Found Steering Problem You Should All Look At This!!!
 

As you guys have probably noticed now I've had steering problems with my r/c. The two most common things you said were "take it apart" or "all of them can't steer right". So at a closer examination of my R/c revealed something. I flipped over my r/c and looked at it with a big magnifying glass and to my surprise found MICROSCOPIC metal pieces smaller than a flea. And I noticed they sat on one side of the front pulling the steering magnet towards them therfore making my car drive only to the left. After several minutes trying to remove them with some tweezers I found my car could properly turn as if it had just came out of the box. I hope this helps those of you who are having a similar problem!

it's amazin how much little magnetic stuff is realy on the ground!..and we would have never known this if we never bought BITS..is there a mill around where u live?..

I KNOW AMAZING ISN'T IT! There are a few mills about 10 mi. from my house and my dad works at one of them but its a paper mill

ive posted this a million times.

glue a magnet to the tip of your antenna. you will always have something to suck the metal off(much better than spending all day using tweezers).


no it does not effect range at all in any way

Or couldn't I just glue a tiny magnet to a pair of tweezers?

you could glue a magnet to anything but you always have a controller in your hand when running your bits so why not put the magnet there so you dont have to carry tweezers around?

You could also put a small piece of tape over the bottom of the car, and take it off when there is lots on there.

That might work. But imagine for those of you with rare earth magnets that must be a B!TCH trying to get off those little shavings

no. you just put the magnetic tipped antenna about 1/4in away from the car and all the stuff just jumps right off. rare earth, ceramic whatever it jumps right off the car.

why would i post a solution over and over if it was bs?

I never said it was.

speaking of rare earth magnets where do u get them???

I always wondered.... How does that magnet on the antenna thing work anyway?

UUUmmm. Online store or radioshack

You can get them at www.questformadness.com.

i was playin with my Gloria earlier and the steerin was backward!..right was left ect....this is the first time this has ever happend 2 me..i had just replaced the steerin spring..what happend ?:mad:

your steering magnet is flipped over. are you sure you put the same one back in? i did that once. to many open chassis at once.:rolleyes:

my stock magnets from my skyline set have more power than the rare earth magnets... the stock ones turn better... i took them out and did a paper test and the stock magnet held 2 more sheets of paper...

One time when I was fiing my car, I accidentally put a steering wire on the forward contact, and whenever I went forward, it turned left or right... I forget...

Hee hee hee that mus suck. Oh well it happens

...this is exactly what happend the wires were touchen the neg.contact on the pcb..i thought i broke it..:rolleyes:

Lol, yea, it was starting to piss me off, because that car had been broken for months on end, and when I finaly got it to move, it was screwed! I was all like... dammit! Lmao.

i would just LOVE 2 smash them with a hammer when they dont act right...LOL..i have no patience with things like that ...your lookin so hard 2 find something wrong or out of place and its so simple and right there in front of u...i guess thats why i chose the name..:D

I feel your pain man! I hate it when I get the wire in the right place, and then the dam thing moves! ARG! Lmao :p

..if they could make a bit with out tiny wires like that ppl like us would have alot LESS stress in our lives!..:)

Yea, but then those big wires wouldn't stay on the pcb and other stuff as well as those little wires do!

(woohoo! 1000th post! :D)

..yes but they would be harder 2 brake tho..

I guess you have a point, but not with the way I solder my wires on.

how do u do it ?..:confused: do u have a secret i should know about?..:confused:

Not really, I take the coating off the wire, then lay it down and apply solder. Most wires break off this way for me. Depends on what it is used for, and what position the wires are in and stuff.... It's confusing.