Remote Control Car Toys
One of the most popular types of remote control toys are remote control car toys which are also called RC cars, radio controlled cars, or remote control cars. Remote control car toys are one of the most popular remote control toys and can be either:
• Electric
• Nitro
• Gas
• Mini
Electric remote control car toys - these battery operated cars may have a shorter run time then their counterparts and some may think they are not as fast. But I'll have to beg to differ.
I puRChased one for one of my nephews for a Christmas present one year and it was too fast to play with in the house! If it had hit your ankles, it would have crippled you. If (and when) he hit the wall, he cracked the body of the vehicle. It still worked and you really couldn't see the crack, but none the less it was there, letting us all know that we didn't want it to hit our feet.
"Take it outside!"
Nitro radio controlled powered toys - nitro remote control cars are not gas RC cars and do not run on gasoline. Nitro RC cars use nitro fuel which is a mixture of oil, methanol, and nitro methane. Although nitro is no where near as volatile as gasoline, it is still flammable and should be treated as such. Never use gasoline in a nitro RC car engine.
Nitro RC cars give the driver more control, have a longer run time and an unbelievable realistic sound, some even have smoke! They are also faster then electric RC cars although electric RC cars are getting faster and faster.
Nitro fuel is very expensive costing about $30 - $45 dollars a gallon. Nitro RC cars however have a much longer running time, more then electric RC cars and gas powered RC cars so that gallon of nitro will go a long way.
RC nitro powered cars are a lot messier then electric RC cars and involve a lot more work, having to be cleaned off after every use in order to increase their run life.
Many first time RC users have a problem with all that is involved with a nitro RC car however if you are so inclined, don't hesitate to explore the world of nitro radio controlled cars.
Gas powered radio controlled cars- Gas powered RC cars usually are much larger then electric RC cars and nitro powered RC cars. They are usually in the 1/5 scale size and they run on a two stroke motor. They run on a mixture of gas and oil, which is usually one small bottle of oil to about 2 ½ gallons of gas,
RC Minis - these little cars are fast and fun and come in all makes and models. Mini RC cars are most always electric - which means they run on batteries.
Radio controlled vehicles are modeled after full-size cars, trucks, boats, and aiRCraft. The scale of a radio controlled cars is its sizes compared to the real, full-size vehicle that it is modeled after. Therefore a 1:10 scale race car would be 1/10th or 10 times smaller than the size of the real thing.
Remote control car toys come in different scales such as:
1:6,
1:8,
1:10,
1:12.
Mini-Remote control car toys have a much smaller size scales such as.
1:28
1:64.
Because the scale of the remote control vehicles are relative to the full-size vehicles they represent, two vehicles of the same scale may be very different in size to each other. A 1:8 scale sports car will be much smaller than a 1:8 Army tank because a full-size sports car is much smaller than a full-size tank.
The terms scale model, scale RC or large scale RC not only describes a scaled down model of a real vehicle, it also means that the RC model is an authentic realistic replica in the style of the body, the paint job and the RC cars performance.
Nitro RC vehicles and gas powered vehicles are much more expensive then electric powered remote controlled vehicles.
Many first time RC users have a problem with all that is involved with a nitro RC car however if you are so inclined, don't hesitate to explore the world of RC nitro powered cars.
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