Paperclip RC Car Body Clips

Quick simple body clips for your RC Hobby Car. These are useful when you've lost yours or in my case the guy i bought the car off didn't give them to me... or in general just don't have them.

Or you could make them just cuz u feel like it? Whatever your reason, here it is. : D

(BTW First i'ble)

Step 1 Supplies and Equipment

You'll need:
Paperclip(s)
Needle Nose Pliers (normal pliers would work as well but it'd be harder to maneuver)

Optional:
Sharpies *You could use any permanent marker but then they wouldn't be as cool |:
Felt Tip Pen
Ruler
A clean workspace

Comments

[saransaleen]

Nice car is that a traxaas slash 1:18 rc car? sweet!!

[WhiteTech]

and it's a nitro

[WhiteTech]

Nope, doesn't look Traxxas, it looks 1/10, and a StadiumTruck, not the Traxxas Slash 1/16 ShortCourse

[sharlston]

Great ible check out my rc ibles too :)
Checkout my youtube channel too:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mrfishin101?feature=mhum

[quitit]

Great instructable welll done

[king kolton9]

whar are these for

[Goodhart]

I would have thought that the paper clips would be a great fix while out and about, but once home, I would rather replace with the more expensive and better tempered real thing.   Any stress that bends a paper clip (since it is untempered) will leave it bent. A tempered clip should spring back and hold better.  But then, maybe there is little continuous stress on these, and more quick shock type stress :-)

 

[Kryptonite]

With RC carring this has got to be the most annoying thing when you're driving through the track and by the time you get to the end of the race you're 2 or 3 body clips down. Thanks for the instructable! I've got a "Touring car" though and yours looks like an off roader, how often do you loose this type of clip?

[pyroten]

Yea it's a 1/10 nitro off road buggy. I got it for 190 down from 300 but only cuz my cousin works at a hobby store and somehow managed to get it down : D Yea i'v lost heaaps of these and i usually kept buying them but this is soo much easier for me. yea i was thinking of gettin an electric touring car like the ta-05. it's preety generic but i was thinking of hopping it up?

[Kryptonite]

I'm not entirely sure what I have and I can't check right now because I don't have them with me. Between my dad and I we have 2 nitro off roaders and 4 touring cars. They're completely different to handle but if you can drive on you can drive the other. Touring cars are great fun, but get a body that's nice and sturdy. I bought a real swish car and ended up spending a fortune on it for broken bits and then gave it to my dad, and now I've got another one that's never had to had a piece replaced and it was only 3/4 the price of the other one originally. One thing I learnt is to watch where every thing is placed on the body, my dad stuffed up a $300 speed controller because he clipped it against a corner, and it was on the outside section of the body. Another anoyance is that I've currently got a cheapo speed controller and I bought a really good one that's double the size, but it won't go in due to the space where it can go. One last tip, don't buy Venom batteries. Apart from that I hope you get a good car!

[Furball_Fidelis]

If you want a good on road touring car electric 1/10...get a HPI Cup racer. or HPI E-10 if you want a shaft driven..or get a Sprint 2 if you'd like a belt driven...

I own an E-10 Gran Turismo Edition...

only thing with the E-10s...they come with friction shocks and not fluid filled ones...all cars I listed come RTR and both are around $200...

[Kryptonite]

I haven't taken mine  for a drive in a while, there's no where close by with a nice flat surface like a car park.

[leech223]

Why should we not use 'Venom' batteries?

[Kryptonite]

My good friend Al bought a number of them, to have them all die within a month. Seems the packaging of them is quite weak in a fair few of the battery models.

[dudejetfighter]

l have a mgt but i wreaked it, and i don't have the money to fix it :(

[Kryptonite]

That's the sad thing about RC cars, slightly expencive if you don't use it... perfectly.

[pyroten]

haha yea okay. Dw ill keep away from venom batteries ^:) Yea i'v been talking through cars for a few weeks now with the guys at the hobby stores and i recon ill go with the TA-05. But when looking at it from your point of view ^{like placement and such} it's a bit sketch ^D: so ill look into it. Thanks for the advise ^:)

[Kryptonite]

No probs, tell me when you get it and send a pic if you could, I'd like to see what you get!

[pyroten]

i got it. a TA-05 in Raybrig. I finished building it yesterday but i haven't done the body yet. well i started cutting it out. ^D: typical me didn't cut straight again and i'v made abit of a mess of the body. It's not that noticable but if you look. haha oh well. always room 4 improvement. ^:) ill post u a pic when i finish it off

[Kryptonite]

Haha, sounds cool, I hope it turns out alright. I'll send a picture of my dad's and mine when I get my camera to work. ^:S

[pyroten]

yay finished the body. i did a preety bad sticker job tho. next time i'm not gunna use the stickers except for the nessesary ones and do it with paint. actually my paint looks kinda wierd on the raybrig but wateva ^:)
it's orange. ill post a pic soonish

[pyroten]

haha sik ^{: D}
yea my camera's getting old as well... i only get half the pic. but ill upload sum soonish. i'v got it running it's preety sweet but my body's still not dun ^:(

[hippojoe]

Very good Why were you calling your ruler a pencil? .......or was it just a joke that didn't get?

[pyroten]

no no its a pencil obviously ^{: D}

[Patented]

Where can I get one like that?

[hippojoe]

Ok Sorry but I had to ask.

[pyroten]

haha thats fineee

[aleinlegs]

the under-glow looks really cool, can you post an instructable on how to build one?? thnx

[pyroten]

haha okay, i'll give you a shout if i get round to it

[ultrauber]

i just figured the same thing out like two weeks ago. i also have the same tablet...but my cat peed on it

[the-ruler-of-craziness]

ouch, that things a mess XD but great ible though they work perfect for my tamiya lunchbox 5*s

[pyroten]

thx.. haha yea i no aye. i'm stillll waiting for the parts ^D: but i got a TA-05 to keep my mind of things ^{: D}
the lunchbox is a 1/12 rite?

[adrian gumba]

pretty cool, where can I buy that

[pyroten]

err. were u referring to the body clips below or the car???

[lokua]

classic instructable for rc car ppl. i used to do this all the time till i broke down and bought some locking body clips (see pic). i guess u can make ur own like this too

[pyroten]

wow. how do they work ^:S

[lokua]

its more obvious when u see them im person but that looped part goes around the top of the body post so to remove them you have to pull back and up on the bent end to release the loop. i recommend zip tie and fuel tubing body clip handles for these too.

[ravvip0]

i found that if you bend the largest circle of the body clip up at an angle so it looks kind of like this in profile \____ its much easier to put on/take off if you have stubby fingers and if they are tight :D

[pyroten]

yea ur rite. it does make it heaps easier

[wupme]

Oh my god, there has to be some sort of genious price you should recieve. I loose so many of those things... if i saved the money for them i would have another RC Car by now... I still don't understand how i lose them in the first place. Thats gotta be the same thing like the socks who dissapear in the washing machine. There's gotta be some sort of black hole somehwere, because otherwise there would be mountains of those clips where i drive.