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July 26th, 2010 
admin Build Your Own Radio Control Car
- Build a remote-controlled racecar with electronic roadmap
- Seven remote-control functions (operates at 27.9 MHz)
- Race against friends once built
- No soldering required
- For ages 12 and up.
This is a Build Your Own Radio Control Race Car from Elenco®. Suitable for Ages 10 & Older. FEATURES: The idea behind this kit is to expand your understanding of basic transmitters, receivers and electronic switching theories. As you build the vehicle from the ground up, you will learn all about gears, motors, printed circuit boards & integrated circuits. Durable plastic buggy-type car body. Full-function, single channel transmitter navigates the car forward, backward, left and right. Light bul
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(out of 7 reviews)
List Price: $ 37.95
Price: $ 26.17
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This car is a well made product. The assemble is easy. You can see how the motors work. There is no gluing, the screws and wires are easy to tighten.
The only problem is that the right front wheel came out of it’s place. So I switched the screw with the other one and it seems to stay.
I would reccomend this toy if your kids are into cars. This was a very fun toy for me.
Teddy S.
Review by petey for Build Your Own Radio Control Car
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Built with teenager within about 2 hours. Great education value. Worked OK but not sure how much abuse it will take before breaking. But then again, did not buy for durability.
Review by S. Castro-Miller for Build Your Own Radio Control Car
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I’ve built many kits and done lots of repair work on electrical items large and small over the years. I read the reviews and I ordered three of these for my boys for Christmas. We put them together today. It takes closer to 3 hours to put one together. No 12 year old without extensive electrical experience can work with the very tiny wires – my adept 13 year old broke two wires and I broke one of those twice trying to correct his mistake. One of the circuit boards was dead out of the box. Most frustratingly, you CANNOT use this with your friends as advertised because the cars all broadcast on the same frequency. The value of putting this together was lost when one boy had no car at the end and the other two had to run their cars in different areas. Very frustrating.
Review by J. Helgason for Build Your Own Radio Control Car
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This product was a lot of fun to put together. That’s the point: to put together. Once it is put together it’s not much fun. It’s slow and doesn’t drive straight. There is a steering adjustment, but it doesn’t help much. No matter what it veers off to the right. Also, it runs on 4 AA batteries that completely drain after 30 minutes.
One problem that I had is that it is very picky with batteries. It ran with 4 cheap off-brand TV remote control alkaline batteries, but with 4 brand new Duracell alkalines, it wouldn’t even run. I thought maybe the batteries were defective, but they were able to run in another electronic device just fine. Also, you can’t use rechargeable batteries in the car because you need the proper 1.5v per battery to correctly operate the RF receiver (6v) whereas rechargeable NiMh batteries only output 1.2v each or 4.8v total.
Also, I had to break out the soldering iron to connect the wires. This kit wants you to wrap the wires around each other and stuff them inside non-shrink tubing. That doesn’t work very well. Best bet is to solder them.
All in all, it was a decent fun evening putting the car together. It won’t last long and it is SMALL. I wouldn’t buy it again.
Review by Andrea K. Padilla for Build Your Own Radio Control Car
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Took a couple hours over a couple evenings, our 10 yr old son had a good time seeing how the car went together.