e312: Full Build & Thoughts of The Team Associated RC10 40th Anniversary Edition

[@jonthomas8487]

You forgot to show the part where 4 of the e-clips shot across the room

[@RCRetro]

LOL.... I only lost one this time ...

[@jonthomas8487]

@@RCRetro me as well. I found an extra one from when I lost 5 building my turbo Optima kit and had to buy some extra

[@toolman8269]

After 40 years, I finally have an RC10! I envied the kids with them back in the day, but now I have one! Stunning job on the body, especially the window frame in matte black. I've bookmarked this video so I can watch it again when I do my build. Great job on the videography as well. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.

[@SidcupRC]

The window frame was a nice touch! 👌

[@RCRetro]

Thank you for the compliment. Well appreciated.

[@ninooliastro2285]

I absolutely love it! Great job with the flat black and under coat of the body!

[@jim52970]

The matte black roll cage was a very nice touch and attention to detail.

[@RCACTIONAUSTRALIA]

Great touch with the window pillars

[@MadBeeRC]

EPIC!!!! Great job Ari you absolutely nailed that!

[@Kieren2742]

I loved this video, I rember the day that one of these showed up at the track. I was shocked and fascinated by the gearbox I wished you talked about the ball diffs more. Also I was shocked that you did not use Tamiya Flat clear on the roll bars to give the matt black look its an amazing product and I paint all my re re Roll bars this way. Love your work

[@RCRetro]

Thanks.. glad you enjoyed the video...

[@akaduy255]

I just couldn't pull the trigger on JRX2 scaled down version and missed the bus on this one. But my Bruiser came in the mail yesterday 😛. Your videos aren't helping my bank account. Awesome job on the build looks perfect.

[@poorboysrc]

Great build, Ari. I can tell by your enthusiasm that you were stoked to finally get to build one straight from the box. Cheers dude!

[@AddamsPlayground]

It looks great Ari and I do really like the flat black on the roll bars, it sets it off nicely! Still on the fence about building mine. If I do it won't be right now as I just built the CC. Yours looks great and glad you enjoyed the build!

[@RCKickschannel]

It's all you Ari!! Looks lovely

[@markn2615]

Outstanding, Sir. Well executed.

[@msimcox2]

I watched this whole video with a smile on my face, it brought me back to Dec 31, 1986, I was 15 and one of my friends who could drive we went to Hub Hobby in Richfield, MN before they closed early for New Years Eve. We went back to his house because he already had a RC10 so he had the tools, and I sat there in his shed/workshop and I built that thing. It took me about 10 hours and I finished at around 1-2AM, and we both took our cars out in the snow and zipped them around until the batteries ran out. I pretty much stopped the hobby when everything became RtR because for me 99% of the fun was building them and (unfortunately for my wallet) breaking them and upgrading parts just so I could tear them down and rebuild them. I want to get several of these now so I can build them. I do hope more manufacturers do start building these kits again. I gave away all of my tools and about 6 cars to my cousin when I moved, but unfortunately another one of my cousins came over to get it so she could bring it all down to him in Florida, and I was not there when she came so she didn't take my HPI rolling tool cart because she didn't know that it was part of it, and that all ended up either going to a couple guys who came and picked everything over to resell it or it went to 1-800-gotjunk which saddens me. But now I have the itch again...

[@lo2713]

Love the body, nice touch with the black around the windows aswell. Im halfway through my build but the body wont get that much attention. It going on the track so no point as it will get some battle damage 😁 i just wish they used metric screws like everyone else in this day and age. But, i can understand that they wanted to try to keep it original as possible.

[@barrycheesemore2928]

Wow, you've done an awesome job of that RC10, it looks fantastic!! One thing I think Tamiya do better though are driver figures, the one in my Kyosho Ultima Legendary Series is not very nice, but apart from that it's superb. Great video as always!!

[@RCRetro]

TBH.. I very rarely do Tamiya Driver Figures... One thing Tamiya better do better is.... Go all out for their 50 year anniversary... like Kyosho did for 60 and what Team Associated is doing right now.....

[@waynemattera8552]

Looks beautiful!!

[@djbikemanhendricks9316]

I wanted this when I was 7 years old when it 1st came out. Nice to see it being brought back.

[@jpopp999]

Beautiful job!

[@quietrc]

Excellent job. Great work on the body, too. Definitely stealing the roll bars as matte idea. You got me thinking about the bottom screws: I think there’s someone that makes gold Philips head screws with the correct 100°(?) angle. Might search for those…

[@James-bristol]

It should of come with bearings all the stick we give tamiya lots of people will race these in the iconic cup ,besides that it looks a lovely bit of kit.

[@RCRetro]

Agreed. The OG RC10 didn't come with ball bearings. As AE released kits they had kits without and with bearing at a more costly price.

