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http://www.hollywoodfoundry.com/
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Posted - January 24 2015 : 09:31:17 AM
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I'd love to have a shopping spree there. Lots of interesting power options.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - January 24 2015 : 10:00:24 AM
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Yes, I was looking at their RDC re-power kits because my Earnst gear kit pretty much sucks. Looks like some great stuff.
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Posted - January 24 2015 : 11:30:06 AM
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I haven't tried one myself, but I've only heard great things about their drive units. If you want to try one, I say give it a go!
The Ernst RDC kit takes some tuning, but you can end up with a really smooth runner. I put one in an Athearn RDC a while back, and it works great!
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Posted - January 24 2015 : 2:11:38 PM
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| I was thinking of remotoring my athearn hustler for quite some time. I would be interested in knowing if anyone has used this company and what the results were.
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Posted - January 24 2015 : 5:04:41 PM
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quote:
The Ernst RDC kit takes some tuning, but you can end up with a really smooth runner. I put one in an Athearn RDC a while back, and it works great!
Originally posted by Darth Santa Fe - January 24 2015 : 11:30:06 AM
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Good job ... after what I went through with mine, I was convinced there was no hope ... I don't have that much patients, so I ripped out the Earnst kit and turned it into a dummy.
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Posted - January 24 2015 : 5:10:47 PM
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quote:I was thinking of remotoring my athearn hustler for quite some time. I would be interested in knowing if anyone has used this company and what the results were.
Originally posted by thetramp - January 24 2015 : 2:11:38 PM
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I don't know of anyone who has one, but I found this:
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