Hi all,
Just received my new KM 30.5 Baja yesterday via Dan at King Motor RC.
Pictures hardly do this thing justice. I was amazed at the size and heft of it. Initial impressions were mostly positive. Upon taking it out of the box, the left front wheel fell right off. Looks like the E-clip that holds it on was never attached. Thankfully, a generous assortment of spare parts are included and I was able to fix that right up.
While waiting for the work day to end, all manner of productivity for the day ended as my desk became an impromptu workbench
Gave everything a good going over and was very pleased with the quality of assembly and tightness of all screws.
Finally got it home and decided to fire it up in my garage. That proved to be a mistake as I shut it down a minute later, ears bleeding. I have years of nitro experience but this thing is LOUD! The motor is great. Fired up on the second pull and settled into a very nice idle. Shut it down, put all the batteries on their respective chargers and called it a night.
Finally got to run it up and down my street a bit this morning. There's a nice wide open dirt lot at the end of my street but I don't really want to go crazy until the rest of the goodies come in. I've got some outerwears pre filters on the way, extra receiver for my 3PM as the stock radio, even though it's 2.4Ghz, seems pretty junky, and a killswitch. I'll probably leave the stock servos in until they go, they actually seem to be pretty powerful.
I do have a couple of issues. The screw that holds the tuned pipe tab to the back of the chassis was impossibly tight. I destroyed a nice allen wrench and rounded out the screw trying to get this thing out. Applied heat thinking maybe it was locktited, but I cannot get this thing to budge. As a result, I cannot install the aluminum rear bumper that comes with it, leaving the pipe pretty exposed. I'll probably have to attack it with a dremel to get it out.
Also, it shipped with the air filter dry. This particular version includes an alloy filter housing and I cannot for the life of me loosen this thing to get the filter foam out to oil it. I don't want to do anything more than just lazily drive it around in front of my house until I can get it properly oiled. Any secrets to loosening this thing?
Just received my new KM 30.5 Baja yesterday via Dan at King Motor RC.
Pictures hardly do this thing justice. I was amazed at the size and heft of it. Initial impressions were mostly positive. Upon taking it out of the box, the left front wheel fell right off. Looks like the E-clip that holds it on was never attached. Thankfully, a generous assortment of spare parts are included and I was able to fix that right up.
While waiting for the work day to end, all manner of productivity for the day ended as my desk became an impromptu workbench
Gave everything a good going over and was very pleased with the quality of assembly and tightness of all screws.Finally got it home and decided to fire it up in my garage. That proved to be a mistake as I shut it down a minute later, ears bleeding. I have years of nitro experience but this thing is LOUD! The motor is great. Fired up on the second pull and settled into a very nice idle. Shut it down, put all the batteries on their respective chargers and called it a night.
Finally got to run it up and down my street a bit this morning. There's a nice wide open dirt lot at the end of my street but I don't really want to go crazy until the rest of the goodies come in. I've got some outerwears pre filters on the way, extra receiver for my 3PM as the stock radio, even though it's 2.4Ghz, seems pretty junky, and a killswitch. I'll probably leave the stock servos in until they go, they actually seem to be pretty powerful.
I do have a couple of issues. The screw that holds the tuned pipe tab to the back of the chassis was impossibly tight. I destroyed a nice allen wrench and rounded out the screw trying to get this thing out. Applied heat thinking maybe it was locktited, but I cannot get this thing to budge. As a result, I cannot install the aluminum rear bumper that comes with it, leaving the pipe pretty exposed. I'll probably have to attack it with a dremel to get it out.
Also, it shipped with the air filter dry. This particular version includes an alloy filter housing and I cannot for the life of me loosen this thing to get the filter foam out to oil it. I don't want to do anything more than just lazily drive it around in front of my house until I can get it properly oiled. Any secrets to loosening this thing?
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