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Hi, I’m Paul (or Paulie). I grew up in NJ and earned the nickname Paulie. I used to hate the name with a passion, but I have decided to embrace it.
Enjoy my blog about building family time through RC car projects, motorcycles/cars, and outdoor travel. Sometimes I even throw in some life lessons.
I enjoy communicating and teaching to prevent people from paying tuition to the School of Hard Knocks. I have earned many PhDs (Pathfinder Head-hurting Dummy) from that school! I hope to help you so I can cut your tuition bill. You’re Welcome! I don’t focus on what went wrong, but I teach what goes correct. There might be a few hard hits along the way, but it’s just another PhD, right?
Grab a chair, sip some coffee, and enjoy my quirky humor. Who knows, you might even learn something along the way, or give a helpful pointer in the comments! Here you will receive my honest recommendations that help families get outside, build things, and enjoy life together.
Tired of constantly servicing brushes and chasing unreliable speed? When an accidental warranty mix-up from Horizon Hobby landed a brushless speed control on my doorstep, it was the push I needed to finally ditch the brushed setup on our Arrma Fury.
In this post, we dive into the messy, hilarious process of upgrading to a Spektrum 4000KV 550 brushless motor—complete with transmitter calibration mix-ups, backward servo plugs, and a chassis that now pulls full-on wheelies in the dirt. If you are on the fence about whether to make the jump from brushed to brushless, grab a wrench and find out why the upgrade is well worth the chaos.