Ruined Estima Body !

Look what happened to my Estima when soaked in brake fluid. The quality of Aoshima's plastic is not really up to much, its so brittle whereas Tamiya's is a good "solid" plastic. I was taking this out of the fluid now and again rubbing it with a toothbrush, i heard tiny cracking noises now and again but noticed no breakage. I then changed the fluid, bought a little higher grade as not much was happening. popped it back in for a few hours and this is what happened. Well, now now ive a load of Estima bits hanging around with no body to use.
Later, Mike. :smokin:

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just follow the instructions on this page and get you a replacement body.

HLJ Parts Page (http://www.hlj.com/faq/q41.html)

just follow the instructions on this page and get you a replacement body.

HLJ Parts Page (http://www.hlj.com/faq/q41.html)

OH !!! thanks a lot my friend...............

Later, Mike. :smokin:

What kind of brake fluid? My friend uses Castrol Super Clean in the purple bottle, and it only gives him trouble when the car has laquer-based paint on it. Even then it doesn't eat the plastic.

i only see red X...

Mike, which DOT of brake fluid you use? Dot 3 or Dot 4? I am trying to remove of the paint of your kits, I was kind of frustrated that it will crack the UCF21 body. :uhoh:

Joe

Shit i dont know, and iv'e just got to work. It will have to wait until tomorrow. I wasnt aware of this dot 3, dot 4 thing until i started this thread.

Later, Mike. :smokin: