Good old family fun.
 

Well the boys and I spent some time in the R/C shop this weekend, and both of them have completed their stock EMaxx builds. It was a bit overwhelming for them at first never having done anything like that, but once they got started putting them together they could not get enough:yes:. Finally on Sunday Jeremy 13 finished his and was ready for some in shop testing:neutral:. After a few adjustments and some tweeking he was ready to go out on Monday:yipi:. This pushed Tommy 12 to get his finished up Monday morning (sibbling rivalry/compitition) so they could go out together.

I have like ten sets of NM battery packs so they were having none stop fun bashing together:party:. My wife took some video and I will post that up later today once I get it loaded up on photobucket. I have only allowed them to use 6 cell packs so far. I want them to learn a bit first before stepping up to the 7 cell packs. Now they are stoked for upgrades and some serious learning about brushless power:eyes:. 2009 is going to be a very busy year at The HIll House I can see it now. Plus now my wife and our 10 year old daughter want to build their own trucks as well, so they can get in on the fun. We will probably build something like the old "PinkVo" (Revo) that was done in here last year for our daughter:mdr:.

I will get some photos and video up shortly. Thanks to all of the guys who donated old EMaxx parts for their projects, as it was a great success for us. We still have enough parts to just about complete another Maxx stocker, so I will be placing an order to get whatever is missing next week. You guys are great for lending a hand. I am truly grateful for your support Gee/Pedeboi/Markus. and you to Harold. Thank you for a wonderful weekend due to your generosity.

SINCERELY THE HILL FAMILY IN SEOUL, KOREA.

JERRY,that sounds great!...i have two boys(9and 5)...i let my 5 year old try out my new BL rc8t...he loved it and did a surprisingly good job driving...now my boys are fighting over a dx3r radio like it is just a normal toy...GOOD TIMES!

we have a great time with the electric trucks!...my 9 year old has a nitro Tmaxx collecting major dust now...it too much of a pain keeping the nitro tuned and running propperly...they are spoiled with the killer BL trucks I(we) have...we just sit in the yard and run for hours...they just run and run and run...NITRO SUCKS!!

Let me know when you get the package and what you think?

It's pretty cool that your whole family wants in on the R/C addiction! :lol: Just remember to pay the mortgage and buy food first...

Sound like fun with true riches.

I hope the parts got there in time.

Update
 

Not arrived yet...

Check out the photos and videos.
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Jerry, glad you found the shop. I was given the general directions of the shop at yongson so I might try to find it this weekend. Im just worried Im gonna get lost and cant find my way back...lol.

Confused.
 

Actually I have not found that shop just yet. What a meant was that we worked in our personal R/C workshop here at the Hill House. After you shared with me about the pricing I have not bothered looking out in the Seoul Community. I have been doing 90% of my shopping on line since I started into this 3 years ago anyway, so why change now? We have built up a pretty good stock of the usual things like bearings, screws, and basic Maxx stuff so we are good. Plus we had the help of a few guys in here who generously donated some of their old stock Maxx parts to help us along. I am sure that we will have more photos and video in the comming weeks to share. The boys were out again this evening, but I took the wife to see a movie "The day the Earth stood still". Pretty good movie by the way.

Oh ok. Supposedly the shop is not that far from the train station and its pretty good. A couple of guys hear take that trip to buy parts instead of coming here. I gotta get some minutes for my phone so you could call me or vice versa.

Love the vid Jerry. He knew exactly what to fix, because he put it togther. Nice!

Thanks
 

Thank you Harold. This week has been a lot of fun for all of us. The boys are totally stoked ad learning more and more each day. They were out again today and ran two sets of batteries each so they are getting good. I will have to break down and get them some new battery packs, as my old stuff is begining to leak and just fall apart. They are like 3 years old now. I am not ready to turn them loose with Lipo's just yet. Too much money for pre-teens.

Jerry, That is priceless time w/your family. I am introducing this hobby to my little girl...10. She loves it when we go out together and run. I was having trouble keeping 2 reliable cars going...so I bought 2 crt.5 and since then, no probs. I am slowly teaching her about how the truck ticks. The first time she plugged a li-po in and she saw the spark, she jumped. Once I told her that happens every time, she was good to go!