[@roberttierney9284]

Great job on the RC10. I was not in the market for one. But I think you inspired me to get one

[@TotalDohnut]

Car looks great, mostly excited that this kit means parts availability for the ones already in my garage. On the right track surface they still run great.

[@goldenmanuever1176]

We all wanna know two washers or four washers for the front body post😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@RCRetro]

LMAO you know what... I built it with 2 in the front and two in the rear but then I took the body posts off in the end and used velcro to keep the body on.

[@goldenmanuever1176]

@@RCRetro still looks great chief. A lot of debate over those washers. Us Americans aren’t good at manuals…haha.

[@powersmodelgarage]

Very nice. Looks just like I remember it 👍

[@GregLanz]

Great build and thanks for sharing that. I've been procrastinating putting mine together but now it's finally time

[@roccomarcelli821]

Came out awesome! Love the body!

[@coygtrc]

Yep, enjoyed the video 😉 Great job, well done. Nice touch with the pillars 👀🤝

[@righn3494]

Way to get her done so fast Ari! Now I don't have to build mine, looks sweet man!

[@j0hnnykn0xv1lle]

Great Job man, the rollbars were done just how I would have done them. Looks great that way Kevin!

[@neonnoodle1169]

Scared me there.....I was like, wait...I've been doing window masks wrong all these years? Thanks for explaining what you did!

[@Iamfirebird360]

I'm torn on whether or not I need this kit. I never had it as a kid or adult but love it. I just ordered the rc10t which I did play with as a teen and am very nostalgic for.

[@RCRetro]

Always go with the nostalgic connection first... which in your case is the RC10T... Glad you pre-ordered on. But its not bad having a rerelease of the "one" that started it all for Team Associated... Plus you can display on the cardboard box stand like me lol....

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

I had an original Cadillac chassis as a kid but never got the rest of the parts to put it together. Someday when I get my life back together I’ll get a gold pan rc10

[@bcastromusic]

nice! great job on the body too. I still have PTSD from building that gearbox w/ my dad when I was 14. I honestly still remember it was a crap show. Mine was never as free-running as it should have been. The gold really is not that close to the OG but I like it, I'm fortunate to have a few originals so don't mind. I'm going to build mine with my 10 yo son

[@Heathcliff_hensel]

yeah that gearbox sucked, i use to spend hours with a jewelers file trying to deburr the gears.

[@abefavela6806]

Great Video

[@blzr2bull]

Epic!! 💪🏼💪🏼😎

[@rcicons4915]

Looks great!

[@irritablearchitect]

Looks great, Ari.

[@7philly5]

Hope they release a rc10t next

[@anthonymiller8979]

Nice build. I remember when the originals came out. Driver figures are troublesome for me. I know everyone adds them but for some reason I just don't like figures in my cars. Even as a child (I'm 68 now) my interest is the car itself, not about a figure inside.

[@greglarson6137]

The RC10T Classic is available on Team Associated site for preorder!

[@RCRetro]

Thanks. Just pre ordered…. Hooray

[@Meenie66]

I hope they do another batch of them cos in Aus there was fark all and I had too many bills at the time to get one...

[@grindking3913]

Nicely put together video. Do you feel the color of the white parts looks good as it is or will a coffee bath be in my future?

[@ahhobby2527]

Beautiful, absolutely love it. Great job! Anyway what was the song in the beginning? I think the instrumental sounded familiar but I struggled to identify it 😣😅

[@smithp573]

Wait, what, they re-released it again? I still haven't built the re-released six gear I got before Covid.

[@DavidTurner-gp4hu]

Very nice 👍👍👍

[@LukesVintageRC]

Yeah man this turned out great as I thought it would. Wish me luck with mine as I got nasty can of camel paint so gotta strip it and redo🙄, Wish you well bud. ❤

[@RCRetro]

Oh sorry to hear that about the spray can. Interestingly... I had a can of Camel yellow that was probably 5 years old sitting in a draw. I used that one by warming it up and shaking it for a long time. the paint didn't come out smooth at first but the more I put on it became more solid if that makes sense.

[@SidcupRC]

Looks like a nice kit. Just wondering if you greased the gears? Cheers 🍻

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

How’s the house coming along Ari??

[@RCRetro]

Engineering plans and permitting is done. Waiting for insurance $... and then hopefully work starts not long after that. Thanks for asking.

[@danjaz2000]

Great job. Looks super clean. I think we can all agree we need you to cut our bodies and paint them. Clean lines 👍. What’s your opinion on the numbers on this “ limited edition “ kit? Do you think they will sell out? Or have any capital gain? Or do you think they will sell maybe 5000 real quick and have 4999 sitting on shelves for a few years?

[@CucumberManW]

You put the wrong thrust washer on first on the sliper clutch shaft, it should have been the one with the smaller hole. Sorry. Love it anyway.

