I will try to spend some time this weekend on assembly, how is everyone going with theirs? Post up some pics, I want to see some Slipperential action....
Australia is looking to possibly change our tax scheme when importing goods. At the moment we pay no tax if the value is less than $1000, but this has hurt our local retailers as online shopping has boomed over the past decade...
The trouble for our Hobby Stores in particular is that consumers can pay retail+shipping from overseas, and pay less than what our hobby shops are paying at wholesale from the product distributors. How is that even possible?
I was looking for an ESC for a crawler about 12 months ago. I am not a rich man, but look to support local when I can. ESC would cost me about $60 USD ($80 AUD) including shipping to my door. I chatted to a LHS, and the cost to purchase in Australia would have been a little over $200 AUD. The poor LHS told me that at wholesale they would be paying more for the ESC than what I could order it as Retail from the states...
The spacing for the support leg was a little off on my G1 - I initially thought I messed something up when I made them, but it fits the G2 perfectly. I think you may need to space the support leg a little for a perfect fit(washer between the support leg and mount).