It is nice to see our children enjoying our obsession w/us and spending time together is just priceless.

Very nice Jerry. Sorry the parts did not make it in time, but they will be good for breakage.

I like the "pin board" as opposed to a "peg board". Keep us posted.

That looks like a lot of quality fun! I wish I had a brother and a dad interested in R/C when I started. All I had was my cousin (Cultech for anyone wondering) but he lived an hour away.

Anyway, what exactly happened with you kid's steering? Bellcrank come loose?

I wish I had anyone near me interested...

I still do.. ^_^

Just got one other friend into the plankers, and might get another guy into truggies :D

So much for being an enabler!

Two sides.
 

There is two sides to this(good & bad). I have waited for this day for a long time and I am really excited for the whole experience of R/C with my family. I know my boys will benefit in many ways like learning the mechanical & electrical aspects of our hobby, as well as the joys of doing R/C in general. The down side is that they are already expressing excitement of upgrading, and improving in ways that will cost a lot of money. It has been hard enough just to keep my own R/C spending under control. I have literally spent $3K to $5K a year getting my hobby up and running to the level that I am happy with, and actually I could always spend more. Now I have even more to consider with both of our boys involved, and then my wife and daughter want to become a part of things. And of course kids are not patient about anything. They do not understand how much money is involved or how long it takes to acquire the money and finally put hands on the parts that are required/wanted for such improvements. Thank God I am going to be starting back to work soon, because we will need the money. I can only imagine how much this may get into money wise. All in all I know it will all work out for the good. Life is good.

What I highlighted and underlined....Enough said!

man, i wish my dad was intorc... makes me wana trade my crap t-maxx for an E...

I would.
 

I have never run nitro, but growing up I always wanted to. Now that I have my foot in the door on electric R/C I doubt that I will ever run nitro. BL is just so much easier and I already have the all electric stuff now anyway. So I guess I will just have to stick with it now. I will say from everything shared in here that nitro is just not worth the trouble considering how easy it is to plug and play with BL and battery power. Good luck with your struggles.

This is such a cool thread! Thanks for posting it! I am so looking forward to when my son can start running with me! Well, that is the double-edge sword isn't it? You don't want them to grow up too fast, but yet they make such a good buddy to play with! None of my friends are into RC, so I play by myself at this point. My son will be 4 in June, and I will be looking to get him something to start with soon, other than the toy RC junk he has had.

Again, great thread! Thanks for posting, from one Dad to another! :yipi:

Happy times.
 

HAPPY TIMES FOR SURE. Hey thanks for checking our thread out. I am excited with everything that has happened up to now. It was a terrible loss for my kid to loose their mom, but I have wanted custody of my kids from the start, and I am finally getting to live my dreams. It really is a great thing to share R/C with each of them. Now they are hounding me to complete my projects so we can get out and bash/race together. My own cheerleading squad I guess. I wish every father this kind of success with their family. It really is great to have them all involved in what I love to do.

My son was so impatient before but learned the virtue mainly by understanding what it takes to learn how to drive, wait for replacement parts from the mail, replace and fix parts that was broken. I always tell him the joy of driving his truck has its own flipside of being angry after parts get broken.

Either way, your boys will learn to appreciate what they have and what you're doing for them. Not a lot of fathers spend quality time with their kids for whatever reason they might have. I know I learned the meaning of quality time after being out at sea for much of my Navy career.

Good job introducing them to the world of rc :party::party::party:.

Thanks.
 

Thanks Lito. It really is rewarding to see how much they love jsut being a part of the R/C experience, and now they are craving more attention from me along that line. I am enjoying it, but I have so much more work to do. You are right about the learning of patients though. They are begining to realize just what is involved in taking care of these beasts and keeping them running properly. Lots of lessons to learn.

Sorry to hear about the massive amounts of sea time:rofl:. I did less than 45 days at sea in over 20 years in the Navy:yes:. Just lucky I guess:lol::yipi:.

You just love rubbing that on me don't you :lol::rofl::whip:?

10 1/2 years at sea out of 17 1/2 years sucks but oh well :neutral::neutral::neutral:.