{"id":5426,"date":"2024-06-16T14:54:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=5426"},"modified":"2024-06-16T15:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T15:01:49","slug":"techtip-step-screws-room-for-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=5426","title":{"rendered":"Techtip: step screws room for play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dampers mounted with step screws tend to wobble on the Tamiyas. One easy way to reduce the room for play is to cut a small piece of plastic straw and use it on the step screw:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.42.15.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5430\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.42.15.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.42.15.jpeg 960w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.42.15-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.42.15-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.42.15-675x900.jpeg 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.42.15-480x640.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.43.47.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5429\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.43.47.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.43.47.jpeg 960w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.43.47-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.43.47-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.43.47-675x900.jpeg 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.43.47-480x640.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can even wrap around the straw piece with plastic tape to further tighten things up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.47.38.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5428\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.47.38.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.47.38.jpeg 960w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.47.38-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.47.38-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.47.38-675x900.jpeg 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.47.38-480x640.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.53.14.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5427\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.53.14.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.53.14.jpeg 960w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.53.14-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.53.14-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.53.14-675x900.jpeg 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-14-at-08.53.14-480x640.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do remember you should never make it too tight &#8211; the mounting point has movement so it little of room around the step screw is still needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dampers mounted with step screws tend to wobble on the Tamiyas. One easy way to reduce the room for play is to cut a small piece of plastic straw and use it on the step screw: You can even wrap around the straw piece with plastic tape to further tighten things up: Do remember you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5426"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}