Thanks guys. I'll make an appropriate placed question about my Tiger 1 in a few, keep this about me and such..
Previous R/C has been car/truck based with small ventures in boating, micro heli's and Control Line Airplanes (.049 stuff). I'm 32 and received my first homemade R/C truck in 1989 built from a Grasshoper and plate alum. chassis.
Love the smell of Nitro and the speed of Elec., mainly built, raced, maintained, hot-rodded and bashed 1/18, 1/10 and 1/8 scales. Occasional other smaller scales were fun toys and tinkers.. Still have quite a bit of them also Revo 3.3 (full tilt Basher), 2-Hyper 7's, Ultra LX1 Force .26, Slash 4x4 Brushless (Mmmmm..), TC3 F.T. (custom rally), NTC3 (.18 tire killer), 2-MLST2's (mini fun), Mini-T Pro (carpet queen), Micro-T Bl (tile slayer), TRX Blue Eagle (mint), 32" 1980's Dumas wood speedboat .46Nitro (old), MRP 42" Fountain Elec. boat, and a few more but blagh. Lol. You get the picture if you were into that aspect of the hobby.
It works exactly as most have described prior to my hands on. In other words, it doesn't work. 
Lol. So I had spent some time as a guest of this site and now saw fit to join your forum. Excellent articles for the kits available and their conversions! 
Looking forward to turning my "toy" into a more ideal hobby-grade "toy". Hopefully. Or it'll be a basis for a second build-up. 
Harry.
...with that said they are easy to fix if you have the mind for it... and accessing parts is no where near the hassle of other brands....I wish you luck...as your adventure has already begun