[@RCRetro]

@@CucumberManW wow you are really paying attention. Thanks for catching that. I don’t plan on running this but I’d still like to have it assembled correctly. Thanks I’ll put that on the list of things to fix. Thanks 🙏

[@CucumberManW]

@@RCRetro no problem your welcome and have an excellent day.

[@JT-fw7gp]

It’s seems that no bearing is included, right?

[@sonofsega816]

Did they change the hardware to metric or is it standard like the OG?

[@deltachuck4488]

Outstanding work!!! I suck at painting bodies. If I send you mine with all the stickers, can you paint it for a fee?

[@RCRetro]

I wish I could but unfortunately I dont have the time. I'm very sorry.

[@alphawlff]

What about parts support? I still have my CE from back in the day.

[@RCRetro]

I don’t know what team associated plans are for putting out parts. I know for the CC classic clear they put out some parts. Maybe they will do the same for the 40th however there are many aftermarket companies that make parts for the RC 10. If you look at my videos I put out a video about two months ago as a resource guide with all the aftermarket companies that produce parts for Team associated RC 10. Basically you could build an RC from scratch with all the parts produced from these companies

[@rockncoop665]

Unfortunately losi can’t rere the cars in 1:10 because all the molds were destroyed after the cars released

[@RCRetro]

If they were able to recreate the parts with molds in 1/16 why couldn't they do it for 1/10?

[@rockncoop665]

@@RCRetro I honestly have no idea

[@gusseisern1151]

What Color Tone did you use?

[@RCRetro]

Tamiya PS-19 camel yellow back in Tamiya ps1 white and then black

[@kiwimark3875]

Where did you pick this up in Aus? None of the normal big players seemed to have it, just some smaller shops charging ~$650-700

[@RCRetro]

I pre-ordered mine directly from team associated.

[@JeepsCafe]

Looks awesome! What is that ball cup tool called? I want to get one.

[@danjaz2000]

Australia had them this week in shops. They were around $650 aus. I did see 2 offered on eBay from a aus hobby shop on Tuesday night. With a 150 voucher available. By the time I checked other hobby shops.(2 minutes max) they were gone

[@joedipietro2559]

That's a shame, I'm in Australia too. Just shows you have to pounce fast when you see something you want to buy even if it means importing direct from overseas. Or the alternative then pay the $650-$700 or whatever it was advertised for. No point trying to get a bargain when this buggy is so limited in numbers. They will probably be around advertised on gumtree and eBay for a while though at a considerable mark up in price. Are you absolutely certain Associated don't have anymore. But yeah what a beauty, absolutely stunning. Certainly very vintage in its build up. Different from any Tamiya or Kyosho I've ever seen. Awesome buggy.👌👍

[@kiwimark3875]

@RCRetro oh I tried that but thought it was only US or Canada delivery

[@catywumpas]

Doesn’t come with build instructions, bought this for my son, what a punch in the gut. Thanks team associate way to FU to your customers…. Terrible

[@mrdavester]

i wanted one as a kid, but this re-release is just too pricey for me in cdn $$

[@bradkalman2353]

I would have put ball bearings in it and run it. I would race it to since you have access to a track.

[@joedipietro2559]

This is unbelievably beautiful and awesome. I've never seen one of these up close although I've seen they are recently rereleased and I must say I'm impressed. Very different from the usual Tamiya and Kyosho. Certainly very vintage and American. Completely different from any Tamiya I've built. Is this going to be used or only for the shelf? I would have difficulty deciding too. It's so beautiful but also to nice to get dirty. 🤔 Congratulations man it's beautiful 👍👌

[@morejelloplease]

i'm having binding issues with the transmission build, step 3, the oilite bushings are causing one side of the tranny to bind when i tighten the final hex screws that attach the transmission case to the motor plate. anyone else having this issue? the screws can't be more than finger tight or the transmission won't spin freely on one side. If i continue the build and attempt to drive, I can see the car either pulling to the right severely, or causing excessive wear on the differential rings. bearings would solve this problem but are there even any bearing kits available? If i email team associated it will prob take forever to get replacement parts. so much for building this thing, i should have left it in the damn box :(

[@morejelloplease]

I found the issue, the axle drive gear internal retaining clip is rubbing on the drive gear pivot, yes it was seated correctly and is flush with the gear. there is a lip on the pivot and it's all scraped up from the snap ring rubbing on it. you can see where it went from black to copper like scrape marks. the bushing was pressed in flush as well. this is a factory defect in my eyes and who knows if i'll ever find replacement parts or if AE will just send me another Bag C to see if it has better quality parts inside. would bearings fix this? do you still use the snap ring even with bearings? Pretty disappointed right now.

[@CucumberManW]

Hi mine is fine. Please take your transmission apart and double check everything. If you followed this biuld he actually made a mistake putting the thrust bearings on the long sliper shaft. Please take it apart. I hope this helps. I'm a mechanic and it helps.