haha, ball end hex bits are the leading cause of stripped hex screws for me!!

Hmm, seems that's too narrow to put a normal 2s battery in then, at least in the standard orientation. Perhaps the lipo on its side would work, though that would raise the cg back up a bit...or maybe some dremel work.

when i think of phillips head hardware, i think cheap-o chinese himoto type stuff (dominus, HK stuff, etc). while many traxxas haters think of them in the same class as the aforementioned, they most certainly are not and a real hobby grade vehicle should have hex heads, preferably metric.

just one guy's opinion...

I have also had success swapping SAE and Metric bits out as well as using a drop of CA Gel to back out a stripped head.

I have since bought tips that I can fit into my impact driver. That's how I am able to break screws from used vehicles that I have bought from folks who used too much thread lock

These tips don't work nearly as well with Phillips head screws

is it wrong that i keep debating whether to report the OP for being in the wrong forum? i mean, we do have a nitro specific forum.

i must say i agree that this is simply the wrong hobby for phillips head screws...

Man, Traxxas never fails to give it's vehicles a lot of motor.

My lhs has these in already. Compared to the lightness of the 'lectric slash, this thing is really heavy. I haven't got to drive one though, although I really assume it'll just spin out because of all dat motor.

Where did this truck go? I was looking foreword to seeing this thing run but the video is completely gone.

Well... I noticed that JANG was getting very close to 1,000 vids on the youtube channel; then he deleted a few.

Just a guess... But I think he's got something planned that may register as epic.

I just went back to page 1 of this and clicked the video and watched it, I don't think there's anything sinister other than YouTube maybe not being spot on.