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Kingkong lurker (1/10 Sherp) buyer beware
Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 9:44 am
by Shagnifico
In a nutshell don’t buy. It will break on day 1 and it will take extensive diy scratch building to get it to work. If you really want an rc sherp save your money and by one from customrc. I bought it because it looked like an ideal amphibious platform for my 4g lte cloudrc system. The power train is bonkers and fatally flawed.
Re: Kingkong lurker (1/10 Sherp) buyer beware
Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 1:14 pm
by Will01Capri
Interesting, but could you share more details, pictures, videos so others can see what you mean?
I myself have designed my own Sherp(ish) model which is in 1/16 scale and uses belt drive for the wheels and has loads of torque
Re: Kingkong lurker (1/10 Sherp) buyer beware
Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 11:13 pm
by tankme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kouwYEmaQaE
From what I've seen most of the KingKong products are junk.
Re: Kingkong lurker (1/10 Sherp) buyer beware
Posted: Thu May 11, 2023 10:56 am
by Shagnifico
https://youtu.be/gmqlGj8-bZw
I replied to this video. My comment is pinned at the top. I would be very surprised if anybody today owns one that runs.
Re: Kingkong lurker (1/10 Sherp) buyer beware
Posted: Thu May 11, 2023 6:50 pm
by Shagnifico
This lurker is belt driven which was nice, but it didn’t save the transmission. It uses a slip differential with 3 540 brushed motors 45T. One for steering, two for drive. It’s geared too high. The thing could haul ass in a straight line. Which is dumb since the full scale sherp has a top speed of like 25mph. It definitely needed more gear reduction. A good old steel gear heng long gear box would have been better I think.